A Huge Intel Security Hole Could Slow Down Your PC Soon

Did You Know? When people drink to the point that they don’t remember things, it isn’t that they don’t remember those things the next day, but that the excessive alcohol consumption actually interferes with the ability of their brain to form new long-term memories (i.e. from recording, in a manner of speaking, the events in the first place). Geek Trivia The Only Predator That Routinely Preys On Skunks Is The? Coyote → Badger → Great Horned Owl → Red Fox → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. 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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Fix a Stuck or Repeating Key on Your Mechanical Keyboard How to Block Inappropriate Websites Using Google Wifi How to Remove Apple Music from the iPhone’s Music App A Huge Intel Security Hole Could Slow Down Your PC Soon You Should Turn Off Autofill in Your Password Manager How to Change the Alarm Delay for the Nest Secure How to Stop Microsoft Word from Underlining Contractions as Errors How to Fix Blank Google Maps In Chrome How to Set Up Google Family to Share Your Google Services How to Set Up Your Own Home VPN Server Today's Review Geek Articles 9 Products To Help Make Your Dumb Car Smart Apple Will Replace Your Old Battery, Whether It’s Failing Or Not Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Is Completely Busted Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Append In the context of files and records, Append refers to the adding of a file to the end of another file or the adding of data/fields to the end of a record. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Blockchain announcement sends stock of Hooters franchisee soaring Building a blockchain-based rewards program for Hooters sounds like a dumb idea, but...actually, we can't bring ourselves to write a counterpoint. [Ars Technica] Spotify is being sued by a major music publisher for $1.6 billion Wixen, which licenses music from Tom Petty, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, Missy Elliott, and Janis Joplin, claims Spotify does not have proper permission to play their songs. [The Verge] Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine Ads are coming to the Amazon Echo platform, but that probably shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. [Gizmodo] How to Fix a Stuck or Repeating Key on Your Mechanical Keyboard Mechanical keyboards are great! But they’re also more complex than conventional keyboards. While they’re less likely to fail entirely, all those individual components mean you’re likely to have issues with certain switches—one for each key, somewhere between 60 and 110 of them, depending on the size of your keyboard. Read This Article → How to Block Inappropriate Websites Using Google Wifi There are a lot of “bad” websites on the internet—you know, things you wouldn’t really want your kids to look at. The problem is, it’s hard to constantly monitor what kids are doing online. The good news is that you can easily block inappropriate websites using Google Wifi. Read This Article → How to Remove Apple Music from the iPhone’s Music App Apple Music is heavily integrated into your iPhone's Music app. This is great if you're a subscriber, but the constant prompts and reminders to join get pretty tiresome if you're not. The good news is you can remove Apple Music from the Music app. This will make it much more like the old Music app. Read This Article → A Huge Intel Security Hole Could Slow Down Your PC Soon Intel chips have a massive design flaw, and both Microsoft and the Linux kernel developers are scrambling to fix it. The security hole can be patched, but the patches will make PCs (and Macs) with Intel chips slower. Read This Article → You Should Turn Off Autofill in Your Password Manager Advertisers have found a new way to track you. According to Freedom to Tinker, a few ad networks are now abusing tracking scripts to capture the email addresses that your password manager auto-fills on websites. Read This Article → How to Change the Alarm Delay for the Nest Secure With the Nest Secure, you have a certain amount of time between arming your system and leaving the house, or between entering your home and disarming the system. Here’s how to customize that time window. Read This Article → How to Stop Microsoft Word from Underlining Contractions as Errors Microsoft Word will mark contractions like “I’m”, “don’t”, and “doesn’t”, as grammatical errors, showing that dashed line under them. For more casual documents, this can be annoying. Read This Article → How to Fix Blank Google Maps In Chrome Do you ever go to Google Maps on your computer, only to see a blank mother-of-pearl grid? It’s really annoying, and it doesn’t happen for any obvious reason. It’s still possible to use Google Maps when it gets like this—you can use search and find specific addresses—but the core functionality is more or less shot. It looks like this: Read This Article → How to Set Up Google Family to Share Your Google Services If you pay for a book on Google Play Books, your significant other should be able to read it, too. The same goes for movies, music, and even apps or games—if you make a purchase, everyone in the family should be able to enjoy it. Thanks to Google Family, they can. Read This Article → How to Set Up Your Own Home VPN Server Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are very useful, whether you’re traveling the world or just using public Wi-Fi at a coffee shop in your hometown. But you don’t necessarily have to pay for a VPN service—you could host your own VPN server at home. Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download