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Alaina Yee

California, United States

Senior Editor at PCWorld

Senior editor at @PCWorld. I write about tech; I tweet about cats & food. Formerly IGN, Maxmium PC, Official Xbox Magazine.

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  • AI can easily impersonate you. This trick helps thwart scammers

    1 week ago | pcworld.com | Alaina Yee

    AI’s rapidly expanding capabilities include convincing impersonations—that is, audio and video that sounds and looks like you. Sometimes these deepfakes can be harmless, part of a joke or meme that involves a celebrity, politician, or other public figure. But as you might guess, scammers also use them to steal money from the unsuspecting. Most of the time, this style of scheme–often called a “grandparent scam”–catches people off-guard. Why?

  • Data for 86 million AT&T customers leaked again. I take it as a warning

    1 week ago | pcworld.com | Alaina Yee

    AT&T lost information on millions of its U.S. customers last year—not just account numbers, but full names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, birth dates, and even social security numbers. But that wasn’t the end of the story, as the stolen data surfaced again. And this time, birthdates and SSNs (supposedly encrypted before) are now included in plain text. According to recent news reports, this reappearance of AT&T customer profiles doesn’t offer any new data.

  • A staggering 16 billion passwords just leaked. Here's the real danger

    1 week ago | pcworld.com | Alaina Yee

    Earlier this week, major news appeared to break—the discovery of 16 billion login records, available as part of massive datasets, tied to services like Apple, Google, Facebook, and GitHub. But unlike many other findings of this nature, these credentials don’t appear to be the usual repackaging of already leaked information. Instead, they contain fresh data not seen before.

  • Windows 10 is dying as scams skyrocket. We asked a security expert for advice

    1 week ago | pcworld.com | Alaina Yee

    Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. In it, we dive into the hottest topics from our YouTube show, plus hot news from across the web. This week, we dive into security with ethical hacker Mike Danseglio. Among our topics: Windows 10, Linux, DNS, those USB drives Adam keeps picking up off trade show floors. Want this newsletter to come directly to your inbox every Friday?

  • Windows 10 is dying as scams skyrocket. We asked a security expert for advice

    1 week ago | flipboard.com | Alaina Yee

    I seized control of Windows startup and sped up my PC in secondsIt takes just a few steps! Hey, everyone! Today I’m going to show you how to set apps to not load on startup in Windows. App developers usually program …

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Alaina Yee
Alaina Yee @morphingball
7 Mar 25

I wanted to understand the fuller picture of how the tariffs will affect the prices of tech gear. So I asked industry insiders. tl;dr - It's complicated. https://t.co/EwxQwVYTQ9

Alaina Yee
Alaina Yee @morphingball
4 Mar 25

Tech & techy friends: What are must-visit spots for weird/cool/unique PC hardware in Tokyo & Seoul? Visiting later this year and I wanna have a plan for attack :)

Alaina Yee
Alaina Yee @morphingball
4 Mar 25

Micro Center is opening in the SF Bay Area in spring. I'm so ready https://t.co/hbOr7pITcW