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Robocalls are the phone version of stepping on a Lego barefoot. You know the pain. Your phone buzzes during dinner, during a meeting or right when you finally sit down. Then a fake bank alert, Medicare scam or "urgent" car warranty pitch tries to hijack your day.So when the Federal Communications Commission says it wants to crack down on illegal robocalls, most people will probably say, "Finally."FCC Chairman Brendan Carr […]

An impostor phoned Alight Solutions, the recordkeeper for Colgate-Palmolive's 401(k) plan, and identified herself as a Colgate employee. She asked to update the contact information on an account. Months later, the entire $751,430 balance had been sent in a single lump sum to a Las Vegas address and bank account. The real account holder, Paula Disberry, was living in South Africa.Disberry sued Alight, Colgate's benefits committee and BNY Mellon, the […]

You pull into a Home Depot or Lowe's parking lot to grab mulch, paint or a new patio chair. You probably expect security cameras near the entrance. What you may not expect is a camera that captures your license plate as you drive in or out.That is now reportedly happening at some Home Depot and Lowe's stores in Connecticut. The cameras are automated license plate readers, also known as ALPRs. […]

Google your name right now. Not on a people-finder site. Not through a data broker. Just Google. Plain search bar, your full name, nothing else. What shows up in the first 10 results may make your stomach drop.Your LinkedIn page. A Facebook profile. An address from a people-search site that Google indexed and ranked on page one. A photo from a community event you forgot you attended. A relative's obituary […]

You're going about your day when your phone buzzes. A text hits your phone. It looks official. It sounds urgent. And suddenly, you are being told you owe money for a traffic violation. That is exactly what Todd from Texas experienced. He emailed us and said:"I received this text message today. It was so baffling because I haven't lived in California for nearly a decade. I didn't click on anything […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) already shows up in your phone, your searches and plenty of apps you use every day. Now, some Silicon Valley investors are betting the machines behind those AI answers could one day run at sea.A company called Panthalassa has raised $140 million in new funding to develop and deploy autonomous, floating AI computing nodes powered by ocean waves. The Series B round brings Panthalassa's total funding to […]

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Chemotherapy can save lives, but anyone who has watched a loved one go through it knows how hard it can be. The nausea. The exhaustion. The infections. The days when even getting off the couch feels like too much.That happens because standard chemotherapy travels through the bloodstream. It attacks cancer cells but can also harm healthy cells along the way. For some pancreatic cancer patients, that approach may be changing.A […]

It starts quietly. Your phone buzzes. You see a voicemail notification. But your phone never rang. Then it happens again. And again. Before long, your voicemail inbox looks like it's under attack.That's exactly what Mike from Westport, CT, is dealing with right now. He wrote to us saying,What he is describing is something we're seeing more often. It may feel random, but there's a clear pattern behind this voicemail scam […]