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Ring's new 4K doorbell is $70 off for the first time It's a pretty good deal if you want a doorbell camera with sharp 4K video The newest Ring Battery Doorbell 4K Pro just dropped to $180 at Amazon, a solid $70 off its usual $250 price. It's also the first time we've seen it go on sale (so far). One of the best things you'll get out of buying this doorbell camera is that it can record 4K video. Even better, it captures a wide view of your whole porch and makes it super easy to zoom in on your videos thanks to 10x Enhanced Zoom. This will make it easier to keep an eye on a package left in the corner, for instance, or check out a license plate of someone parked in front of your home. The camera keeps video in full color even after the sun goes down, switching to crisp black-and-white footage when it's truly pitch dark out.

LG is selling a blazing fast OLED QHD monitor, the envy of anyone who wants massive FPS counts for Counter-Strike or Valorant, for half off its retail price. If you're someone who gets panicked at the idea of having to play a computer game at a paltry 60 frames per second, I think I've found the best monitor deal for you. Today you can get an LG OLED gaming monitor for $499.99 on Amazon . That's about $150 above the baseline for affordable OLEDs right now but this one has a 480Hz panel, double the standard speed. The LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B (catchy!) looks pretty normal for an OLED at first glance.

'Here we have a leap in the erosion of our privacy rights through this slick technology that big tech promises will enrich our lives,' says Ryan Clarkson, one of the lawyers bringing a class-action suit against Meta over its privacy assurances. 'Here we have a leap in the erosion of our privacy rights through this slick technology that big tech promises will enrich our lives,' says Ryan Clarkson, one of the lawyers bringing a class-action suit against Meta over its privacy assurances. Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? People say they've been secretly filmed in their own home, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy? The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. "I've had one person who told me that their intentions were creepy," a man tells me over a video call, on condition of anonymity.

Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids' phones can backfire. Online safety experts say there's a better way. Pam Wisniewski's digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she'd been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she sought out the support and the community she'd lacked at home. She also discovered how thin the ice can be. "I sent my address to some guy in New Mexico to send me a mug with my name on it," she recalls. "And then I found a news story like five, 10 years later that he killed somebody." Those experiences set the course of her career.

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Microsoft is killing this 25-year-old Windows tool. Windows 11 preview update KB5120998 removes WMIC, a command-line tool used since Windows XP for admin and automation tasks. With the latest Windows 11 preview update (KB5120998), Microsoft is finally bidding farewell to a tool that has been part of the operating system since Windows XP: the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC). It's being removed from Windows 11 in an upcoming patch, and it'll affect both Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2. The announcement comes via Microsoft's official release notes for KB512098, meant for Release Preview Builds 26100.9267

Proton's Andy Yen Says It Will Have To Proton's CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI? In the eyes of many privacy advocates, AI is just another surveillance technology . It supercharges online tracking and real-world spying tools, sifts through vast troves of everyone's data to spit out its results, and then encourages users to share their deepest secrets and desires with a cloud-hosted large-language model. Surveillance capitalism made AI possible, and AI returns the favor by making surveillance more powerful and the businesses that run on it more data-rich and profitable than ever. Andy Yen is among the most influential voices in the tech industry who equates AI with privacy invasion. He says the push to integrate AI into every consumer tech product--whether people want it or not--is driving new users in droves to Proton's products, which are, put simply, the end-to-end encrypted versions of every Google service from Gmail to Google Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Meet. Yet Yen is anti-AI, he says, any more than he is anti-internet. In late June, Proton released the latest version of its very own AI chatbot, Lumo--just one way that Proton is integrating AI ever more deeply into its suite of tools, but seeking to do so in a way that's more voluntary and preserves users' privacy far more than the typical tech giant. That willingness to embrace the apparent contradiction between AI and privacy is just one way in which Yen's views don't cut cleanly across party lines--from current US politics to the lessons of Edward Snowden's leaks to the question of the best corporate structure for a tech company that's not solely designed to maximize profit. You can read our conversation about all of it here or listen wherever you get your podcasts. ANDY GREENBERG: I want to start by asking about your background and the origin story of Proton. You're a trained particle physicist. You worked at CERN, the nuclear research facility, but you were inspired by the leaks of Edward Snowden back in 2013 to create Proton, right? I'm not actually a tech person or even an entrepreneur by training, so I really happened into this field a little bit by accident. I used to work at the Large Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator.