PC Companies Are Getting Sloppy With Security

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What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. YouTubers Made Hundreds Of Thousands Off Of Bizarre And Disturbing Child Content Google is shutting them down now, but for a while making disturbing videos for children was good money. [Buzzfeed] Apple let a knockoff version of one of the world's biggest crypto wallets into the App Store Good old fashioned crypto-fraud. [TechCrunch] Nintendo Switch Has Sold 10 Million Units to Date The Switch is on pace to outsell the Wii's first year. Remember how hard it was to get a Wii? [Variety] How to Build Your Own Computer, Part Two: Putting It Together So you’ve selected your parts, double- and triple-checked their compatibility, and waited for economy shipping to bring them all to your door. It’s time to get to the fun part: putting them all together. Read This Article → How to Save Photos from the iPhone Notes app to Your Photo Library If you're a heavy user of Apple's Notes app on your iPhone, you've probably noticed a slightly weird behavior: unlike almost every other app, if you take a photo in Notes, it isn't saved to the Photos app. Read This Article → PC Companies Are Getting Sloppy With Security Nothing is perfectly secure, and we’ll never eliminate every vulnerability out there. But we shouldn’t be seeing as many sloppy mistakes as we’ve seen from HP, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft in 2017. Read This Article → How to Share a Contact Over Text Message on the iPhone We’ve all gotten that text from a friend asking for another mutual friend’s number. You could jump into your contacts list and try to remember the number, but it’s a lot easier to just share the other person’s contact card. A couple of extra taps and boom—that person will be in your recipient’s contacts, too. Read This Article → How to Edit Scenes for Your Philips Hue Lights If you ever want to make changes to a scene that you have set up in the Hue app, you can actually edit a scene instead of deleting it and creating a new one. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Turn Your Computer Into a DLNA Media Server Many boxes you plug into your TV, including the Roku, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and even some smart TVs themselves offer DLNA (“Digital Living Network Alliance”) streaming support. They can stream video files and music over the network from your PC—as long as you set up a DLNA server on the PC first. Read This Article → How to Reboot Google Wifi From Your Phone Look, sometimes routers need to be rebooted. If you’re a Google Wifi user, you could go unplug all of your units—or you could just reboot them from your phone. Read This Article → How to Make Phone Calls from Your Mac Through Your iPhone With Continuity, your Mac and iPhone work pretty well together. You can seamlessly transition between the two platforms…including make phone calls right from your computer. Here's how. Read This Article → How to Build Your Own Computer, Part One: Choosing Hardware So you’ve decided to take the plunge and assemble your own desktop PC. Maybe you’re ready to take your PC gaming to the next level, build a tiny entertainment machine, or just save some money by assembling your own budget machine. Whatever your intentions, our five part guide is here to help you. Read This Article → Advertisement Free eBook: Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition ($19 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This eBook includes all the guidance you need to make the most of this latest update of Windows. This freshly updated resource cuts through the jargon and covers everything you need to know. It shows you how to set up multiple user accounts, create a Homegroup for easy sharing between devices, backup your files, and troubleshoot common problems. Download