How to Reset Your Nintendo Switch Before You Sell It
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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The Switch 2 is finally out this week, if you were lucky enough to secure a preorder, anyway. If you’re upgrading, you might want to sell your older Switch, if only to offset the higher price tag this time around (to say nothing of tariff impacts). Before you pop your trusty console on eBay, you […]
Meta Apps Have Been Covertly Tracking Android Users’ Web Activity for Months
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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I don’t expect Meta to respect my data or my privacy, but the company continues to surprise me with how low they’re willing to go in the name of data collection. The latest such story comes to us from a report titled “Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android.” In short, Meta and Yandex […]
You Can Now Curate Your Public Reddit Profile
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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Reddit is giving users more control to choose which activity other users can see on their public profiles. A new “curate my profile” feature allows users to selectively show or hide posting and commenting activity, as well as follower counts and NSFW content and communities. What’s changed with Reddit profile settings With new “Content and […]
The Nothing Phone 3 Has a Launch Date, but I’m Not Sure the Price Is Right
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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When I think of Nothing (the phone company), I think of value. The Nothing Phone 3a, for example, is $379, but it doesn’t feel like it: It looks cool, it performs well, and checks many of the boxes you’d expect from a phone that costs twice as much, if not more. These phones aren’t perfect, […]
GhatGPT Can Now Remember Conversations for Free Users Too
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ChatGPT introduced its Memory feature more than a year ago now. This feature lets users save particular details about their life or work in the ChatGPT memory bank, so they don’t need to repeat them with each new prompt. But using the Memory feature as it launched frequently required manually checking which information was saved […]
Freddie Mac’s Serious Delinquency Rates Are Down, While Multifamily Distress is the Highest Since 2011
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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There’s some good news regarding late mortgage payments. Freddie Mac, the government-affiliated home loan backer, reported that serious delinquencies for single-family homes—individuals three months or more behind on their mortgage […]
Do You Need an LLC as a Real Estate Investor?
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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Some of the most common questions rookie investors ask—especially in places like the BiggerPockets forums—are: The short answer? It depends. Today, I’m breaking down the key questions you should ask […]
How 2025 Tax Changes Could Reshape Real Estate Investing
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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It’s not exactly breaking news: Taxes change. But what’s brewing for 2025 could be the biggest shake-up in real estate tax policy in a generation. And whether you’re a long-time […]
Does Age Matter? The Cash Flow Calculation Impacting New vs. Old Homes
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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There’s a quiet shift happening in the 2025 real estate market—and if you’re an investor, it’s one you can’t afford to ignore. For years, new construction homes were seen as […]
How to Watch Pornhub Even If It’s Blocked In Your State
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The internet is changing rapidly, and the (rather large) chunk of it devoted to adult entertainment is no exception. Porn sites in an increasing number of U.S. states must now verify that their users are adults by requiring them to submit a government-issued ID or some other suitable method of proving their identity. Understandably, this […]
Android Users Will Finally Be Able to Sync Their Garmin Fitness Data
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Health Connect app is expanding its “sharing data” function, allowing Android users to sync up their health information across multiple apps. The announcement came during Google’s developer livestream at I/O 2025. Starting in June, Google says Health Connect will pick up Runna, Mi Fitness, […]
Watch Out for Fake Websites Posing As Booking.com
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Scammers are targeting travelers planning their vacations in a new campaign that spoofs popular online travel agency (OTA) Booking.com. The scheme, identified by Malwarebytes Labs, uses malicious CAPTCHA forms to gain remote access to victims’ devices, allowing threat actors to harvest personal and financial information. How the Booking.com scam works The campaign begins with links […]
How to Protect Your Car From Identity Theft
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We may earn a commission from links on this page. No matter how locked down your identity information is, there’s probably a gaping hole in your security efforts: your car. Just like you, your car is linked to a few numbers. Unlike you, it rolls around with those numbers—your license plate number and the vehicle’s […]
I Tried Bing’s Free AI Video Generator, and It’s No Match for the Paid Options
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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AI video generation is a rapidly developing field, with the likes of Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora constantly out-doing each other. We are approaching the time when it might be difficult to discern some AI generated video content from reality. But all those gains are limited to the top-tier paid services. To get access to […]
Samsung Will Soon Delete Your Inactive Account Unless You Log In
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- Posted on June 4, 2025
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If you’ve been online for longer than you care to admit, you undoubtedly have an account or two you don’t use anymore. My password manager is full of logins that I haven’t accessed in years, and I know I have accounts that I haven’t even thought about, let alone logged into, that never even made […]








