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Beginning September 1, 2026, passkeys will become the default for Entra ID Microsoft is retiring SMS/phone call authentication from February 1, 2027 Victims are more likely to open AI-assisted phishing emails Microsoft has confirmed plans to make passkeys the default or preferred authentication method for Entra ID beginning September 1, 2026, announcing further changes to…

The Flock backlash is growing, and city officials have started covering ALPR cameras with trash bags Some cameras are even being smashed up A handful of Flock cameras have been spotted inside speed signs out of sight from drivers The recent backlash to security company Flock highlights severe privacy concerns with its Automated License Plate…

Imagine an automated torture chamber where one calamity after another is inflicted upon you. Worse yet, it’s all robots doing the pushing, pulling, pressing, switching, and lighting. A robot even delivers you to this house of horrors. Of course, you’re a Samsung Galaxy phone, and you were actually built to take this kind of punishment,…

Star Wars Zero Company will take 30-40 hours to beat the main campaign The game won’t feature New Game Plus mode, romance systems, or branching story paths Post-launch content is also unconfirmed at this time Bit Reactor has confirmed that Star Wars Zero Company will take up to 40 hours to finish, and it won’t…

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott calls for move from “AI chaos to AI discipline” Comments come after OpenAI model infiltrated Hugging Face McDermott says ServiceNow tools come with a “kill switch” to prevent such incidents ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has laid out why his company’s AI offerings have an advantage over the competition, partly because of…

South Korean government discloses ten‑month cyberattack on the National Diplomatic Academy’s online education system Data stolen included user IDs, names, emails, and encrypted passwords of at least 6,000 individuals MFA shut down IT systems, deployed enhanced security, and delayed disclosure due to diplomatic sensitivity Current and former employees of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign…

Middleware has traditionally been treated as a background process. Enterprises could afford to have this layer connect systems and data with minimal oversight – but that autonomy is no longer compatible with the scale and complexity of modern data flows. Large enterprises, retailers, and financial institutions consist of transactions sprawled across a disconnected web of…

A new acronym is starting to appear in boardrooms, investor conversations and executive debates: MANGOS – Meta, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI and SpaceX. It is being used as shorthand for the new power cluster of the AI era, and perhaps as the successor to FAANG as a symbol of where technological gravity now lives. Here…

As Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues its journey toward The Original Series, the USS Enterprise crew returns for another set of galaxy-spanning adventures. Season 4 will be the show’s penultimate season, bringing the story closer to the events of the iconic 1960s series, with the tagline promising fans it will go “one step closer…

Spoilers for Ransom Canyon season 2 ahead. I shouldn’t love Ransom Canyon as much as I do, but the Virgin River meets Yellowstone Western drama always has a way of hooking me back in. In season 2, we’ve explored a lot of overarching storylines that were first established back in season 1. The land feud…