TL;DR: The internet can be a scary place, but it doesn't have to be. Remain incognito on the world wide web with the Deeper Connect Mini Decentralized VPN & Firewall Hardware, and it's price-dropped to $219.97 (originally $229) right now. — Read the rest
A ransomware crime group, AlphV, nailed a financial services company called MeridianLink. When MeridianLink failed to pay up, AlphV noticed another weakness it could exploit: MeridianLink had failed to disclose the hack to its customers as is expected of it. So AlphV reported MeridianLink to the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Read the rest
Congress performer Matt Gaetz seized upon this morning's "sucker punch" drama — in which former speaker Kevin McCarthy shoved Rep. Tim Burchett with a sharp elbow — calling for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into the the former speaker. — Read the rest
TL;DR: We all have files we need to save online, but often we don't have enough space for all our important data. That's where Prism Drive Secure Cloud Storage comes in. And while a lifetime subscription usually costs $237, it's now on sale for as low as $29.97 through October 31. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: Norton 360 gives you a VPN, Antivirus, and dark web monitor to help protect yourself, and LifeLock gives you a comprehensive way to respond to identity theft if it happens. — Read the rest
After a teenager died in agony of an easily-treated illness at the Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah, local authorities in the rural area made clear there would be no legal consequences for staff or the operators of the "troubled teen" facility. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: Microsoft Windows 11 Home is necessary if you want your computer to be running with the newest operating system. — Read the rest
A 33-year-old passenger has been arrested after opening the emergency exit door of an Asiana Airlines jet carrying 200 people as it got ready to land in South Korea. Stomach-churning footage captured by what must be two different passengers shows the open door as wind rushes into the cabin, followed by a shot of the passengers gripping onto their armrests as everything from shirts to hair to seat protectors whip around (see video below, posted by CNN). — Read the rest
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TL;DR: If you're looking to take your business to the next level, a software upgrade may be in order. — Read the rest
In 2018, Jesse Singal wrote a controversial cover story in The Atlantic, "When a Child Says She's Trans." Focused on teens who de-transitioned, it appealed to skeptics and critics of gender-affirming care, but offered little acknowledgement to the majority of young transfolk who are happy to have affirmed their genders. — Read the rest
Welcome to $8chan! Musk and his cronies took control of Twitter not two weeks ago and the bad decisions have come so thick and fast that it's hard to keep track of them all. One such quickly-implemented product feature, selling blue checks, today resulted in a wave of verified corporate clone accounts spewing obsenity and bullshit. — Read the rest
One of the top complaints of tech users is the overwhelming amount of spam, ads, and viruses that continuously cause issues when it comes to privacy and productivity. Pesky malware and trackers are a danger to our machines and can be detrimental to their functionality if we don't get ahead of them. — Read the rest
In collaboration with Capgemini and Google, the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques comissioned an AI in 2021, to scan aerial photographs for swimming pools and cross reference the findings against real estate and tax database records to identify undeclared construction for tax assessment in 9/26 regions. — Read the rest
Sharing your taste in movies and TV can sometimes be tricky. You want the world to see why you're so invested in an odd niche film, but you know your contemporaries probably won't vibe with it. It's cool — everyone has their own favorite genre. — Read the rest
With so many businesses and organizations being run online today, it's no wonder there's tons of opportunity in cyber security. But not many aspiring professionals can successfully get past a password, let alone protect an entire company online, so learning this stuff can really give you the chance to stand out when applying for cyber security jobs, applying for raises in the industry, and more. — Read the rest
Donald Trump's wall is even flimsier than previously realized, with smuggling gangs sawing through it 3,272 times in just three years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's unpublished records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act. — Read the rest
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When you were a kid, your parents used to tell you to be wary of pickpockets and stranger danger lurking around every corner. — Read the rest
Whether we want to admit it or not, 2021 has presented truly fruitful for viruses, both of the biological and technological variety. Sure, most of the time hacks and breaches are usually on a larger scale, but they can still find you on an individual level. — Read the rest
T-Mobile's poor security has long been a disaster waiting to happen: if you couldn't remember your password, one user wrote, they'd just send it to you again as plain text. So when millions of its users' personal information went on sale online, including Social Security Numbers, the outrage was not spiced by surprise. — Read the rest
In today's web environment, it's easy to be cynical. Amid fear of breaches, hacks, and other blatant instances of outright theft on the regular, it's almost easier to assume that you will or already have been hacked and exploited than to think preventative steps are effective. — Read the rest
