
GeekSpin - 2 days 9 hours ago
Passkeys were supposed to be the password killer. They eradicated the struggle to remember a password for the 47th time. No more password resets or security questions asking about the name of your first pet from 15 years ago. Instead, passkeys use your device, biometrics, and cryptographic keys to give you access to accounts. Very […] Read the original article here: Experts warn that one virus can unlock every future Google passkey...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 9 hours ago
The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi's origins trace back in part to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data processing tools they'd developed also proved capable at extracting clean messages from any chaotic, echoing signal environment . Echoes are echoes, after all, whether from distant star systems or from the far corner of the house. I research...

Newser - 2 days 9 hours ago
Los Angeles' mayor wants her city's police department to ditch its main license plate scanner vendor. Karen Bass this week called on the LAPD to end its relationship with Flock Safety, saying the Atlanta-based company has "lost the trust of Angelenos," reports the Los Angeles Times . That's particularly true among...

Variety - 2 days 10 hours ago
Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive drew $1.39 billion in sales from April 1-June 30, the quarter during which it opened presales for “Grand Theft Auto 6.” That figure is not broken down by title, but Take-Two notes the “largest contributors” to the overall number were “‘NBA 2K,’ the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series, ‘Toon Blast,’ ‘Match […]...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 12 hours ago
From courtrooms to strip clubs, backlash is building against Meta's smart glasses.

Vox - 2 days 12 hours ago
The fake identities were the part that stopped me. In late July, according to a report published this week by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI), an Anthropic model called Claude Mythos 5 tried to sneak malicious code into a piece of free, volunteer-built software. It created several fake accounts on GitHub , where programmers review one another’s work, and used them to talk the project’s volunteers into accepting its code. When one of those volunteers caught it, the model...

NY Post - 2 days 12 hours ago
The new watch, on sale today, tracks fitness and sleep, measures antioxidants in the skin, and an even do a body composition scan.

New York Times - 2 days 12 hours ago
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make changes to the way young people can use its platform...

ABC News - 2 days 13 hours ago
Sydney Towle, known for her social media content about living with a rare cancer, has died at 26...

Sky News - 2 days 20 hours ago
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been ordered to pay $567m ( 421m) to address the harm caused to children on its platforms.