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When I get asked about what laptop to buy:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-buy-the-right-laptop-for-you excerpt: BUYING A LAPTOP is an exercise in confusion. Even if you know what everything means and know exactly what you want, finding it can be difficult. Heck, just navigating the manufacturers’ websites to locate the model you want is frustrating. We hope this guide will help you navigate the morass of modern laptops. Below […]

How to Protect Yourself (and Your Loved Ones) From AI Scam Calls

AI tools are getting better at cloning people’s voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips. excerpt: YOU ANSWER A random call from a family member, and they breathlessly explain how there’s been a horrible car accident. They need you to send money right now, […]

How to Remove Your Info From Google With the ‘Results About You’ Tool

You can soon set up alerts for whenever your home address, phone number, or email address appears in Search. excerpt:   IN 2022, GOOGLE launched the “Results about you” tool to help people remove personal info from the company’s search results. With billions of searches happening daily on Google, finding your private phone number or home address […]

Security News This Week: A New Attack Reveals Everything You Type With 95 Percent Accuracy

excerpt: “IT’S BEEN A busy week here on the WIRED Security desk, thanks to the annual Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas, where hackers and researchers reveal their latest findings. Things kicked off with a doozy. A researcher believes he’s found evidence that a series of spikes in radiation seemingly recorded by […]

Unofficial fix emerges for Windows bug abused to infect home PCs with ransomware

A cybersecurity firm has issued another unofficial patch to squash a bug in Windows that Microsoft has yet to fix, with this hole being actively exploited to spread ransomware. Rewind to October 17, and Acros Security released a small binary patch to address a flaw in Microsoft’s Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) feature. This feature is supposed to set a […]

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