Phish are evolving. In the past, large schools of phish were easily recognized as scams by looking for stupid stuff in the allegedly-urgent emails. There were spelling and grammar errors, capitalization errors that match other languages but not English, bad-logic lines like ‘in your nearest post office,’ and most important, the sending email address is some random international address that you don’t do business with. Logos of vendors were frequently out-of-date, and the links were clearly going to links ending in two-character country codes. AI is cleaning up those issues, and the phish are looking more like real business emails….

Continues in the free March 2026 PC Updater News, or read back issues here.

Some large businesses are changing how they work, or perhaps don’t, as of the start of 2026. Microsoft has mangled the Office trademarks yet again; Office, formerly known as “Microsoft 365”, has not become the “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” because, well, priorities of the corporation surpass the priorities of the few, or the one.

Also, high memory prices, and AI is NOT in free Gmail. A new year means it’s time to try for a paperless office, or at least not adding to the stacks. Here is the PDF software that you’ll need for that, all in the free January 2026 PC Updater News. Or get back issues and a subscription here.