Welcome to the Tech Name Right Home for Wednesday, December 13th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Apple has a new tool to help you if your iPhone gets stolen.

There's a huge Tesla recall related to

autopilot. More AI tools from Google. How is X doing? You know, financially speaking,

and Netflix's first ever what we watched report.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Apple has released a new security setting called stolen device protection.

If you enable it, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets

when your device is not in a familiar location. This comes after a whole slew of iPhone

thievry that has been happening recently as described by Joanna Stern in the journal.

Quote, the journal reported on a nationwide spade of thefts

where criminals used iPhone owners pass codes to change their

Apple accounts, access saved passwords, steal money,

and lock them out of their iCloud stored photos and videos.

Thieves in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Minneapolis, and other cities watch iPhone users tap in

their pass codes before stealing the target's devices. These thefts resulted in losses far beyond phones,

as the Journal's reporting showed,

because Apple's security settings gave victims few ways of preventing harm

once their pass codes fell into the wrong hands.

We have heard from hundreds of people over the past year whose iPhones and digital lives were

stolen.

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