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iOS 15 and macOS 12 take a small but significant step towards a password-less future

The Verge

But Apple thinks its new Passkeys solution can solve these problems, as shown by the comparison table below. Instead of creating a username and password during the sign-up process like normal, Apple authentication experience engineer Garrett Davidson just enters a username and allowed the app to register his Face ID as a Passkey.

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HP ZBook Studio G8 review: works hard, plays harder

The Verge

The G8 looks like a high-end Windows machine, and it’s easy to see where it fits in HP’s catalog next to the dashing Spectre X360. It has a generously sized Windows Precision trackpad, and its keyboard is just as delightful to type on as some of HP’s other recent models we’ve reviewed.

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Small businesses try to survive around Amazon in Seattle as company shifts remote work policy again

GeekWire

Sitting in his food truck Spice on Curve , serving authentic Indian cuisine in the heart of Amazonia on Tuesday, Salem said he’s down to about 40 customers a day. A worker at the walk-up window for online orders said business remains good thanks to those who live in the neighborhood or visit on weekends.

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MSI GE76 Raider review: Alder Lake is good, with caveats

The Verge

There’s no Windows Hello or fingerprint authentication. Windows 11’s File Explorer crashed a couple times while I was searching for folders, and things occasionally felt slow to open in general. And the MacBook was already head-and-shoulders above all kinds of gaming laptops.

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Why you might want a secure file-sharing service now that you’re working from home

The Verge

But if you are contemplating these services, everyone in your sharing circle should use two-factor authentication (such as Authy) to access them, not just a username and password. SecureDocs requires additional authentication by default for all of its logins, while the others I mention have it as an option. Additional login security.

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HP’s new Chromebase AiO has a screen that rotates from portrait to landscape

The Verge

For starters, whenever I rotated the screen from landscape to portrait or vice versa, my window arrangement would get lost, forcing me to reset everything. It might be fine if all you use is a single window, but the 21.5-inch Additionally, the built-in webcam is on the long edge of the screen, making it most useful in landscape mode.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. I’m talking about Heartbleed or CVE 2014-0160.