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It seems innocuous enough: a “share” button that invites a friend or colleague to take a peek at your current AI chat session, perfect for chewing over the model’s replies or reviewing the slideshow decks, graphs, or other artifacts it created. Time and again, though, we’ve seen shared AI chats leak over the internet. It’s happened to ChatGPT users and Claude subscribers, and Meta’s Muse is now the latest AI service to spill secrets on the web. This isn’t an issue of rogue AI agents getting chatty about your private data. Instead, it’s a much older digital tool — a garden-variety URL — that’s

If you’re of a certain age, “PHP” may invoke memories of early web development in the 1990s. In the decades since, the scripting language has hummed along in the background, used by popular platforms like WordPress. But just this week, it suddenly got enormous attention as the internet lit up with alarm over two high-risk (“critical”) vulnerabilities. If you’re not a server administrator, you may be wondering what the danger really is. In fact, if the admins for the websites you use or run were quick enough, you may have not noticed a thing. So what is PHP? And does it affect you? Here’s what

Filing out all the paperwork for a new apartment or home mortgage can be tough enough, but there’s one gotcha that can be particularly annoying: detailing the past addresses where you’ve lived over the past five, 10, or even 20 years, including dates for when you moved in and out. That tripped me up last year as I was completing a co-op application, leaving me to dig through my files for leases dating back a decade or longer. When did I move into that Brooklyn apartment on Henry Street, and what was the apartment number again? I got my address history ducks in a row eventually, but there’s an