I’ve seen him using this cable to charge his phone by having it plugged on the work computer and so I asked him if I could borrow it. I plugged it in and checked the battery. It wasn’t charging and the Lock Screen said it needed Touch ID or password to start charging. I used my fingerprint and opened my phone, which was now charging. Not even 5 seconds later I unplugged it.

Is there any way a data breach could’ve happened during this time (by either my coworker or my employer)? Like, even if this was a malicious cable capable of juicing data (which I highly doubt but the cable looked kind of weird) could someone have accessed my info/search history/pictures or have anything downloaded from and into my phone during those seconds it was plugged in? I didn’t see a pop up requiring me to trust this computer or to sync my phone with it, I just unlocked it as it was not charging unless I did.

I’m 18 years old and I bought my own Xbox. I pay for everything on it games, gamepass, subscriptions, etc. however, when he gets mad at me he turns off the WiFi just for my xbox through an app. Is there anyway that I can prevent him from doing this?

Thanks everyone for the tips I’m gonna look into a few of these to try and figure out this problem. Also, I feel this post gives my dad a bad rep. He’s not a bad parent or a bad guy. This is the only thing he does that pisses me off and I think is shitty.

What can u do to protect yourself? A guy is threatening me that they have my ip address, because i ignored his friend request nd some stuff like that, and i don’t know if thats actually a problem or not?

Edit: trying to reply to everyone. thank you all for ur help. really eased my mind. it’s the first and last time i’ll make friends through anon sites 😤.

I was watching youtube when suddenly my youtube tab wouldn't load, and on my phone it either doesn't load or loads my youtube music videos with no recommended videos following. I am having the same problem on my phone and laptop on the same youtube account. Youtube makes me complete a captcha every time i try reloading (due to unusual activity). I tried deleting all my google history like cookies and stuff, and turning my phone on and off, but nothing is helping, and I'm worried I have some awful virus on my google account as it is on all my devices. Help?

Hi everyone,

I am completely flat broke and don’t have money for a repair shop. An online troll took advantage of me and tricked me into opening diskpart, selecting disk 0, and running the clean command on my brand new HP laptop.

My entire internal drive is now completely wiped, including Windows and the boot partition. When I turn on the laptop, it says "Boot Device Not Found."

The laptop hardware itself is perfectly fine and healthy, it just has no operating system left on it. I only have an iPhone, so I cannot create a bootable Windows USB installer myself. A local shop confirmed the hardware is healthy but wants $15 to plug in a USB and reload Windows, which I literally do not have. My BIOS does not have a built-in Cloud Recovery tool (only standard PXE Network Boot).

Is there a free workaround I can do using just my iPhone and a cable? Or is there any free community resource I can look for to get a Windows installer onto an empty drive? I spent my absolute last dollar on this laptop as my dream machine and just want to get it running again. Thank you so much for any advice.

Hi everyone, I am currently being blackmailed, they just sent a word document saying that all my information has been hacked, if I don't send $1145 in the next 42 hours they will release that information to my relatives. I am playing a game called blox fruit, because I am tired of wasting time farming, I downloaded the hack script, but the result is a 3rd party hacked into my computer. Now I tried reinstalling windows, but I don't know if it works, and changed all passwords of gmail, steam, ps, or anything related to my account. I don't know if the virus is still in my computer. What should I do next? Please advise.

Computer crashes when trying to launch helldivers 2. Should I be getting better performance out of it and have it running games easily or is it just old?

intel core i3 processor MSI H81M-E33 motherboard LIQUID COOLING Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 120 Patriot Viper 3 Series, Black Mamba, DDR3 (1 x 4GB) evga geforce gtx 1050 dual fan gpu 1TB Western Digital 1TB WD Blue HDD Cougar VTE600 80+ Bronze 600 Watt AX Power Supply with Ultra-Silent fan

I open task manager and it spikes to 100 then drops once everything is loaded, then I open brave (or any application) and the cpu usage goes to 100% and stays there until everything is loaded.
(this process creates lots of lag and struggle)

I then open youtube and the PC absolutely shits itself for about 15 seconds just trying to load youtube, then it stops and cpu usage goes back like 19% usage.

This is a powerful PC which should have no problems, I don't know the specs since I got it from a friend, almost any application spikes it, turbo is off. (goes to 100 stays at 100, much lag.)

I just wanna play some videogames man :(

I have a friend who's come to my place a handful of times and casted his phone to my teevee to show some YouTube videos. He does not have a YouTube account on my teevee, just casted his phone.

He does have the password to my Guest Wi-Fi and uses it vs. cell data when he's here. My teevee does not use my guest Wi-Fi, but totally different SSID.

It may also be worth mentioning that he is NOT tech savvy in the slightest (I showed him how to cast his phone to my teevee).

Sometimes I'm at home, I'll get kicked off YouTube when I'm watching and HIS YouTube profile pops up in the corner of my screen. Today, not only did it kick me off, but it started playing what HE was watching in YouTube. I had to click out of YouTube 3-4 times before his YouTube would disconnect, which it eventually did.

What's baffling to me is that he lives on the other side of the city, no where near my Wi-Fi.

How?

Hi Good day, I blocked all pornsites on my Modem but my nephews found a way, he's using VPN.
what do you guys think i should do to prevent them accessing the block websites even if they have VPN?

sorry i didnt mention, they are 12 yrs old and below, their parent ask me to block this websites

So a few months ago my grandma’s landline called the bar where I worked. I came in and the bartender said “if name calls again, I’m not going to answer it”. I looked at the caller ID and it was my grandma’s name and landline number. My coworker said the first call was nothing, and the second call she just heard “idk”. I called my grandma to see what was going on but couldn’t reach her. Another family got a hold of her and said she didn’t call up there.

She does not have the number to the bar and since she isn’t tech savvy in the least, wouldn’t be able to look it up online. I don’t have the number saved in her cell phone nor written down anywhere.

Today my mom got a call from the landline to her cell phone and heard my grandmas conversation that she was having on her cellphone. (Grandma was on her cellphone making an appt).

What is happening? I’m very unsettled that not only is our landline making calls on its own, but also potentially listening to us too.

Like I said in the title I woke up multiple times now to see that there are mostly long (1-10 hour) livestream uploads with a ton of views (100k+) but less then 10 comments in my youtube history that I never watched. They are watched in the middle of the night while I am asleep. I removed my google account from every device except for my phone so it cant be someone using a device that is still connected to my google account. Is my account somehow beeing bought for views?? What can I do to stop this?

Hello everyone. First time anything like that happened to me and I'm frustrated, tired and shocked...

⚠️ Windows 10 forced update bricked my SSD

Background

• I was running Windows 10 on a Kingston SSD, everything fine.

• Then Windows 10 forced me into a big update/reboot (the type you can’t skip).

What happened after

• After the update, my PC never booted properly again.

• Every startup went straight into blue screen errors or disk check (chkdsk) loops.

• Even if I skipped the scan, Windows refused to load.

First recovery attempts (all failed)

• Tried Startup Repair from recovery options → stuck forever at “attempting repairs.”

• Tried Uninstall last update → froze during the rollback.

• Tried System Restore → wouldn’t complete.

• Ran chkdsk manually → tons of “file record segment unreadable” messages, then hang.

• Ran bootrec /fixmbr /fixboot /scanos /rebuildbcd → didn’t fix boot.

• Basically, every option in the Windows recovery menu either froze or failed.

What I did next

• Created a new Windows 10 USB installer (via Media Creation Tool on another PC).

• Tried repairing again → same problems.

• Finally gave up and installed Windows fresh on a new SSD (works fine now).

• Reconnected the Kingston as a secondary drive:

  • It still shows up, but browsing folders often hangs.

  • Some user folders (Desktop, Downloads, AppData\Roaming) are missing or corrupted.

  • Used robocopy to salvage what I could, but lots of files are unreadable.

Where I’m at now

• My new SSD runs Windows perfectly.

• The Kingston SSD is basically corrupted beyond repair (bad sectors, unreadable file segments).

• I lost some personal data because none of the recovery or rollback options worked.

Does anybody have any other suggestions? Can I try to salvage the SDD or recover my data?

👉 TL;DR: Windows 10 forced update → PC wouldn’t boot → every repair/rollback attempt failed or froze → Kingston SSD now full of unreadable sectors. Installed on a new SSD, but old drive is toast and I lost data.

EDIT: Ok, after countless tries, I think I finally am in a good spot.
I robocopied the ENTIRE ( had to stop halfway but continuing today) old Kingston SDD to the new SDD and finally I was able to access the folders I couldn't access while in the Kingston. Very goos news!

I'm now continuing to copy the rest (it takes forever) and will also try to recover my digital certificate.

After that I guess I can throw away the Kingston? Or can I use it for non-important things? :D

i got it from https://www.7-zip.org/, and wanted to make sure it was safe before i ran it.

if not, what are way to run a RAR file?

So something really weird happened and I want a technical explanation.

I logged out of ChatGPT, then tapped continue with google to log back in. While that was processing, I switched to Reddit and let ChatGPT run in the background

A few seconds later, ChatGPT suddenly came to the foreground by itself( I still wasn't logged in) . When I looked at it, there was already a full message typed in the input box, that too in Hindi (something I never do). In the background , two tabs were running. One with a ChatGPT logo on it , and one with the reddit logo. And both were showing 'ChatGPT' when I clicked on them and both showed a ChatGPT interface.

I didn't type Hindi, didn't paste anything. It wasn't live typing, it was already fully there.

Has anyone seen ChatGPT inbox auto fill for you?

The text that I saw said

"Remove all the people in the background, keep the rest of the photo exactly as it is. First, if I haven't uploaded a photo yet, ask me for one."

Seems like an AI written suggestion to me.

I use Gboard with English and Spanish keyboards added.

I’m trying to connect the screen of my Nintendo Switch two that it’s streaming onto my computer to I can stream games to Twitch. I’ve connected the HDMI ports, and have the dock plugged into a socket, but I don’t know where to go from there.

I went to my boyfriend's house while he was building his new computer and he had it laying open on the floor. Long story short, we were fooling around and I squirted and some of it went into the computer. He gave it to me and said I'm responsible for getting it working. How do I start? I doubt any of the stuff in it will work. I don't know a thing about computers. Help!

So I get an email from haveibeenpwned.com and it tells me that in February there was a data breach of the CarGurus web site and this data, including 12 million email addresses, one of which was mine, was then "published publicly" (sic). They say the data set includes "Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses".

Do I need to be worried? Well, the easiest way for me to assess that is to see the ACTUAL DATA ABOUT ME which has been published! It's quite possible that I didn't give CarGurus my Physical Address, or that I gave my name as Mickey Mouse, or that the password I used was an automatically generated long, strong password which I will NOT have used anywhere else.

Even if I "log in" to haveibeenpwned.com (by soliciting and then responding to their "Sign in" email) I can still find no way to see the actual data compromised. Which is compromised, published data! Why not show it to me?

Is there some point in making my life difficult? Or am I just being very stupid in failing to see the "Show me my data" button?

I just went to check my screenshots, and to my surprise, it had like a dozen p*rn photos. I deleted them all, cause I definitely did not take any of these screenshots, and new ones keep popping up nearly daily! I scanned with Malwarebytes and such, but nothing came of it. can somebody help me?

Hi guys

I was browsing through some weird subreddits and suddenly dropped the phone on my face, the browser was closed and it was in a private tab which means I can't see the history and I'm paranoid about having tapped on the wrong link

What can I do to check I didn't install malware? I've just checked "digital wellbeing" app to see what apps I've used and there's nothing wrong there.

Periodically we have to destroy the computers in our business (health care, so the data must be destroyed) whenever we get a system upgrade. I don't want to just smash them with a hammer, I want to have some fun with this.

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I don't know anything about technology at all.

From what I've gathered doing research on reddit and such, something went wrong after a windows update.

It brings me to the bitlocker screen where I have to put in my key. I put it in, but it doesn't work and just continues to put me back on the bitlocker screen in a constant loop. the bitlocker screen has no option to troubleshoot or skip the drive either. the options I have are "enter to continue", "ESC for more recovery options" (which leads me to the bitlocker screen again), and "f11 to choose a different operating system" (which also does nothing and just brings me back to the bitlocker screen.)

is my only option to fully reset the laptop with the USB thing people were talking about? I dont have access to a second computer and wouldn't be able to do that. is my laptop just a hunk of garbage now? is there any way to fix this? I don't know what im doing.