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We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you're looking for a Bluetooth tracker to keep tabs on your stuff, your choice may be platform-dependent. Over in the Apple ecosystem, your first (and perhaps best) choice is an AirTag, made by none other than Apple itself for its Find My network. On Android, you have more options, but not in quite the same way as Apple: Samsung has a tracker that works best with its Galaxy devices, while Tile has its own proprietary network. You would think the best choice would come from Google directly, seeing as the company also develops Android—but that isn't the case. Not only is Google not the default option here, it isn't an option at all. Despite creating Android and maintaining its Find Hub network (similar to Apple's Find...

If you don't spend hours every day working in spreadsheets, you may know only the basics of what Google Sheets can do: add, subtract, and sort data. But Sheets has a lot of powerful features that make data management simpler for even the casual user. Here are 10 hidden Google Sheets tricks everyone should know. Edit shareable links in Google Sheets to make documents into clean copies or downloadable CSVs One of the best features of Sheets and other Google Workspace apps is that collaborators can make and view changes in real time. In some cases, though, you may not want to share your live spreadsheet, instead providing a clean copy or a downloadable CSV. With editable sharing links, you don't need to make copies or export manually. Simply replace /edit at the end of the link with /copy (fo...

AI agents are always getting better at finding things, which includes sensitive information like your passwords, financial information, and API secrets if they are left exposed in obvious places. You may have been following the recent news coverage on OpenAI’s rogue agent attacking the Hugging Face servers during an evaluation. But you may not have noticed that tucked in OpenAI’s public disclosure on the hack is an admission that its AI models have been targeting publicly exposed online credentials even before this incident. The day after OpenAI’s disclosure, Anthropic came forward with a report of similar incidents with multiple Claude models dating as far back as April of this year.A few years ago, Security Magazine reported on a study that found up to 24 billion username and password co...

Snipping Tool is the default app for screenshots in Windows 11. There's a lot more to the app than that, however: With it, you can take screen recordings, extract text from images or websites that disable copying, and use a reverse image search tool. While ShareX is still my favorite app for taking screenshots in Windows, I think Snipping Tool has reached a point where it's great for both beginners and power users. Here are 10 essential Snipping Tool hacks that every Windows 11 user should know.Use 'Scan Text' to copy text from imagesCopying text from images is one of the most common uses of screenshot tools, and Snipping Tool does it quite well. You can right-click any image in Windows 11, and go to Open with > Snipping Tool. Once the photo opens, you can click the Scan Text button to ...