TechByter Worldwide 2021-08-13: Dealing With Spam And Scams By Ignoring Them. Short Circuits. Spare Parts.

Spams and scams have been with us virtually from when the internet became available to the general public, but the threats are more severe than they've ever been and finding a way to reduce the volume has never been more important. In Short Circuits: Like the man who wasn't there (the 1983 film, not the 2001 motion picture of the same name) it's difficult to protect against something you can't detect, and that's a real threat on the internet. • The Windows PowerToys app was introduced with Windows 95, became dormant for more than a decade, and is now back with useful features for Windows 10. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Windows 11 might be released in October, or not. Bleeping Computer tries to read tea leaves in Microsoft messages. • If you ever need to find your Windows product key and can't locate the documentation or a label, there's an easy way to ask the computer for it. • Twenty years ago: High-speed internet without wires wasn't high speed by today's standards. Metricom's Ricochet service was one of the first to try, but it never really got off the ground.