There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

What this means is that the deleted file is not fully gone and can still be recovered. It's only when the data is overwritten ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

Leading tech companies are in a race to release and improve artificial intelligence (AI) products, leaving users in the United States to puzzle out how much of their personal data could be extracted ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s safe to say that, even by regular standards, the OBR’s updated quantitative tightening assumptions will ...

AT&T's $177 million settlement is for data breaches in 2019 and 2024. Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), or both. File claim by Dec. 18, 2025, either online or by mail. If ...

Many popular apps collect more of your personal data than necessary to function properly. These 20 apps quietly scoop up your photos, location, contacts, and more. Here's how to protect yourself. I ...

Former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger has defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the race for Virginia’s governorship, after a long campaign with no primaries. Spanberger will succeed ...

It's never a good idea to spill your most intimate secrets to an AI chatbot, but there are ways to limit the data ChatGPT ...