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HP Labor Day sale: save up to $230 on a brand new 2020 HP Spectre x360 today

The HP Spectre x360, one of our favorite ultrabooks ever, just so happens to be disconnected this week in the HP Labor Day sale – great news if you’re looking to pick up one of the best ultrabooks around for work or college. There are a couple of different options to choose between, depending on…

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HP Labor Day sale: save up to $230 on a brand new 2020 HP Spectre x360 today

The HP Spectre x360, one of our favorite ultrabooks ever, just so happens to be disconnected this week in the HP Labor Day sale – great news if you’re looking to pick up one of the best ultrabooks around for work or college.

There are a couple of different options to choose between, depending on how much you have to spend. Right now, for example, you can buy an impressively-specced mid-range 13-inch HP Spectre x360 for just $1,069.99 (was $1,299.99) at HP. That’s a full $200 cheaper than you’d normally expect for this brand new, premium laptop – and a real bargain. 

It comes with a newly upgraded, and absolutely stunning, near bezel-less HD display, plus a 10th gen Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. These specs easily beat the comparative offerings from Dell and Apple at this price. 

15-inch HP Spectre x360 (2020) for $1,399.99 (was $1,499.99), or this HP Spectre 15 laptop for the same price. While a little more expensive than their 13-inch sibling, they’re both rocking an UHD 4K display that’s one of the sharpest you’ll find anywhere. A full suite of 10th gen Intel Core i7 processors, generous helpings of RAM and even Nvidia GeForce graphics card also mean these 15-inch ultrabooks are equally well-suited to work or play.

If your budget doesn’t quite stretch to the HP Spectre x360 (2020), fear not. We have plenty more options over on our best Labor Day sales page, including some great options from Dell. Take a look at our weekly-updated cheap laptop deals page too.

HP Labor Day sale: HP Spectre x360 deals today

HP Spectre x360 13 Touch laptop: $1,299.99 $1,069.99 at HP
Save $230 on a fantastic, brand-new HP Spectre x360 2020 right now in the HP Labor Day sale. The reduced price not only makes HP $200 cheaper than most other retailers now, but this model also boasts a higher spec with a 10th gen Intel Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Need more storage space? You can upgrade to a 512GB SSD for just $100 more as well.
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HP Spectre x360 15 Touch laptop: $1,499.99 $1,399.99 at HP
Want something a little bigger? This 15-inch 2020 HP Spectre x360 is one of the most powerful, most premium, and most versatile ultrabooks money can buy. Alongside the stunning 4K bezel-less touchscreen display, it has a 10th gen Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a GeForce MX330 graphics card – ensuring excellent performance.
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HP Spectre 15 Touch laptop: $1,599.99 $1,399.99 at HP
Alternatively, trade-in that two-in-one versatility for a little more power under the hood with this stunning 2020 HP Spectre 15. You’re getting the same Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and 4K UHD screen here, but trading up to a GTX 1650 graphics card – perfect if you want to indulge in a little bit of play as well as business.
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    Bitdefender Family parental control review

    If you’re looking for a comprehensive online security suite for your family that also includes parental controls, Bitdefender is one of the best options right now. It’s a well-known security provider offering an award-winning antivirus program, along with a password manager, VPN, and identity theft protection. But does its parental control offering, which is bundled

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    Bitdefender Family parental control review

    If you’re looking for a comprehensive online security suite for your family that also includes parental controls, Bitdefender is one of the best options right now. It’s a well-known security provider offering an award-winning antivirus program, along with a password manager, VPN, and identity theft protection.

    But does its parental control offering, which is bundled with its Family plans and not available via a standalone subscription or even a dedicated app, compete against the best parental control apps?

    Read on as we dissect the various parental control features it offers, what they cost, how easy the dashboard is to use every day, and what the top competitors offer.

      Bitdefender Premium Security Family subscription options:

    • $99.99/year at Bitdefender

    Bitdefender parental control review: Plans and pricing

    Bitdefender no longer offers its parental control features as a standalone subscription. You’d have to get one of its four family plans. But note that its entire suite of parental control features is available with each of these four plans.

    The Total Security Family plan starts at $79.99 for the first year and covers up to 25 devices across five family members. At this price, the cost boils down to around $16 per member per year, which is more affordable than many other parental control applications. Not to forget that, for the price, you also get 24/7 real-time antivirus protection for up to 25 devices, as well as a password manager.

    Bitdefender Family pricing

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    Next is the Premium Security Plan, which costs $99.99 for the first year and also comes with scam protection, AI-based scam protection, and a VPN with 4,000+ servers in 50+ countries. The Ultimate Security Family Plan and the Ultimate Security Plus Family Plan cost $119.99 and $199.99 for the first year, respectively.

    The former comes with dark web monitoring and identity theft protection features such as an identity protection score and real-time breach notifications, while the latter also includes $2 million in identity theft insurance, three-bureau credit monitoring, and other bank, credit card, and investment alerts.

    Bitdefender parental control review: Features

    One of the standout Bitdefender parental control features is the ability to set screen-time schedules for your children, who would only be able to access their devices during the allowed time intervals.

    Along with this, Bitdefender also offers several preset routines: Focus Time, Family Time, and Bedtime, which you can customize as per your child’s daily activity and schedule.

    Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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    There’s also a pretty handy internet time management feature, which allows you to control how much time your child spends on the internet during a day. A nice addition is the ability to reward extra screen time for your children for responsible online use.

    In addition to internet scheduling, parents can also choose to cut off internet access directly on their child’s device using Bitdefender’s Stop Internet feature.

    Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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    Bitdefender also offers predefined age-appropriate filtering categories to help you filter out inappropriate content such as porn, betting, or online gaming for your children. As with screen time, you can also fine-tune these filters to better suit your child’s day-to-day use.

    Apart from category-level filtering, parents can also allowlist or blocklist specific URLs individually, in case you want to go beyond the category selection.

    Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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    Parents can set up to five child profiles, each with the child’s name, photo, and birth date. Bitdefender automatically applies age-appropriate filtering as soon as the profile is created, which parents can then edit as per their needs.

    Along with this, there’s also location tracking, which helps you know where your child is on an interactive map at all times.

    Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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    Lastly, there’s Safe Search, which lets you remove explicit and harmful results from search engines, as well as YouTube restrictions, which ensure your child only views age-appropriate videos on the platform.

    However, note that content filtering and safe browsing require an active VPN connection to function, as per Bitdefender’s listing on the Google Play Store.

    Bitdefender parental control review: Interface and in-use

    Bitdefender parental control works across Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS. That said, Windows and Android get full, unrestricted enforcement of every feature, whereas macOS and iOS are noticeably more limited, largely due to Apple’s own platform restrictions.

    For instance, iOS content filtering runs through Apple’s Screen Time and not Bitdefender’s own engine. Parents have to create a child account through Apple ID, then Bitdefender’s app hooks into Apple’s Screen Time restrictions rather than doing its own independent content filtering.

    However, the setup is pretty simple. You just have to download the app on your child’s own device. Unlike other parental control applications, you can’t download the app on your child’s phone remotely – you’ll need physical access to the device to do so.

    One thing worth noticing is that, after the 2025 overhaul, parental control is no longer configured within the Bitdefender Central mobile app, but from the Bitdefender Central web dashboard, which can still be accessed through the mobile application.

    Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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    Once you’re on this dashboard, day-to-day use is genuinely easy. Bitdefender’s Activity Dashboard is filled with several graphs and charts, which allow you to check your child’s phone activity at just a glance.

    For example, there’s a bar chart showing their daily internet time over the past few days, as well as a pie chart showing their current day’s internet usage along with their remaining time. The dashboard also gives parents visibility into what’s actually being blocked and when.

    Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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    The Prevented Content Access panel is a running log of every link blocked on the child’s device over the past 7 or 30 days. This allows you to see whether your filtering settings are actually able to catch anything, or whether your child is repeatedly trying to search for restricted websites on their device.

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    Microsoft Defender briefly decided Google Search was malware

    You can pay every month for Office 365’s productivity tools, but you still can’t escape Microsoft Defender’s habit of turning everyday links into fake security alerts. On September 2, Office 365 subscribers ran into an unusual incident: Redmond’s endpoint antivirus engine began flagging Google Search results as potentially malicious URLs.Read Entire Article…

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    You can pay every month for Office 365’s productivity tools, but you still can’t escape Microsoft Defender’s habit of turning everyday links into fake security alerts. On September 2, Office 365 subscribers ran into an unusual incident: Redmond’s endpoint antivirus engine began flagging Google Search results as potentially malicious URLs.Read Entire Article…
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    5 Windows Security Settings You Should Never Skip Over

    Windows has a range of authentication methods for accessing your device, a firewall, an antivirus, a way to encrypt your drives and more…

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    Watch out for this fake Face ID Apple Pay pop-up scam

    Macworld The security, antivirus, and VPN company Malwarebytes has an interesting post on its Malwarebytes Labs blog detailing a new and sophisticated scam. The web-based trick is meant to make users think that they just made a big payment with Apple Pay, with the goal being to trick them into calling a fake “Apple Support”

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    The security, antivirus, and VPN company Malwarebytes has an interesting post on its Malwarebytes Labs blog detailing a new and sophisticated scam.

    The web-based trick is meant to make users think that they just made a big payment with Apple Pay, with the goal being to trick them into calling a fake “Apple Support” number…
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