August 2024
Anthony Spadafora: 2.9 Billion Hit in One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever — Full Names, Addresses and SSNs Exposed
Clifford Colby: Check if Your Social Security Number Is Included in the National Public Data Breach
Andreas Dumont: 15 open-source apps that make any PC better — for free
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2432103/the-15-best-free-tools-for-your-windows-pc.html
July 2024
Melissa Heikkilä: What are AI agents?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/05/1094711/what-are-ai-agents/
Better Business Bureau Tip: How to Spot and Avoid Identity Theft
https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/16951-bbb-tip-identity-theft
June 2024
Kim Komando: How to Stop Google from Listening to Your Every Word
Nelson Aguilar: How to Boost Your Phone Signal for Better Reception on iPhone or Android
May 2024
Jackson Chen: Google's New Built-In AI is the Biggest Update to the Browser in Over 15 Years
https://www.inverse.com/tech/google-chrome-gemini-ai-browser
Benj Edwards: The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/
Emily Stewart: Credit cards are getting smarter (How banks are using huge amounts of data to separate legitimate purchases from scams)
Mayank Parmar: Frustration Grows over Google's AI Overviews Feature, How to Disable
April 2024
Trevor Mogg: ChatGPT AI Chatbot Can Now Be Used Without an Account
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-no-longer-requires-an-account/
Zac Bowden: Microsoft reveals subscription pricing for using Windows 10 beyond October 2025, and it's not cheap
December 2023
Summer Stephan: Tech Scams are Financially Devastating Senior Citizens
The author is the District Attorney for the County of San Diego.
Tekla S. Perry: Meet the PHOLED That Is Transforming Displays
Blue phosphorescent materials fix OLED display weaknesses, improving energy efficiency and longevity.
November 2023
Dan Goodin: This Tiny Device is Sending Updated iPhones into a Never-ending DoS Loop
The Flipper Zero device can cause havoc on nearby electronic devices.
September 2023
Emma Beddington: 50 of the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Corners of the Web
Something for everyone, including: Music from selected decades and countries, Historical maps, Marine traffic, Word pronunciation, Live air traffic control chatter, Wildlife web cams, etc.
Karandeep Singh: Use Google Search like it’s 1998 to mark its 25th birthday
June 2023
Joanna Goodrich: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation
Includes a photo of 13 computer graphics pioneers, from the 1960s and 1970s. Younger generations take for granted what technology exists today, without a thought of how it came to exist.
Fernanda Lopez Halvorson: New Grant to Help More San Diegans Get Online (Free Internet Access)
The County is expanding its campaign to help more San Diegans get online.
May 2023
You can "Raise You Hand" in a Zoom Meeting by waving.
ZOOM CAN RECOGNIZE YOUR HAND RAISE GESTURE
If you enable one of its image analysis tools, Zoom itself can recognize when you physically raise your hand and turn that into a digital raised hand. Darn helpful, actually, and saves you having to remember where that “Raise Hand” button is located. To enable this feature, click on the tiny “^” adjacent to the Reactions button on your Zoom toolbar. A menu appears with one item:
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Scott J Shapiro: On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
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George Musser: How AI Knows Things No One Told It
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April 2023
Jennifer Korn: 50 Years Ago, He Made the First Cell Phone Call
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Madhumita Murgia: OpenAI’s Red Team: The Experts Hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT
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David Zipper: The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
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March 2023
David C. Brock: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
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Connie Loizos: Worldcoin, co-founded by Sam Altman, is betting the next big thing in AI is proving you are human
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Yale News: An article about the use of AI and ChatGPT in College Writing
Samantha Murphy Kelly: The Way We Work is About to Change
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This is about newer Generative AI Tools, such as the latest version of ChatGPT-4, and those planned on by Microsoft, Google and others.
An AI Revolution (Article from 3/24 Honilulu Newspaper)
Paresh Dave: ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It.
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This article describes competition and changes in search engines, due to chatbots and large language models. Microsoft plans to significantly increase their fees to companies who use Bing-based search results in products those companies offer.
February 2023
Attila Tomaschek: Change Your LastPass Password Manager, Before It's Too Late
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/change-your-lastpass-password-manager-before-its-too-late/
- Helping Protect Seniors from Fraud and Identity Theft
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Save Money by Cleaning out your Google Drive or GMail
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The Quiet Way Advertisers are tracking your Browsing
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January 2023
Kourtnee Jackson & Ty Pendlebury: Cable vs. Streaming: Which Is Cheaper?
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/is-cable-really-less-expensive-than-streaming/
Scharon Harding: Reviewer Buys 16TB Portable SSD for $70, Proves it’s a Sham
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/64gb-microsd-cards-are-posing-as-16tb-portable-ssds-on-amazon/