One tech tip: Home for the holidays? Show relatives you care with some tech support


As scammers find new ways to steal money and personal information, you and your family should be more vigilant about who to trust. Artificial intelligence and other technologies are giving bad actors craftier tools to work with online. — AP

NEW YORK: It's time for the holidays, which means robust family conversations and seemingly never-ending courses of food. But for the more tech-savvy among us, the journey home could also mean we'll be called on to provide a backlog of tech support to parents, grandparents and other family members.

And with generative AI being used to supercharge some major cyber scams this year, it's also a good time to teach and not just fix.

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