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Microsoft Authenticator won't manage your passwords anymore - here's why and what's next

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-18 11:40:00

gyro/Getty Images Those of you who use Microsoft Authenticator as a password manager will have to find another option, and soon. That's because an upcoming change will pull the plug on the ability to use the Authenticator app to store and autofill passwords. In a recent support document, Microsoft revealed the timeline for Authenticator's retirement as a password manager. Starting in June, you'll no longer be able to add or import new passwords in the app, though you'll still be able to save p

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Think Your Password's Safe? Think Again. CNET Survey Reveals 49% of Americans Have Risky Password Habits

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 11:00:00

News flash: We have some risky password habits. CNET's latest survey shows that almost half of US adults (49%) have risky password habits. Even worse is that 24% admitted to using a password that's shared with another account. That's troubling to Attila Tomaschek, CNET software senior writer and digital security expert. "Reusing the same password across multiple accounts puts users at risk of getting their online accounts compromised through a credential stuffing attack," said Tomaschek. It

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If you're using Microsoft Authenticator to store your passwords, don't

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-18 14:58:42

Microsoft Authenticator is sunsetting its ability to store your passwords. This month, the service stopped allowing users to add or import new passwords. Beginning in July 2025, users will no longer be able to use autofill with Authenticator, and in August 2025, passwords will no longer be available at all. Payment information stored in Authenticator will be deleted after July, and after the following month, all unsaved generated passwords will be deleted. Passkeys will still be supported in Aut

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Reminder: Microsoft Authenticator is dropping password autofill in July

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-18 20:27:04

Heads up if you’ve been using Microsoft Authenticator as a password manager: the app is phasing out support for password autofill, and all saved passwords will be deleted by August. Here’s what to do. The changes are part of Microsoft’s plan to consolidate its credential management tools under the Edge browser. Going forward, password autofill will only be available through Edge, not Authenticator. What’s changing, and when Starting June 2025, you will no longer be able to Add or Import new p

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 1, #1473

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 17:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is kind of a funny word. It's not unknown, but I just never guess these letters, and it took me a while to solve. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read o

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 1, #751

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 23:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tricky. The purple category requires you to really think about how four words fit with another word that's not in the puzzle. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for W

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 1, #485

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 23:00:15

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle could be tricky, depending on your knowledge of carnival-style rides. And the spangram is stupendously long. But it makes a fun shape that's related to the topic. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands i

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Microsoft Authenticator will soon ditch passwords for passkeys - here's what to do

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-19 15:57:12

ZDNET Those of you who use Microsoft Authenticator as a password manager will have to find another option, and soon. That's because an upcoming change will pull the plug on the ability to use the Authenticator app to store and autofill passwords. In a recent support document, Microsoft revealed the timeline for Authenticator's retirement as a password manager. Starting in June, you'll no longer be able to add or import new passwords in the app, though you'll still be able to save passwords thr

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Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-19 15:33:25

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you’ll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead. Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator t

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Got a Brother printer? It could have a critical security flaw - how to check and what to do next

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-02-20 00:35:00

Brother / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Hundreds of Brother printer models have been found to harbor a serious security flaw that can't be fully patched on existing devices. First noticed by Rapid7 in May and publicly disclosed on June 25, this unpatchable vulnerability lets an attacker who knows -- or can find out -- your printer's serial number generate its default administrator password. Also: Patch your Windows PC now before bootkit malware takes it over - here's how Yes, the same password

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Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-20 05:47:13

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode published today. The company announced the plan to move over the more than half a billion blogs on Tumblr last year, saying that the change would “make it easier to share our work across platforms.” But Mullenweg says on Decoder th

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Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress

theverge.com Nilay Patel 2026-02-20 10:00:00

Today, I’m talking with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, Tumblr, and a whole host of other products like the new cross-platform messaging service Beeper. This is Matt’s third time on Decoder; back in 2022, we had him on twice, first to talk about Automattic and WordPress broadly and then to talk about Tumblr and the future of social networking. He’s back now because Automattic just turned 20, and I really wanted to talk about how the next 2

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Millions of Brother Printers Are Full of Hackable Bugs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-20 20:00:35

Brother makes some solid, reliable printers. Indeed, for several years running, The Verge named it the best printer you should buy. Unfortunately, the company’s devices appear to be riddled with new zero-day bugs that could allow a savvy cybercriminal to hijack them. The vulnerabilities were discovered by cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which published a blog about the bugs last week. The blog explains that, after some research, Rapid7’s cyber pros came across a total of eight new zero-day vulnerabi

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, June 30

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 05:04:16

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? 2-Down was the stumper for me today, since it was one of those clues that could be answered in many ways. Read on for the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tip

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 30, #750

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 00:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. The blue and purple categories especially threw me off. It helps to know your movies. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 30, #484

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 00:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Gardeners -- today's NYT Strands puzzle is for you. I'm not one, and some of the answers were tough to find and even tougher to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordl

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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-20 20:00:58

Stephen Hawking, a British physicist and arguably the most famous man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicated with the world using a sensor installed in his glasses. That sensor used tiny movements of a single muscle in his cheek to select characters on a screen. Once he typed a full sentence at a rate of roughly one word per minute, the text was synthesized into speech by a DECtalk TC01 synthesizer, which gave him his iconic, robotic voice. But a lot has changed since

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Brother printer hack puts thousands of users at risk of remote takeover

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-02-20 16:01:00

TL;DR: Hackers have cracked Brother's method of generating default admin passwords for hundreds of its printers, scanners, and label makers, putting users who haven't changed them at risk. Additionally, researchers found seven other serious vulnerabilities affecting Brother and other brands. Users should visit company websites for security advisories and update their firmware. Security researchers at Rapid7 recently reported eight vulnerabilities affecting over 689 printers, scanners, and label

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #749

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 20:00:02

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. There's a very 1980s phrase in it and I had no idea where to put it. Even now, I'm going to have to Google it within its category to find out what it means. (It's this.) Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #483

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 20:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I love today's NYT Strands puzzle! It's maybe a bit easier than usual once you understand the theme, but then it gets, well, really colorful. And the spangram even makes a themed shape! If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in th

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 28, #482

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 15:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. It took me a few minutes to figure out the theme, and then, the words were all over the map. Plus, the spangram is enormous -- filling up two rows and more! If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 28, #748

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 15:00:07

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. Just remember, sometimes last names can disguise themselves as regular nouns. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive

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You can now mute words just on Threads, and even set a 30-day timer

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-21 20:15:07

It looks like Meta is finally treating Threads as its own app, rather than just an Instagram sidekick. After rolling out a standalone DMs system, Threads is now getting its own mute lists, along with something new (and very welcome): temporary filters that expire automatically. No Instagram strings attached In a post this week, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a revamped “Hidden Words” feature for Threads that includes its own independent word filters. Until now, muting a word on Threads

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How to share your Wi-Fi password across iPhones, Androids and other devices

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-22 20:45:33

You no longer have to remember long Wi-Fi passwords to share them with friends and family. Whether you're setting up a new device or helping a friend connect to your home network, sharing your Wi-Fi password doesn't need to be a hassle. Today’s smartphones make it easy to share access without typing (or needing to remember) long strings of characters. Both iPhones and Android devices support features that let you send your Wi-Fi password quickly and securely, but the steps can vary depending on

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Threads now has a better word filter than Instagram

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-23 05:39:00

Threads has taken another step towards decoupling from Instagram by introducing its own word blocking filters. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the Hidden Words setting on Threads includes “newly added custom filters to block words, phrases, and emojis in batches, with optional time limits.” A previous version of Hidden Words was tied to Instagram, meaning you could only mute the same words and phrases across both platforms. This change enables users to tailor what they wa

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Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 20:04:30

There are garbage dumps everywhere for those with eyes to see Given my interest in extending the life of my SD cards and hard drives as much as possible, I’m surprised I haven’t come across /dev/shm before. In a word it’s a world-accessible RAM scratchpad, which seems baked right into POSIX, so that virtually every Unix system already has it mounted as a tmpfs by default: 1 2 ❯ mount | grep '/dev/shm' tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs ( rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64 ) Today’s lucky 10,000, indeed. It ge

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 27, #747

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-24 04:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun blue category. It made me happily remember a PBS show of my youth. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 27, #481

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-24 04:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. The theme name threw me off, and I was looking for words like "muddy," but it went another way entirely. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today

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Threads now has a Hidden Words setting that's separate from Instagram

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-24 20:41:37

This lets users filter out phrases they don't want to see in feeds, searches, profiles and replies. Threads and Instagram are continuing to decouple. Meta's social network has updated its Hidden Words setting to make it separate from Instagram. Prior to this update, users had one global Hidden Words setting that impacted both platforms. For the uninitiated, the Hidden Words setting lets users filter out stuff they don't want to see. The setting can be applied to posts, feeds, searches, profile

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Brother printer bug in 689 models exposes default admin passwords

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-24 20:10:25

A total of 689 printer models from Brother, along with 53 other models from Fujifilm, Toshiba, and Konica Minolta, come with a default administrator password that remote attackers can generate. Even worse, there is no way to fix the flaw via firmware in existing printers. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2024-51978, is part of a set of eight vulnerabilities discovered by Rapid7 researchers during a lengthy examination of Brother hardware. CVE Description Affected Service CVSS CVE-2024-51977 An unau

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Microsoft Authenticator won't manage your passwords anymore - here's why and what's next

Think Your Password's Safe? Think Again. CNET Survey Reveals 49% of Americans Have Risky Password Habits

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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

Brother printer hack puts thousands of users at risk of remote takeover

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #749

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 28, #482

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 28, #748

You can now mute words just on Threads, and even set a 30-day timer

How to share your Wi-Fi password across iPhones, Androids and other devices

Threads now has a better word filter than Instagram

Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 27, #747

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 27, #481

Threads now has a Hidden Words setting that's separate from Instagram

Brother printer bug in 689 models exposes default admin passwords

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