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Have you ever received a text message or a phone call from someone asking you to verify your identity by sending them a code? If you have, you may have been targeted by the Google Voice verification code scam. This is a sneaky and dangerous scam that allows fraudsters to hijack your phone number and use it to scam other people.CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER  Woman taking a photo to sell items (Kurt "CyberGuy"…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends While most people look forward to Apple’s mainline iPhone devices, there is also the more budget-friendly iPhone SE. Apple’s last iPhone SE was released in 2022 and it is due for a refresh. According to leaker @MajinBuOfficial on X (formerly Twitter), the next iPhone SE may steal one of the biggest features from the iPhone 15 series. Yes, we’re talking about the Dynamic Island. The past two models of the iPhone SE have recycled the old iPhone 8 body, but with more recent A-series chips…

StarTech.com Universal Laptop Lock Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysStarTech.com Universal Laptop Lock. It's a 6.6-foot, cut-resistant steel cable with a lock on one end that fits a variety of security slots. The opposite end features a loop, which you can secure around an immovable object, making it considerably more challenging for someone to walk away with your device. View at AmazonLaptop locks are not a new concept, and thanks to the variety of security slots that are found on devices -- from…

Bad actors keep using deepfakes for everything from impersonating celebrities to scamming people out of money. The latest instance is out of Hong Kong, where a finance worker for an undisclosed multinational company was tricked into remitting $200 million Hong Kong dollars ($25.6 million).According to Hong Kong police, scammers contacted the employee posing as the company's United Kingdom-based chief financial officer. He was initially suspicious, as the email called for secret transactions, but that's where the deepfakes…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends Samsung’s January Unpacked event revealed the company’s next-generation phones, the Galaxy S24 lineup. This includes the base model S24, the larger S24 Plus, and the top-of-the-line S24 Ultra. The S24 lineup is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip and has a smattering of new AI features. Samsung also seems to have copied Apple by giving the S24 and S24 Plus a flat frame instead of the rounded one used previously, as well as a matte look. And, of course, the S24 Ultra getting a…

A new study by MIT has revealed that for most companies who are looking to replace people with AI, deploying AI at such a large scale is proving to be prohibitively expensive. This essentially means that for some time, human jobs are safe for now…

Canada's forestry sector is responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than show up in official tallies, potentially leading to policies that aren't in line with the country's climate goals, a new study suggests.The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, found that annual greenhouse gas emissions attributable to forestry between 2005 and 2021 were, on average, nearly 91 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent — which would put the sector on par with…

Netflix's Killer Soup has the perfect ingredients of crime, suspense, panic, eccentricity, and drama broiled into a piping hot dark-comedy thriller. The first scene opens in Tamil Nadu's refreshing town of Minjur, dotted with lush green hills and a gorgeous river. Through the convoluted alleys of the town, we reach the handsome Shetty Villa sitting atop Dickinson Lane. The straight-from-story book house introduces us to the Shettys played by The Family Man's Manoj Bajpayee and Lust Stories 2's Konkona Sen Sharma.While the…

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown marks a bold reinvention for the series as a modern, AAA metroidvania. As the series' first attempt at the genre, it packs some smart new ideas, including some that other exploration-based games should learn from. Chief among these is Memory Shards, an elegantly simple idea that could (and should) be a game-changer for the genre.In the Lost Crown, Memory Shards are a limited but reusable resource that assigns a single button press to taking a screenshot and pinning it to…

I think most of you will agree that most people are not patient. For example, when we find some piece of clothing online that we really like, we want to buy it right now and have it right now. We don’t like waiting, especially when we’re waiting for something that we know we’re sure to get soon. However, sometimes it’s unavoidable and trying to take something before you can have it – well, that’s a bad idea.Kids may not know it that well, but this 10-year-old kid will remember it for sure after deciding to steal a puppy…