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  <description>New free tools and changes from UtilForge. Tools that run on your own phone or computer, so nothing you check is uploaded.</description>
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    <title>Official help, country by country</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A page that links to guidance from CISA and ENISA and to official reporting bodies in 20 countries and territories, for anyone who has lost money to fraud online.</description>
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    <title>Private Files has been retired</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Its tools, Redaction Studio, Compress PDF and iPhone Photo Converter, are in AI Tools for Work and Family Safety Tools.</description>
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    <title>Release Check</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Checks PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files before release. Free to check; $29 for the full version.</description>
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    <title>AI Tools for Work and Family Safety Tools</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Every tool in one download, arranged by team for organisations ($119) or by need for families and students (pay what you want).</description>
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    <title>Seven more kinds of work, and new warning signs</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Tools for your work now covers publishers, PR and communications, social media creators, tourism and travel, education technology, humanitarian organisations and fintech. Before You Pay now spots fake recruiters who move to WhatsApp, pay-first jobs, fake brand deals and holiday rentals that ask you to pay away from the booking site. Before You Buy a Course now spots keyword sales, income requirements and pushy call bookings.</description>
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    <title>Five tools now say what they do</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Swap and Return is now Hide Names from AI, Check before you send it to an AI is now Before You Paste into AI, Did the black boxes work? is now Is It Really Blacked Out?, Omelette is now Sort My Saved-for-Later Reading, and the Take-Down Kit is now Delete My Details. Old links still work.</description>
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    <title>New free tool: Sort My Saved-for-Later Reading</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Paste or open your newsletters, saved emails, bookmarks and notes, and get one document sorted by the topics you choose, with repeats removed and a list of newsletters you could unsubscribe from.</description>
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    <title>Insurance brokers, accountants and property agents</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>New sections for insurance and financial advice, accountants and bookkeepers, and property and letting agents, and a full page for insurance.</description>
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    <title>New free tool: Subscription Check</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Paste your own bank statement, or type your subscriptions, to find every repeat payment, the yearly total, overlaps, price rises and payments nobody agreed to, and how to cancel.</description>
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    <title>Pages for healthcare, HR and small businesses</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>What the tools do for healthcare staff, HR and people teams and small businesses, and what they cannot do.</description>
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    <title>What's new, with no mailing list</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A page and a feed, so you can follow new tools without giving anyone an email address.</description>
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    <title>New free tool: Before You Buy a Course</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Check a money-making course, coaching offer, side hustle or trading academy for the warning signs consumer regulators describe, see how many sales it takes to earn the price back, and get help with a refund if you have already paid.</description>
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    <title>New free tool: Can I Afford This?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>See what a loan, a credit card or buy now pay later really costs, plan your pay around your bills, compare two ways of paying off debts, and find free debt help where you live.</description>
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    <title>New free tool: Before You Invest</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Check a trading app, crypto coin, forex course, loan or pension offer for the tricks financial regulators warn about, and find the official register of firms in your country.</description>
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    <title>Before You Pay now checks messages</title>
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    <description>Paste a text, email or WhatsApp that asks you to pay a fee, tap a link, send a code or move money, and it points out the signs of a scam.</description>
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    <title>Hide Names from AI knows more kinds of numbers</title>
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    <description>Phone numbers, number plates, ID numbers and currencies from English-speaking countries across North America, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Africa, plus health, hotel room and booking numbers.</description>
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    <description>How the tools help people in healthcare, legal work, retail, hospitality, schools, universities, the arts, museums, journalism, charities, government, investing and families, and what they cannot do.</description>
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