Shark fixed the vacuum flaw. Here's what yours knows about you.

A researcher pulled a live camera feed, a floor plan, and a Wi-Fi password off a Shark robot vacuum he didn't own. Shark hasn't fixed it. Here's what every robot vacuum collects, and what you can do about it.

Samsung killed its texting app, but your texts are fine.

Samsung Messages stopped working July 6 on newer Galaxy phones. Nothing is broken, your old texts are not gone, and the switch takes about ten minutes.

I lost ten years of photos. Now I print a photo book every January.

Half an hour in January, and a printed book of your whole year shows up at your door. I started because I lost a decade of pictures.

That sketchy letter from your hospital might be real

Rochester patients got a real breach notice with the wrong hospital name on it. Many threw it away.

What do you do when an AI deepfake has your face?

A New Orleans doctor spent months trying to get fake AI ads of himself taken down. What worked, what didn't, and why the settings you've heard about wouldn't have helped.

Your phone can copy text out of any photo

The two-minute trick that ends retyping wifi passwords, codes, and recipes off a screen.

The Meta AI panic is over, but turn off this lingering setting.

Meta pulled the feature that let anyone make AI images from your public Instagram photos. The setting that fed it is still on by default. Here is how to turn it off.

Data brokers have a file on you. California is making them delete it.

Companies you've never dealt with sell lists of who's pregnant, who has Alzheimer's, and who might fall for a scam. Starting August 1, Californians can make them delete it. There are steps for the rest of us, too.

The parental controls that fail, Amazon's Starlink rival, and a VPN warning

Also in this issue: the Windows rewind button, who answers for a chatbot, and a five-minute email fix.

Start using a password manager

One password used everywhere is one key to every lock. A password manager fixes that, and starting is easier than you think.

Windows 11 has a disk-eating bug. Tuesday's update fixes it.

A hidden Windows 11 file has been swallowing disk space, up to 500GB in the worst cases, and Windows gives you no way to see it happening. The repair arrives automatically July 14. Two minutes in Settings tells you if you're affected.

Check your email's recovery info before you get locked out

Password resets for everything else land in your inbox, which makes your email account the master key. The recovery phone and backup email on that account are how you get back in, and most of us set them years ago.