Windows Update seems less than reliable and out of our control. How can you prepare for what may or may not happen without tearing your hair out?

There are some practices to help you avoid having your credit card compromised, but most card theft is out of your control.

It can be very difficult -- perhaps impossible -- to determine if your mail's being read before you get to it.

Deep faking someone's voice is now within anyone's grasp.

Your browser may add a number to your download's file name to avoid collisions if you download a file of the same name more than once.

AI isn't about to enslave humanity -- at least not any time soon -- but it's definitely here and changing the world in both positive and negative ways.

Files cannot be checked for viruses before being downloaded, but there are precautions you can and should take.

It's easy to monitor the amount of bandwidth a computer is using. The entire network? Not so much.

After releasing a new version of software manufacturers often make older versions difficult to find. What if you really do need an old version?

Normally, you can request CHKDSK be run on the system drive at the next reboot. If that doesn't work, there is another way.