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Benjamin Rockwell is here with Computer Talk Radio. There's a bunch in store for you this

week here on Computer Talk Radio. We've got Keith M. Cedar talking about buzzwords taking over our

space that are tired and worn out.

Marty, he's going to be talking about the dash lane password tool.

On the scam series, the loyalty points heist, which is going after untraceable items of, yes, distinct real value.

On the IT Pro series, Bossware has problems and reputation issues.

We've got listener questions from Trina, websites asking for authentication through Google and meta and all of that.

Is it safe?

And Lucy, with all the talk of e-waste, are we at the point where we can repair things again?

And Steve Keske is going to cover how technology has changed, how we get our news.

And Dr. Doreen Galley has a lot more from CES, 2026.

All of that, of course, on this week's Computer Talk Radio. The website, Computer Talk Radio.com,

Computer Talk Radio.com. And you can reach out to us there with your computer questions,

your technology concerns, whatever they may be. You can also phone me at 888 nerd 888.

That's 888637888.

Let's dive into the news from, well, we haven't covered in the last few weeks.

So I'm going to touch on most of this is from the last week.

But let's talk about Verizon, which has an end result that's not so great for customers.

On one hand, they had a massive outage that lasted as much as 10 to 12 hours for some 12 million customers, and they were only getting

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