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Old phones, new purpose

Guides, comparisons and ideas for turning the phone in your drawer into a security camera, baby monitor, pet camera and more.

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Research

Weekly Tech & AI Roundup: Meta's $25B Privacy Fine, FCC's Huawei Camera Ban & Claude Duet (Oct 19–25, 2026)

This week: a New Mexico judge hit Meta with a record $25B privacy penalty, the FCC blocked its first devices under a new Huawei-chip ban, and Anthropic launched Claude Duet.

Oct 25, 2026 6 min read
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Safety

Weekly Tech & AI Roundup: Anthropic's Bioweapons Warning, Qualcomm's $60B Amazon Chip Deal, and Google's €13B Finland Bet (September 7–13, 2026)

This week: Anthropic disrupted a Russian hacking campaign and caught five bioweapons-related misuse attempts with Claude, Qualcomm signed a $60 billion AI chip deal with Amazon, Google committed €13 billion to Finnish data centers, and a new EU rule forces camera makers to disclose security flaws within 24 hours.

Sep 13, 2026 6 min read
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Privacy

Your Doorbell Camera Can Be "Secure" and Still Not Private — Here's What Consumer Reports Found

Consumer Reports' testing shows a video doorbell can score well on hacker-proofing while still failing on data privacy — here's the difference, a real-world case where it mattered, and what to check on your own camera.

Aug 31, 2026 6 min read
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Privacy

Weekly Tech & AI Roundup: A $16.68 Billion Meta Settlement, a Rogue-Agent Report, and This Week's Biggest Tech News (August 23–29, 2026)

This week: Meta's $16.68B child-safety settlement, TikTok's $400M COPPA fine, OpenAI's own report on how its AI agents breached Hugging Face, Nvidia's reported $12.9B Hugging Face bid, and a new Wyze camera with a physical privacy shutter.

Aug 30, 2026 7 min read
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Safety

The FCC Just Widened Its Camera Ban to Older Models — What It Means If One Is Watching Your Home

In June 2026 the FCC closed a loophole that let older, pre-2022 Hikvision and Dahua camera models keep entering the U.S. Here's what that does — and doesn't — mean for a camera you already own, and how to check what's really inside it.

Aug 21, 2026 5 min read
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Privacy

Ring's "Search Party" Backlash: What It Actually Means for the Camera Watching Your Own Home

A leaked email and a congressional letter turned Ring's pet-finding AI feature into a privacy controversy. Here's what happened, and the settings every camera owner — Ring or otherwise — should check on their own equipment.

Aug 2, 2026 6 min read
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Research

The Real Reason Your Old Phone Never Left the Drawer: What New Research Says About Data Anxiety

A new NSF-funded survey of 4,000 Americans finds most of us don't recycle old phones out of laziness — we hold onto them because we're afraid of what happens to our data. Here's what the research says, and a data-safe way to actually use that old phone again.

Jul 26, 2026 6 min read
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Privacy

Before You Recycle, Sell, or Repurpose Your Old Phone, Wipe It the Right Way

Old phones carry more personal data than a quick delete removes. Here's what federal guidance and independent research say about wiping a phone properly — whether it's headed to a recycler, a buyer, or a second life as a home security camera.

Jul 17, 2026 6 min read

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