How to Stop Windows from Tracking Everything You Do There’s been an uproar recently over Microsoft’s new Copilot PCs and a feature called “Recall” which is turned on by default. Recall automatically takes screenshots of your screen every few seconds ostensively to make things easier to find later on. It seems most people don’t want Windows… Read More »
Criminals Are Using Deepfakes to Turn Social Media Photos X Criminals are weaponizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in disturbing ways, one of which involves manipulating innocent social media photos into compromising or illegal images. This crime is perpetrated through AI-powered software that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes are synthetic media where a person in an existing image or video is… Read More »
Don’t Be a Phish: Learn to Recognize Phishing Scams Hundreds of thousands of people are tricked into giving up personal information to criminals daily. And many of these poor folks were tricked into clicking links in phishing emails or text messages. Phishing is a type of deceptive email or message that’s designed to trick you into divulging personal… Read More »
AI Voice Cloning, Real Trouble: How Scammers Can Mimic Anyone’s Voice to Steal Your Money Imagine getting a call that sounded exactly like a friend or family member but it isn’t… it’s a scammer trying to steal your money or your personal information. Well, there’s a new trick scammers are using to scam people to steal money,… Read More »
Wednesday Newsbytes: Scammers Use AI Voice Cloning to Steal 30K from Couple; The End of The Web as We Know It; Is the Clock Ticking on TikTok?; Windows 11 Gets Ads… and more Every day we scan the tech world for interesting news in the world of technology and sometimes from outside the world of technology.… Read More »
BleachBit: The Free Comprehensive System Cleaner Once in a while, we find a freeware program that seems to be like a lot of other applications, but then on closer inspection, we find that it isn’t. BleachBit is one of these kinds of programs. On the surface, it may seem to be just another system clean-up tool… Read More »