Always-on devices can quietly boost your energy use. Here are some settings to change -- and some devices you might want to ...

Smart TVs sold by Samsung, LG, and Roku collect a continuous fingerprint of everything displayed on screen, including ...

Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows uses a persistent device identifier that can link activity from the same computer ...

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how ...

The big picture: People have grumbled about Windows telemetry for years, to the point that an entire cottage industry of tools that clean up the OS now exists just to strip the tracking bits out.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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