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The Best Way to Bypass a Paywall to Read an Article for Free Online
Over the past several years, countless websites have added paywalls. This means if you want to read their articles, you have to sign up and pay a monthly subscription fee. Some sites have a “metered” paywall—meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before they ask for money—and others have a hard paywall, where you’ll have to…
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‘Sill’ Is the Best Way to Read Bluesky and Mastadon Links
I scroll through my Bluesky and Mastodon feeds every day and I sometimes grow tired of reading other people’s musings and opinions on everything. Some days, I just want to catch up on just the useful links in my timeline and Sill is a new tool that lets me do just that—you can think of Sill as an RSS feed…
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Can you read your manager’s emails via Copilot?
Microsoft has released a new collection of tools and a guide to fix security issues that have arisen around the way the company’s generative AI (genAI) Copilot assistant handles information. Namely, the tool’s indexing of an organization’s internal data can lead to the AI assistant sharing sensitive information when it shouldn’t. A Microsoft employee familiar with customer complaints tells Business Insider:…
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Why Having a Book-Shaped Phone Means I Read More Books
When many of us think of ebooks, we think of an Amazon Kindle eReader. But these days, there’s another portable piece of tech that is literally shaped like a book—the book-style foldable phone. I carry one in my pocket, and I’m now reading more than ever. A Book-Shaped Phone Feels Like Holding a Book Bertel King / How-To Geek We…
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Is the Government Watching Me? Do They Read Texts and Emails?
Is the government watching me? The unfortunate answer is yes. Government surveillance has become a global concern due to the ease digital technologies allow for espionage. Now, overreaching authorities in most countries infringe on citizens’ privacy by snooping on their web habits. Once upon a time, police had to get a search warrant to enter your home. Nowadays, your online…
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Don’t Have Hours to Read Terms of Service? Here’s How to Cut Down the Time
I don’t ever read the entire Terms of Service—it takes too long, and all the legal jargon makes my head spin. Despite that, I still know what I’m agreeing to before I click accept. Here’s how I do it. Search for Key Terms Terms of Service are legal documents. They are written very formally with lots of legal jargon—that’s why…
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