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August, 2024

August, 2024

These smart vacuums and mowers can be hacked to spy on you
The smart home trend hasn’t let up as all kinds of internet-connected devices continue to make home life more efficient and convenient. But what happens when these smart gadgets are hacked? In a ...
Several high-risk security flaws patched in Foxit’s PDF tools
The free Foxit PDF Reader has just been updated to version 2024.2.3 for Windows. There are also corresponding updates for the premium Foxit PDF Editor, which does more than just read PDFs and sits amo...
Get three Audible audiobooks for $0.99 each and keep them forever
I’m an audiobook evangelist. I rarely go more than a few days without listening to one, and I’ll blast through two or three in a single road trip. But audiobooks are expensive and their prices don...
10 fantastic Dell back to school laptop deals: Don’t miss these sales!
The school year is almost upon us! That means we’re seeing a bunch of back to school laptop deals cropping up all over the place like wild daisies. Dell has some great deals in particular. They’ll...
Microsoft is ninja-killing yet another iconic Windows app this year
Microsoft is apparently keen to cut its popular legacy Windows applications with storied histories. Following the offici...
Millions of AMD CPUs vulnerable to hacks, and some won’t get patched
It seems like every month or so we hear about a new security flaw affecting tons of consumer-grade CPUs. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising, though, since the complexities of modern processors and...
Eradicate Windows 11’s annoying Microsoft ads with this free tool
Microsoft keeps pumping more and more ads into Windows 11. In addition to self-advertising in the Start menu, app recommendations, and pop-ups for Game Pass games, there are now also pop-ups for cloud...
5 ways to get Alexa to shut the hell up
“By the way,” Alexa sometimes says after responding to a command, followed by a random tidbit or suggestion you never asked for. Sound familiar?  To be fair, Alexa is just trying to be helpful...
Today’s best laptop deals: Save big on work, school, home use, and gaming
If you’re looking to score a fast laptop at a killer price, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re on the hunt for a blazing fast gaming rig, an affordable laptop under $500, or an every...
Give your Raspberry Pi blazing-fast SSD speed with this PCIe add-on
Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs. They d...
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