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PO 7501 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
248 921 3456

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09/04/2026

Don't ask Gemini to plan your hike, or.............

Gemini didn't have a clue!

A small group asked Google Gemini to plan a Mount Shasta climb, then followed its eight-hour estimate and advice to skip fats, because they take too long to digest. They left at without enough food, water or warm clothing. The summit took 16 hours, not 8! The phone with the navigation app died during the descent. They got lost and rescuers found them the next morning. With no helicopter available, everyone endured a nine-hour walk of shame out.

TK

09/02/2026

Under lock and Ring
An odd but appreciated U-turn from Ring.
You know that front door video showing the kids arriving, a prescription delivery or the neighbor returning your ladder? Ring is putting that footage behind constantly changing locks through TAKE, its new Throw Away the Key Encryption system.
Translation: Videos are much harder for Ring, police and intruders to access (paywall link) unless you say so. AI searches and smart alerts survive the upgrade. An odd but appreciated U-turn from Ring.
TK

09/02/2026

Every always-on gadget is an antenna!
Comcast made Wi-Fi motion sensing a headline feature on millions of Xfinity gateways. Your router reads the ripples your body makes in the signal: which room you’re in, standing or lying down, through walls, no camera, no light. And the fine print says motion data can go to law enforcement “without further notice to you.”
Every Wi-Fi signal in your house bounces off the walls, the couch and you. Wi-Fi sensing reads the ripples your body makes. A few weeks of that, and the box knows when you wake up, when the house sits empty and which nights you fell asleep in the recliner.
That’s not a motion alert. That’s a diary.
Researchers have identified specific people by their signal ripple with near-perfect accuracy. Not “someone’s home.” You.
The walls have eyes
Comcast’s new Xfinity Shield turns any XB7-or-newer gateway into a motion detector, free. Your printer, smart plugs and Xbox become the sensors. $15 a month adds a camera and 24/7 response. Comcast’s pitch: “The network should do more than connect devices.” Linksys sells a version called Aware.
Now the fine print.
Comcast’s policy says it may disclose Wi-Fi motion data “without further notice to you” for any law enforcement investigation, any dispute Comcast is in or a subpoena. Comcast says it doesn’t monitor the motion. Fine. The door’s still open. Your camera has a light. Your mic has a rule. This has neither.
Bright side: This can catch Grandma’s fall without a camera in her bathroom. Used with consent, I like it. Used quietly, I don’t.
Five minutes. The opt-out nobody covers.
Xfinity customers: Open the Xfinity app, tap WiFi, look for WiFi Motion (it may sit under Shield). Comcast says it’s off unless you turned it on. Look anyway. Ads are persuasive, and so is a teenager with your login.
Everyone else: Open your router or mesh app and hunt for motion, sensing or Aware. If you didn’t turn it on, turn it off.
Own, don’t rent. A rented gateway runs by your provider’s rules. A $69 router you own has an off switch you control, and it kills the monthly fee. Two wins.
Thin the sensor herd. Every always-on gadget is an antenna. The bedroom doesn’t need four.
I don’t mean to be negative on tech. I think it’s important that you’re aware of what’s really happening. Usually, it’s collecting data to sell to who knows who so that they can target market you with ads or worse.
TK

08/31/2026

Never take meeting notes again. Seriously, never.

You know that person who scribbles notes all meeting, then can't read their own handwriting? The Plaud Note fixed that for me. It's an AI voice recorder about as thick as two credit cards that sticks right to the back of your phone.

Press one button and it records your meetings, calls, lectures, you name it. Then the app transcribes and summarizes everything using the best AI models out there, in 112 languages. You get the action items, the key decisions, even who said what. All while you actually pay attention to the conversation.

The specs are no joke: 30 hours of recording on one charge, 64GB of storage, and 60 days of standby. Plus 300 free AI transcription minutes every month, no subscription required to start. It even comes with a case.

TK

08/30/2026

DELETE YOUR HOME ADDRESS ON LINE!

"He picked her out online"

Earlier this month in Kent, Washington, police arrested a 25-year-old for allegedly stalking a woman he did not know. She did everything right: documented the harassment and got a stalking protection order. He violated it anyway. Police said most stalking cases follow a bad breakup, “but this was not that.” He picked her out online.

Five days earlier in Batavia, Ill., 2,000 miles away, a woman spots a flashlight and a shadow outside her window at 2:39 a.m. Police catch a 27-year-old registered s*x offender nearby, dressed in black, brush stuck to his shoes, with burglary tools bought hours earlier. How did he pick her? Police say he saw her on social media, then “researched them and found their address.”

From a selfie to your street

A creep doesn’t need to be a hacker to track someone down. People-search sites bundle your name, home address, phone number, age and relatives, then sell the file for as little as $0.95. To anyone. No questions asked.

The feds know exactly where this leads. The CFPB proposed a rule to stop data brokers from selling your info to “scammers, stalkers and spies,” citing a murder committed by an attacker who bought the victim’s home address. Washington pulled the rule last year. Nobody is coming to take you off these sites.

Wipe the map

Lock your profiles. Set Instagram and Facebook to private, prune followers to people you actually know, turn off location tags. And don’t post in real time from the gym or the coffee shop you hit every Tuesday. Post after you leave.

Take your address down.

Incogni does the removal process for you: requests to 420+ data brokers and people-search sites, then repeat requests so your profile doesn’t creep back. Go Unlimited if you’ve ever had a scary encounter. The Exposure Scanner finds profiles you didn’t know existed and lets you hit Remove. Deloitte independently verified their results. 30-day money-back guarantee.

One layer, not a force field. Incogni can’t touch social media, court files or county records, and it’s no substitute for police, documentation or a protection order (the Kent woman’s order is why the suspect’s in jail). But the page that turns your face into your street address? That comes down.
TK

08/29/2026

Make Certain You're Paying The Right Company!!!
Search ads can impersonate the company you’re trying to pay. Check the rules below for safe payments.
You google your own utility bill. You click the first result. You pay it. Weeks later, you find out you paid a stranger, not your utility company, and your real bill is still sitting there unpaid.
The FTC put out a warning about something most of us do without thinking twice: searching for a company’s payment page instead of going straight to a bookmark or the bill in hand.
Here’s the trick.
Dishonest companies buy search ads and use real company names as key words, so their ad shows up first, right above or instead of the genuine biller. Click it, and you land on a page that looks like it belongs to your utility, your phone carrier or your doctor’s office. It doesn’t.
This already cost people millions
This isn’t hypothetical. The FTC settled with a company called Doxo. According to the FTC, Doxo bought search ads and used company names and logos like AT&T, Spectrum and Labcorp to make itself look like a real payment site.
People paid through Doxo, thinking they were paying their actual biller, and got hit with surprise “delivery fees” on top. Some got quietly enrolled in a recurring subscription they never knowingly agreed to. Check your statements for that one. It hides in plain sight.
In many cases, Doxo took your money electronically, then printed a paper check and dropped it in the mail. Your real bill sat unpaid for days or weeks while you assumed it was handled. The FTC says people got hit with late fees, had utilities shut off and even had insurance lapse.
You did everything “right.” You still got burned. And this went on for years. Tens of thousands of people complained, and search engine employees privately called the ads “super misleading” back in 2021. The ads kept running anyway.
Nobody double-checks a bill payment. You search, you click, you pay, you move on. That’s the routine these ads are built to exploit.
There’s no sketchy phone call, no obvious red flag. Just a paid ad sitting in the search results you’re likely to trust.
Pay it right
Never search for a company’s payment page. Use the number or link on your paper bill or a bookmark you saved yourself.
If you must search, scroll past every result marked “Ad” or “Sponsored” before you click anything.
Look for the fee line. Your real biller doesn’t charge a delivery fee to take your money. A middleman does.
One rule to remember: The search bar is for finding information, not for paying bills. Your bill already knows the way home.
TK

08/27/2026

SCAM..SCAM..SCAM!!!!

Check the email address AND the telephone number!

A job offer or “account review” lands with a link to a form. It looks perfect, logo and all, right down to the disclaimer at the bottom. The address is the tell: forms.google.ss-o.⁠com instead of forms.google.⁠com. Fill it in, hit “Sign in” and your Gmail password belongs to someone in another time zone.

You didn’t click anything. A “subscription renewed, $389.99” event appeared on your Google Calendar with a number to “dispute the charge.” Google Calendar auto-adds invites from anyone by default, so it skips your spam filter entirely. The number is the scam.

Caller ID says Google, sometimes from a real 650 number the company uses for automated calls. A calm American voice says someone in Frankfurt is in your account and reads you a code to “secure” it. Google will never call you about your account security. Never.

Scammers seed fake support numbers on junk sites. Google’s AI reads those sites and serves the number at the top of your search.

The checklist

Calendar: On a computer, open Google Calendar > the gear symbol > Settings > Event settings > Add invitations to my calendar > switch to Only if the sender is known. Thirty seconds, and the invite scam is over.

Phone: Google calls no one about security. Hang up. Then check for yourself at myaccount.google.com/security-checkup.

Forms: Before you type, read the address bar. If “google⁠.com” isn’t the last thing before the first slash, close it. A password manager won’t autofill a fake site.

Numbers: Never call a number from an AI Overview, an ad or a calendar invite. Get it from the back of your credit card or the company’s own site.

Second search. Paste any number into Google with the word “scam” before dialing. Takes 10 seconds.

Where do scammers hang out these days? The search bar. Order accordingly.

TK

08/26/2026

Amazon Drones COST HOW MUCH???
What thief wouldn't see an opportunity here, eh?

How much does an Amazon Prime Air drone cost?
AI Answers:
An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone is not available for public purchase, but internal records indicate that each custom-built unit costs approximately $146,000 to manufacture.

Per-Package Operational Cost: Leaked internal documents show that Amazon's per-package delivery cost is roughly $63 per drop. This is down from an initial trial cost of $484 per package but remains significantly higher than the standard $5.50 required for a traditional ground delivery truck.

Customer Delivery Fees: For eligible customers living within a 7.5 to 8-mile radius of a designated Prime Air fulfillment hub, the cost to receive a drone delivery varies by membership status and order size:
Free: For Amazon Prime members placing orders of $50 or more.
$2.99: For Prime members placing orders under $50.
$4.99: For non-Prime members.

Prime Air Hardware Capabilities
The current flagship aircraft powering this network is the MK30 drone, an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft:
Package Limit: It can only deliver single items weighing 5 pounds or less that can fit inside a standard large shoebox.

Flight Weight & Specs: The drone itself weighs about 80 pounds and delivers packages autonomously by hovering approximately 10 feet above a clear drop zone in a backyard and releasing the parcel.

Speed: It is designed to get essential goods, medications, and groceries to suburban doorsteps in under an hour, with many taking roughly 30 minutes.

08/25/2026

Robot Butler. NOT completely Autonomous!
Beware of the guy behind the curtain!
Don’t buy the hype about the hottest gadget of 2026, the robot butler. It folds laundry, loads the dishwasher, tidies the toys. But the “artificial intelligence” doing your chores is a guy in an office in the US or overseas somewhere, wearing a VR headset, watching your kitchen through the robot’s eyes.

The $20,000 NEO home robot from 1X (or $499 a month for a subscription). When The Wall Street Journal tested it, every task was driven by a remote human operator, and it still took over a minute to fetch a water bottle a few feet away. Putting three dishes into the dishwasher took five minutes.
Isaac 1, the $8,000 laundry-folding robot from Weave. “Autonomous,” until it gets stuck. Then a remote operator quietly takes over.
Tau’s $30-an-hour robot maid in San Francisco, where a remote operator watches every single appointment.
Why? These robots learn by having humans drive them. Your chores are the training data. You’re not buying a butler. You’re paying to host a film crew.
The fine print admits it.
Tau’s contract grants the company a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to footage recorded in your home, and it survives after you cancel. Faces in stored footage aren’t blurred. And footage already used to train the AI? The company admits it can’t pull it back out.
Ask who’s driving, and when. The good companies let you schedule operator sessions in an app and show a light when a human takes the wheel (NEO’s head glows). No schedule, no light, no sale. FYI, that indicator can be turned off.
Hunt the words “perpetual license.” Search the terms for “perpetual,” “worldwide” and “royalty-free” near “footage” or “recordings.” That’s legalese for: your living room, forever, free, going who knows where.
Demand no-go zones. Bedrooms, bathrooms, anywhere kids sleep. If it can’t block off rooms, it doesn’t belong in your house.
Someday the robots will drive themselves and the humans will fade out of the loop. Until then, assume the butler brought a plus-one. So go ahead and wave at the robot, friend. Somebody might just wave back.
TK

08/24/2026

A Passkey Can Be The Safest Way To Go!

A passkey can’t be phished, guessed, leaked or cracked. It’s the best login tech we’ve ever had. And you can use it on maybe 5% of the sites you log into. The other 95% still want the password you’ve been recycling since your flip phone.

The lock that can’t be picked
First, a passkey is a tiny digital key that lives on your phone or computer. You unlock it with your face or fingerprint. No typing. Nothing for a crook to steal, because the secret never leaves your device.

Phishing email that looks like your bank? Useless. The fake site can’t accept a key that only works on the real one. Big company gets hacked and leaks 100 million logins? Your passkey wasn’t in there to leak.

So yes. Passkeys win. Every time.

Here’s the catch. Google, Apple, Amazon, PayPal and a growing list of banks support them. Your pharmacy, your kid’s school portal, your power company, that airline you fly twice a year and the 140 random accounts you forgot you made? Passwords. Still.

The average person juggles somewhere north of 100 logins. Passkeys cover a handful. That gap is where hackers live.

Your brain, but it never forgets

A password manager is a locked vault that remembers everything so you don’t have to. One master password opens it. It creates a different 20-character monster for every site, fills it in automatically and warns you when one shows up in a breach.

And here’s the part nobody tells you: Good password managers store your passkeys, too. That fixes the other passkey problem. Make one on your iPhone, and your Windows laptop shrugs. In a manager, it syncs everywhere.

Your plan, in order:

Get a manager and import what you have. Your browser’s saved logins move over in a couple of minutes.

Run its health check. Fix the reused and leaked ones first. Ignore the rest for now.

Turn on passkeys wherever the manager spots the option. Google, Apple, Amazon, your bank.

Memorize exactly one thing: the master password. Make it a long sentence you’d never forget. Then stop thinking about passwords forever.

Passkeys are the dead bolt. The manager is the key ring. You still need the ring, but you never have to jingle it again.

TK

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