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🚨 Breach report
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🚨 Biggest data breach in history
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Plus: Facebook scams, $15M class-action, NFL’s new stadium facial rec
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💸 Huge money mistake
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🇨🇳 Communist China apps
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🧱 $15K brick
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Plus: Bad Google ads, creepy fitness tracking, Bill Gates and his interns
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🚫 Apps just got banned
August 1, 2024
Plus: Trendy emojis, Facebook ad scams, subscription mouse
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🤑 $1,000 for your identity
July 31, 2024
Plus: Stop spreading Russian propaganda, AI job interviews, personal checks going extinct
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🔑 Tech privacy savers
July 30, 2024
Plus: $1M gone in gold bar scam, stupid charging ‘hack,’ driving data sold for pennies
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😡 This makes me sick
July 29, 2024
Plus: AI app has ties to China, Olympians are turning to OnlyFans, 200 PC models at risk
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⛓️ Scammers’ slaves
July 28, 2024
Plus: Your smartwatch could hurt you, sabotage on Google Maps, bots stealing your reservation
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🚫 Danger zone: A predator’s playground
July 26, 2024
Plus: Meth-laced pills, flying cars get closer, there’s a GIF for that
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New AI PCs 💸 – Worth the money?
July 25, 2024
Plus: Marketplace scam, CrowdStrike’s troubles, Windows patch problems
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👀 Government spies on YOU
July 24, 2024
Plus: $400K real estate scam, Google shocker, hidden retirement benefits
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💳 Never show your cards
July 23, 2024
Plus: Deadly airbag scam, Microsoft’s CrowdStrike fix, child sextortion on the deep web