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Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
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Sep 1, 2026
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Top 10M sites
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Jul 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Martin Dean - "The Computer Skeptic"

    There's a Stranger in Your Computer. They Let Themselves In. (opens the original)

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    I want to talk to you about something I have been seeing a lot of in my shop lately, and it has me genuinely concerned. Over the past week alone, several customers have come through my door with a piece of software on their computers called ConnectWise. None of them put it there. None of them knew it was there. And every single one of them had a very bad week once we explained what it was. ConnectWise is a legitimate remote access tool. Real companies, including mine, use versions of it to remot

  2. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Martin Dean - "The Computer Skeptic"

    The New Voice in Your Computer (opens the original)

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    Well, you’ve probably noticed it by now. You sit down at your computer, you type a question into the search bar, for instance, “What’s the best way to get rid of garden weeds?”, and instead of giving you a list of websites, the search engine just tells you the answer. Right there, at the top of the page. It feels a bit like the computer has started to finish your sentences, and for a lot of us, that’s unsettling, isn’t it? For those of us who remember flipping through yellow pages or

  3. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Martin Dean - "The Computer Skeptic"

    Your TV Is Watching You Watch It (opens the original)

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    I do not say that to be dramatic, though I admit it sounds like the tagline of a moderately unsettling cable movie. It is simply true, and it is worth understanding before you settle in for another evening of whatever it is you are currently binge watching. Modern smart TVs, the kind with Netflix and Hulu and YouTube built right in, come loaded with a feature called ACR, which stands for Automatic Content Recognition. It is essentially a technology that takes regular snapshots of whatever is on

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