💰 Xfinity owes you

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🤔 What am I? I fit in your palm, snapped open with a click and needed a pencil when things got messy. I captured your favorite songs straight off the radio, commercials and all. Find the answer at the end!  

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“Hi, Kim, if I’m already using Face ID or my fingerprint to log into everything, why would I still need a password manager like NordPass?” — Jane in Austin, listening on 99.7 FM/590 AM News Radio KLBJ

Great question, Jane. A lot of people think the same thing, and the answer matters more than you’d guess.

Face ID and your fingerprint aren’t logging you into your accounts. They’re unlocking your phone, so it can type the password for you. The password still exists. It’s still stored somewhere. And it can still get stolen when a company you’ve never heard of gets breached.

Your face unlocks the vault. It’s not the vault.

81% of data breaches trace back to weak or stolen passwords. The average person manages more than 100 of them. Most people reuse the same few across everything. You know you do.

Face ID and fingerprints don’t fix that. They just make it faster to get into the device holding your passwords. When your bank or that random shopping site gets hacked, your password leaks, and your face has nothing to do with it.

That’s where passkeys come in. A passkey is a unique encrypted key that lives on your device. You unlock it with your face or fingerprint. Nothing to type. Nothing to steal. No database storing your credentials that can get hacked.

Passkeys log you in 17 times faster than a password plus two-factor. Success rate is 98%. Passwords fail 98% of the time. It’s not close.

Microsoft made passkeys the default for all new accounts last May, driving a 120% jump in use. Google has 800 million accounts using them. Amazon had 175 million users create one in a single year.

Sounds great, but.

You probably have 50 to 200 passwords and maybe a few passkeys you set up without realizing it. You’re managing them during a transition happening whether you’re ready or not.

Here’s the problem with built-in tools. Apple’s Keychain only works on Apple devices. Google’s only works in Chrome. Mix an iPhone with a Windows computer, and your passkeys don’t follow you. 

Reader Ron hit this wall. He set up a passkey on his Windows 11 laptop, tried to do the same on his iPhone, and the phone ignored the Windows passkey entirely. Instead, it defaulted to his Authenticator app, which told him it doesn’t support passkeys. Dead end. 

Here’s why it happened.

Your Windows passkey lives in Microsoft’s ecosystem. Your iPhone passkey lives in Apple’s iCloud Keychain. They don’t talk to each other. The solution is a third-party vault that sits between them and syncs across both. That’s exactly what NordPass does.

NordPass, a sponsor of my radio show, is the only vault that works everywhere. iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Cybernews named it the best password manager for passkeys in 2026.

✅ Right now, NordPass is 52% off, just $1.43 a month. Less than a cup of coffee to lock down every account you own. Get the deal today.

So yes, Jane. Keep using Face ID. But make sure what’s behind it is worth protecting.

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⚖️ Felony friend request: Wow. Tennessee lawmakers introduced an absurdly broad bill that would’ve made it a Class A felony to train AI for things like emotional support, companion style interaction or human-like relationship building, the same felony category as first-degree murder. They’ve narrowed it since then to focus on suicide-related guardrails and protections for minors. The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced it 7 to 0, but it’s not law and probably will be flattened in federal court on First Amendment grounds. What a wild footnote for AI panic. 

Xfinity owes you: Comcast agreed to a $117.5 million settlement over a 2023 breach that exposed data from about 36 million Xfinity customers. Got a breach notice from them in December 2023? You’re automatically in the settlement class. Claim up to $10,000 for documented losses, up to five hours of lost time at $30 an hour or take $50 and three years of free identity protection. Go to comcastbreachsettlement.com now while you’re thinking about it. 

🚨 Bank got hacked: Bank with Chime? Check your account. Sounds like a cybercriminal group breached Chime’s internal servers after an April 1 outage, leaving customers locked out and unable to see balances. A bank outage on April Fools’ Day is rude enough. Allegedly getting hacked, too? Incredible. Personally, I like my banking boring. Even better, the suit says it may have been preventable, which is the phrase you never want anywhere near your checking account.

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Game on: Pop quiz. What’s the number one free app on the App Store? Not ChatGPT. Not Claude. Not Gemini or Meta AI. It’s the Netflix Game Controller app, which turns your phone into a remote for Netflix’s TV games (think Boggle, Pictionary, Overcooked! and Jackbox). The thing’s racked up over 1 million downloads this month. Netflix barely promoted it. Most folks don’t even know Netflix has games. You do, now.

🧬 Lab fast track: Ever waited on medical news and realized science moves like tectonic plates? That’s why this one caught my eye. AWS launched Amazon Bio Discovery, which uses an AI agent plus around 40 biology models, helping researchers sort data and rank 300,000 new antibody candidates for testing. The cool part? Jobs that used to eat up months can get compressed into weeks. I like any story where technology stops wasting human time and starts helping humans heal. 

⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Chatbots love sounding confident, even when they’re dead wrong. Make them show their work. Ask, “Is this factually correct as of today [insert date]? Search the web to confirm.” It can pull recent sources, sum up what it finds and share links you can compare. 

Trying to fit a scenic view into one little photo? Panoramic mode exists for a reason. On iPhone, open the Camera app, swipe left to Pano mode, start on the left side of what you want to capture, tap the shutter button and keep the phone steady as you pan to the right. Tap the shutter again when you’re done, and your iPhone stitches it into one long image. On Android, same thing. Open Camera > More > Panorama.

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CarPlay but prettier: This is new. You can change how CarPlay looks. Open Settings > Appearance and choose Always Dark or Automatic if you want light mode during the day. Then go to Settings > Customize Icons to pick Dark or Clear for that frosted iOS 26 look. More? Head to Settings > Wallpaper and give it a new background.

Amazon deals are lying to your face: Before you fall for that fake “limited-time” price, check the product on CamelCamelCamel. Paste in the Amazon link, and it shows the full price history, including drops by month, year or all time. You can also see the lowest price ever and the average, so you know whether to buy now or wait. JSYK: The sign-up or extension isn’t necessary. Simply use the site.

📝 Notes without the nonsense: Want a free note-taking app that is not stuffed with ads or tracking you? Check out Notesnook. You can journal, attach files, do math, create reminders and everything in between. FYI: It works offline, too, syncs when you’re back online and runs on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone, so your notes follow you everywhere.

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Screen-time meltdowns: Tired of the tantrums when the iPad goes away? Scientist (and mom) Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff was, too. So she researched it! In her book Dopamine Kids, she breaks down the neurobiology of why going cold turkey doesn’t work. She shares how to wean your kiddos off the screen here. 

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TikTok’s new favorite prank is a masterpiece. An employee ran a slow-burn con on his boss using AI-generated photos of a fake safety inspector who “showed up” on-site. 

He drip-feeds the images through Apple Messages like a thriller. First: “OSHA’s here.” Then: a photo of the guy squinting at a mangled tangle of electrical work. Then: “He just said ‘are you kidding me’ out loud.” 

Boss is sweating bullets. The inspector doesn’t exist. Somebody nailed it.

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🔜 Tomorrow: Your 401(k) is growing. It’s also bleeding. A hidden fee most people never spot could quietly drain thousands from your retirement every year. I’ll show you exactly where it’s hiding, what to do about it and the five-minute fix that plugs the leak for good.

The answer: Cassette tape. Before Spotify playlists and Bluetooth speakers, we had a pocket-size plastic rectangle to hold our music. Kids, you’d sit by the radio with one finger hovering over the record button, praying the DJ wouldn’t bulldoze the opening line of your favorite song.

If the tape got chewed up? Grab a pencil, stick it in the hole and twist like a pro surgeon. Bonus points if you ever made a breakup mix or hand-labeled your tapes in bubble letters.  

🎶 Cassette tapes have side A and side B. It’s only logical their successor would be the CD. (Oh, I heard a groan!)

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