Apple demonstrated “passkeys” at WWDC 2022, a new biometric sign-in standard that could finally kill off the password for good. Passkeys are based on the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn), a standard that uses public-key cryptography instead of passwords for authenticating users to websites and applications, and are stored on-device rather Read more…
Palermo in Southern Italy, home to about 1.3 million people, has shut down all its services, public websites, and online portals following a cyberattack on Friday. It’s impossible to communicate or request any service that relies on digital systems, and all citizens have to use obsolete fax machines to reach Read more…
“An actively exploited Microsoft zero-day flaw still has no patch,” Wired wrote Friday (in an article they’ve designated as “free for a limited time only.”) Microsoft first received reports of the flaw on April 21st, the article points out, and researchers have now seen malicious Word documents exploiting Follina for Read more…
Sheryl Sandberg started at a company called Facebook, but stepped down from a changed company called Meta. So who will replace her? No one, suggests the New York Times. CEO/co-founder Mark Zuckerberg posted Wednesday on Facebook that he didn’t “plan to replace Sheryl’s role in our existing structure.” Instead, the Read more…
Last summer Chinese market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported the iPhone 13 would include satellite communication capability, remembers long-time tech pundit Robert Cringley, who adds that the prediction was denied by Apple. “This, in itself, was weird because Apple generally doesn’t react to rumors. But beyond the mere reaction, the way Read more…
“In molecular biologist David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard Medical School, old mice are growing young again,” reports CNN: Using proteins that can turn an adult cell into a stem cell, Sinclair and his team have reset aging cells in mice to earlier versions of themselves. In his team’s first breakthrough, Read more…
China aims to double its wind and solar capacity by 2025, according to a new road map that also allows for more coal-fired power plants to bolster energy security. The world’s biggest polluter earlier estimated it needs to double wind and solar use by 2030 to deliver on its pledges Read more…