Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

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AI spend will jump 49.5% in 2026, says Gartner

Instead of buying just a laptop, companies now buy a laptop with AI chips in it, while enterprise software now has AI embedded in it. And instead of doing a project about business strategy, they…




How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better…