How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rights and the rights of non-US […]
Google Calendar hit by info-stealing malware — here’s how to safeguard your devices
Getting hacked is never planned, but it seems that malware is infiltrating people’s calendars. New reports are warning Google users that malicious actors are attempting to infect Google Calendars, Slides and Docs with “info-stealing” software to gain access to emails, chat logs, browser data, login credentials and more. According to Wired, scams involving Google Calendar […]
Google Calendar Malware Is on the Rise. Here’s How To Stay Safe
While software makers and app developers continue to make their wares safer and less open to attack, you can never get complacent with digital security—and you need to be aware of all the different methods of attack that bad actors use to get at your accounts. Those methods include targeting Google Calendar: An app so […]
How to Change the Default Search Engine in Google Chrome
Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of course, Chrome has Google’s search engine built right in. However, if you love Google Chrome but you’ve decided […]
How To Create And Customize An AI Podcast With Google’s NotebookLM
Google’s NotebookLM generates podcast-like conversations between male and female AI hosts. Credit: Roger Dooley Last week, Google announced a significant improvement to their NotebookLM AI podcasts, officially known as Audio Overviews. Specifically, they added the ability to focus the content of the podcast in several ways. NotebookLM Podcast Basics NotebookLM from Google is an AI […]
How to detect online image manipulation
How to detect online image manipulation – CBS News Watch CBS News With so many online images looking authentic, it can be hard to tell what’s real. The CBS News Confirmed team, led by Executive Producer Melissa Mahtani and Producer Alex Clark, shares tips on how to verify online content and detect misinformation Be the […]
How to Generate an AI Podcast Using Google’s NotebookLM
Two podcasts hosts banter back and forth during the final episode of their series, audibly anxious to share some distressing news with listeners. “We were, uh, informed by the show’s producers that we’re not human,” a male-sounding voice stammers out, mid-existential crisis. The conversation between the bot and his female-sounding cohost only gets more uncomfortable […]
Google Is ‘Thinking Through’ How to Make the Pixel Watch Repairable
If you break the Google Pixel Watch—whether the first-generation smartwatch from 2022 or the latest model launched earlier this month—there is no way to repair it through official channels. Instead, if you successfully make a warranty claim, Google will send you a replacement unit instead of repairing your model. This lack of repairability highlights the […]
How To Make An AI Transformation In Your Business
This is the published version of Forbes’ CEO newsletter, which offers the latest news for today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders and decision makers. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox every week. In the last few years, public companies focused on three goals: profits through the economic slowdown, transitioning to new technologies—especially generative […]
How to Turn Off Google Ads for Sensitive Topics
All you need to do to hide ads about a certain topic is to flick the relevant toggle switch on this screen. You can hide as many or as few topics as you like, and the changes are applied right away. If you decide that you’re happy to start seeing ads associated with a particular […]