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How to Stop Windows 11 From Auto-Installing Device Drivers
If Windows 11 installs buggy drivers or you prefer installing device drivers manually, I’ll show you how to prevent your system from automatically finding and installing the connected devices’ drivers. Know This Before Disabling Auto-Installation of Device Drivers Before you turn off automatic installation and updates of your device drivers, know that this comes at a cost. First, your connected…
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How to remove adware from an Android device
Android’s open nature allows you to install apps outside the Google Play store, but that openness puts you at greater risk of compromising your device with things like viruses, malware, and adware. While sticking to the Play Store might be good practice, it won’t guarantee that you’ll never be infected. In this post, we go over what adware is, how…
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Your Android Device Will Soon Automatically Reboot to Protect Itself
Android is getting a new security feature that makes it harder for someone to break into your device if it has been lost, stolen, or seized. With the latest Google Play services update, Android phones and tablets will automatically restart (and require a passcode to decrypt) if they remain locked for three consecutive days. How Android auto-restart works Android and…
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How to Power Almost Any Smart Home Device With Power-Over-Ethernet
Summary Power over Ethernet (PoE) can power more than cameras and APs, providing flexibility for various devices. PoE splitters enable running devices like Raspberry Pi and Hue Hub without official PoE support. Different PoE standards offer varying power outputs, accommodating devices from smart home hubs to high-power systems. While Power over Ethernet (PoE) is nothing new to home networking, I…
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Android’s Find My Device app can now show you where people are, too
Google is rolling out a Find My Device app feature update that shows a map of your friends and the family members who share their location with you, 9to5Google reports. The new feature was announced in the Android March feature update last week and is now available for more users. There’s already a way for friends and family to see…
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Some Chromecasts are giving ‘Untrusted device’ errors today
Reports are cropping up today that second-generation Chromecasts and music-streaming Chromecast Audio devices are failing, displaying an error on the device they’re trying to cast from that seems to imply the streamers may no longer be supported, reports 9to5Google. Text from screenshots of the error posted to Reddit reads, “Untrusted device” and continues, saying the device “couldn’t be verified. This…
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How to disable ‘Let’s finish setting up your device’ with ‘Remind me in 3 days’ prompt on Windows 11
On Windows 11, you can stop the system from showing the “Let’s finish setting up your device” page at login, and in this guide, I’ll explain the steps to complete this process. Sometimes, after installing an update or restarting the computer, Windows 11 may show you the “Let’s finish setting up your device” prompt to lure you into using other…
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How to turn Find My Device Off or On on Android (Samsung Galaxy included)
Google’s Find My Device tracking service allows users to remotely trace, locate, and wipe devices that are part of the company’s crowdsourced network of Android devices. Users can locate their missing Android phones, tablets, earphones, Wear OS-powered smartwatches, and other devices. While this feature is helpful, it also regularly sends location information to Google’s servers, and privacy-conscious users may want…
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Hackers steal emails in device code phishing attacks
An active campaign from a threat actor potentially linked to Russia is targeting Microsoft 365 accounts of individuals at organizations of interest using device code phishing. The targets are in the government, NGO, IT services and technology, defense, telecommunications, health, and energy/oil and gas sectors in Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center tracks the threat actors behind the device code…
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uTag lets you use Samsung’s SmartTags trackers with any Android device
Samsung’s SmartTags trackers and Galaxy Find network offer similar functionality to Apple’s AirTags and Find My network, including precision finding using ultra wideband (UWB) radios. The downside is that they only work with Samsung Galaxy devices. A free open-source app called uTag (short for Universal Tag), developed by Kieron Quinn, lets Samsung’s SmartTags trackers work with Android devices that run…
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