Your Social Security number is vulnerable to identity thieves — here's how to lock it down

Learn how to lock your Social Security number for free to prevent employment fraud and identity theft using E-Verify or by ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to create hidden, password-protected virtual drives using VeraCrypt

The safest way to secure your data on Windows is by keeping it in encrypted vaults. You can create hidden, password-protected ...

Hundreds of thousands of ‘Epstein files’ have been released — and there’s a lot more to come

Congress passed a law last month — with near-unanimous support — requiring the Justice Department to release all of its files about Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender ...

Can Epstein files be unredacted with a simple copy and paste? What we know

There is at least one document among the files currently released in which redacted text can be viewed through copy and paste ...

“So freaking incapable”: People are un-redacting the Epstein files with a laughably simple trick

“Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump’s ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How PowerToys' Locksmith tool helps unravel vague Windows error messages

The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program” might be one of the least helpful messages Windows ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy and Will Go Private

iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier. The ...
CBS News 8

My car lock is frozen! Simple fixes for a frozen car lock

CLEVELAND — We have all been there. A cold winter morning with an angry sky and temperatures firmly in the teens. You walk outside and the first thing you see is your car dressed in a glittering ...
The Atlantic

How to Read the Epstein Files Like an Expert

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USA Today

Deadline extended to file a claim in AT&T data breach settlement. Are you eligible?

The deadline to file a claim for money from the $177 million AT&T class action settlement is coming up. AT&T agreed to the settlement to resolve a lawsuit that accused it of failing to protect ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
Snopes.com

FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show

The FBI released files to Bloomberg investigative Reporter Jason Leopold following a civil lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. These files indicated that the agency had spent at least ...