A number of people have wound up calling me to help them recover their computers when the problem was simply that some website had been given permission to send notifications. When browsing, be very careful. The more popular the category in which you’re searching, the more likely there are bad websites pretending to serve your…
I was preparing to interview an author regarding a book, and decided to try talking to Gemini to see what would happen. Note that I’m using Gemini Advanced as part of Google Workspaces. I don’t think this would differ with the regular edition, however. I have repaired capitalization and punctuation in my own prompts, but…
I’m posting this because I had some trouble finding the right terminology and eventually had to discover the right class for the object. I’m not sure why this popup kept appearing with a black background, but it did. I could not find any way to edit it, so I added CSS in the customizer. Here’s…
Due to a remote execution flaw in CyberPanel, I had to clean up after this attack. The most useful site I found was Kinsing malware (kdevtmpfsi) – how to kill on CreateIt. The instructions there are useful. Don’t forget to do the full search, as if you have any “kinsing” files left, they’ll get things started…
Social media and other technology is taking over the way you get information. Learn and take control.
Actually, I do. I was an early adopter. I’m using a preview version of it. What I’ve observed, however, is that the way tech writers think about technology and the way ordinary people do is significantly different. As I’ve aged, my business has also evolved into serving more individuals and less businesses. Even when I…
Every advance in technology offers us new opportunities. Some of these opportunities are used constructively, some not so much. AI on the March! There are a number of issues with the use of AI, but this post is more of a warning. Just as some positive activities are enhanced by the use of AI, so…
In a number of webinars I’ve attended this year on information security, I have been alerted to the changes AI is making to email scams. Background Email is the most effect tool for attack that hackers have, because if an email looks like it is from a particular company or from someone known to the…
Using the AI Assistant I have added Jetpack’s AI assistant to my Threads blog, and today I tested it on a fairly lengthy post. I thought I’d show what it did here. I found its suggestions helpful, and I implemented most. There was another round, but they went beyond the time I was planning to…
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