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Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-21 21:33:25

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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Privacy-focused app maker Proton sues Apple over alleged anticompetitive practices and fees

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-21 20:51:29

Privacy-focused software provider Proton, makers of Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and other apps, has sued Apple, alleging anticompetitive practices in Apple’s App Store. In the new lawsuit, Proton says the iPhone maker holds a monopoly in the smartphone, app distribution, and app payment processing markets. It also compares Apple’s fees to tariffs on internet commerce, calling them “artificial and arbitrary.” The suit is looking for changes to the App Store and monetary damages,

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The next big HDMI leap is coming soon - what the 2.2 standard means for you

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-22 02:33:00

monticelllo/Getty Images The arrival of HDMI 2.2 technology ushers in a new era of A/V potential, which is great news for enthusiasts and future-proofing fanatics. It might be a little while before every device on the market sports the new tech, but you can expect to see the first "Ultra96" HDMI cables hitting shelves later this year. Increased bandwidth and resolution This is a significant leap forward from the current HDMI 2.1. Even ultra-high-speed 2.1 cables cap out at 48 Gbps. While 48 G

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How to clear your TV cache (and why it greatly enhances your viewing experience)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-22 02:46:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET In the age of smart TVs, convenience is king. With just a few clicks, we can dive into endless entertainment -- but that ease comes with a downside: the buildup of cache data. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Just like on your phone or computer, a cluttered TV cache can lead to sluggish performance, app crashes, and even hinder new content from loading properly. That's why it's important to clear all that extra cache and make y

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Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they're not

news.ycombinator.com James Dean 2026-02-22 02:22:12

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What do Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher and Jimi Hendrix have in common? They're just a few of the creative geniuses also known for being left-handed, helping to fuel the widespread belief that lefties are more creative. It's a compelling idea that even scientists presumed to be tru

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Insta360’s face-tracking Link 2 webcam is more affordable than ever

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2026-02-22 02:58:13

The Insta360 Link 2 is more than just a webcam — it’s a smart camera that actively follows your movements whether you’re presenting, streaming, or pacing during a call. It’s also packed with an impressive array of productivity features. And right now, it’s available at a new all-time low of $149.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. The webcam is a modest upgrade over the original Link, which was our favorite 4K webcam when it launched in 2022, boasting all the same impressive features with slight refinement

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Privacy-focused app maker Proton sues Apple over alleged anticompetive practices and fees

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-22 02:51:29

Privacy-focused software provider Proton, makers of Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and other apps, has sued Apple, alleging anticompetitive practices in Apple’s App Store. In the new lawsuit, Proton says the iPhone maker holds a monopoly in the smartphone, app distribution, and app payment processing markets. It also compares Apple’s fees to tariffs on internet commerce, calling them “artificial and arbitrary.” The suit is looking for changes to the App Store and monetary damages,

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CarPlay Ultra hands-on reveals its standout best new feature

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-22 06:30:18

iOS 26 is one of CarPlay’s biggest updates in years, but we shouldn’t forget that Apple has another major CarPlay launch this year. CarPlay Ultra has officially arrived, and a hands-on published today identifies its strengths. Customization is the biggest strength of CarPlay Ultra Bradley Iger at The Verge got to spend some time with CarPlay Ultra in the Aston Martin DBX707. It’s currently one of the only vehicles that offers CarPlay Ultra—and it took years to get to this point. Aston Martin

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Google Calendar now has an Apple Watch app

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-02-22 06:53:12

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Apple’s native calendar app on watchOS includes customization options that let you see alternate views, like a week summary and a full month. But the Google Calendar app only shows a week’s worth of events on your Apple Watch with their time and location, as well as Google Tasks in a simple list view showing the day of the week in the upper corne

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Mexican drug cartel hacker spied on FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-02-22 06:14:16

In 2018, a hacker hired by the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel run by the infamous kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán spied on the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City with the goal of identifying “people of interest” for the cartel to target and kill, according to a new U.S. government watchdog report. On Friday, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General revealed the incident as part of a published report auditing the FBI’s efforts to counter surveillance with the goal of protecting “its e

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Here’s how the Play Store will soon make it easier to track download progress (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 11:55:50

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store could soon receive a new download progress notification, allowing users to easily keep track of app downloads. We first spotted the notification in a teardown earlier this year, but Google has since made some improvements. The notification will list up to three recently downloaded apps and games, and let users open the apps right from the notification shade. The Google Play Store is set to receive a more helpful download progres

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Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game Where Hitman Meets Pokemon Snap

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 03:00:00

At Summer Game Fest, I tried out one of the more stylish, relaxing games that made me wish I had pals on the couch to play with. But instead of a co-op adventure, Snap & Grab, as it's called, is a heist title where players take on the role of a fashionista photojournalist who steals gaudy treasures from rich doofuses to fill her penthouse. Snap & Grab is the debut title for studio No Goblin, which held its demo in publisher Annapurna Interactive's closed-door area at the annual gaming festival.

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Anker Recalls More Power Banks for Fire, Explosion Risk: How to Get a Free Replacement or Gift Card

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 11:19:39

Electronics company Anker expanded an official global recall of some of its Power Bank products, adding five more models to a recall of the Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 announced earlier in June. The recall was initiated following 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding. Anker's products are made in China. In addition to the June recall of the A1263 and a previous October 2024 recall of the A1642 PowerCore 10000, new products recalled are

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Trump’s tariff threat pushes Canada to scrap digital services tax

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-22 11:15:47

In a sudden reversal, Canada has caved and will remove its digital services tax after trade talks with the US suddenly fell apart this weekend. Blocked just hours before taking effect, the controversial digital services tax (DST) would have charged big US tech companies like Apple, Google, and Meta a 3 percent tax on all digital services revenue earned from Canadian users. Frustrating US tech giants, Canada also sought to collect retroactive taxes dating back to 2022. Over the weekend, Donald

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Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: more continuity, less disruption

theverge.com Bradley Iger 2026-02-22 11:00:31

It’s been more than a decade since Apple unveiled the original version of CarPlay. In that time, the system has become indispensable for countless drivers all over the world. But while new iterations of iOS have introduced user interface tweaks and some additional customization features, its basic functionality hasn’t advanced much since that announcement back in March 2014. This changes with the introduction of CarPlay Ultra. First shown at WWDC 2022 and now available on any iPhone 12 or newer

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Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-22 11:17:08

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. Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the Canadian government announced that it will no longer implement the Digital Services Tax as it works to reach a trade deal with the US by July 21st. The Digital Services Tax would’ve

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Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-22 11:00:00

AI-powered accounting startup Campfire announced Monday that it has raised a $35 million Series A led by Accel, with participation from Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49, and angel investors including Mercury’s CFO Dan Kang. “Within nine months of formation, we had customers [with] north of 100 employees ripping out NetSuite and putting in Campfire,” founder CEO John Glasgow said. Some of Campfire’s customers that have migrated from NetSuite include wealth management platform Advisor3

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Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-22 16:44:36

Oracle CEO Safra Catz speaks at the FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 20, 2025. Oracle shares jumped more than 5% after a recent filing showed a cloud deal that would add over $30 billion annually. CEO Safra Catz is slated to share the deal news at a company meeting Monday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The revenues are expected to start hitting in the 2028 fiscal year. "Oracle is off to a strong start in FY26," Catz is expected to say,

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The Download: meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-02-22 14:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Donald Trump claims to have found buyers for TikTok But will China agree to sell to them? That’s the real hurdle. (FT $) + They have between now and the September 17 deadline to thrash it all out. (CNBC) 2 The Trump administration is becoming even more secretive Staff are being instructed to avoid leaving a paper trial at all costs. (WP $) 3 Canada has rescinded

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Google Calendar releases a simple Apple Watch app

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2026-02-22 16:18:58

Only a few Google services offer Apple Watch clients, with Google Calendar unexpectedly becoming the fourth app today. Google Calendar for Apple Watch is a simple application that shows a week’s worth of events and Google Tasks. There’s just a simple list view with the current day and date listed in the top-right corner. Each appointment or task gets its own color-coded card with the time at the top followed by the name and location. A tap lets you see more details. You’re prompted to “Open C

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Hikvision Canada ordered to cease operations over security risks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-22 16:11:17

The Canadian government has ordered Hikvision’s subsidiary in the country to cease all operations following a review that determined them to pose a national security risk. The order was forwarded to Hikvision last Friday, and the matter was made public over the weekend by Mélanie Joly, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. “Following a National Security Review under the Investment Canada Act, the Government of Canada has ordered Hikvision Canada Inc. to cease all operations in

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Canada caves to Trump and rescinds its digital service tax on big tech

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-23 02:00:45

Canada has folded in its battle with US President Donald Trump over tariffs by cancelling its proposed digital services tax (DST) on big tech companies, the government announced. On Friday, Trump ended trade talks over the levy, which he called "a direct and blatant attack on our country." However, discussions have resumed now that the DST is gone, according to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The DST has been in effect since last year but Canada was due to collect the first payments totall

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Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game Where Hitman meets Pokemon Snap

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

At Summer Game Fest, I tried out one of the more stylish, relaxing games that made me wish I had pals on the couch to play with. But instead of a co-op adventure, Snap & Grab, as it's called, is a heist title where players take on the role of a fashionista photojournalist who steals gaudy treasures from rich doofuses to fill her penthouse. Snap & Grab is the debut title for studio No Goblin, which held its demo in publisher Annapurna Interactive's closed-door area at the annual gaming festival.

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Anker is recalling another five power banks over fire risks

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-23 02:08:15

Anker has issued its second product recall so far this month, warning customers that five additional power bank models should stop being used “immediately due to the risk of overheating, melting, smoke, or fire.” “While the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal, out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to initiate a voluntary global recall of several Anker power bank models,” Anker announced. The concerns mirror those that Anker mentioned in its earlier recall of model A1263 Po

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Over 1,200 Citrix servers unpatched against critical auth bypass flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-23 12:47:38

Over 1,200 Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances exposed online are unpatched against a critical vulnerability believed to be actively exploited, allowing threat actors to bypass authentication by hijacking user sessions. Tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and referred to as Citrix Bleed 2, this out-of-bounds memory read vulnerability results from insufficient input validation, enabling unauthenticated attackers to access restricted memory regions. A similar Citrix security flaw, dubbed

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The $25k car is going extinct?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 18:59:56

View in browser Issue #353 Sunday, June 29, 2025 Why the $25,000 car is going extinct Can’t find an affordable car anywhere? You’re not the only one. BY MARK DENT In late 2021, Ford released the Maverick, a compact pickup truck. At roughly half the cost and half the weight of the popular F-150, it was meant to be an antidote for excess, and it worked. With a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $19,995 for the base level, the Maverick drew rave reviews from critics and a rush of inte

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Bought an Ampere Altra System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 10:38:49

In the hunt for a development machine, I got to the next phase. I did some shopping, and there it is: my own Ampere Altra-based system. Why? As you may have read in my previous post, I used several AArch64 systems for local development. And the latest one, an Apple MacBook Pro, is nice and fast but has some limits — does not support 64k page size. Which I need for my work. Let’s go cheap So I have decided to buy myself an Ampere Altra system. As cheap as possible. AArch64 server parts The

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Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

venturebeat.com Anurag Dodeja 2026-02-23 04:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more From passwords to passkeys to a veritable alphabet soup of other options — second-factor authentication (2FA)/one-time passwords (OTP), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), silent network authentication (SNA) — when it comes to a preeminent or even preferred type of identity authentication, there is little consensus amo

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The F1 movie is a cinema smash hit, on track to outperform combined box office of all previous Apple originals films

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-02-23 03:56:04

Whatever you think about Apple’s in-your-face advertising tactics, it seems to be paying off. The F1 movie is set to take in about $145 million in its opening weekend at the box office, with $55.6 million domestic. This easily outstrips any of Apple Original Film’s prior theatrical debuts, and sets the movie on a path to exceed the gross box office of all previous Apple films … combined. Apple releases almost all of its original films in small scale showings for some easy press attention and t

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Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

news.ycombinator.com Eric Holthaus 2026-02-23 03:39:08

A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent this week. Scientists that the Guardian spoke with say the change could set hurricane forecasting back “decades”, just as this year’s season ramps up. In a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) message sent on Wednesday to its scientists, the agency said that “due to recent service changes” the Defense Meteorological Sate

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Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords

Privacy-focused app maker Proton sues Apple over alleged anticompetitive practices and fees

The next big HDMI leap is coming soon - what the 2.2 standard means for you

How to clear your TV cache (and why it greatly enhances your viewing experience)

Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they're not

Insta360’s face-tracking Link 2 webcam is more affordable than ever

Privacy-focused app maker Proton sues Apple over alleged anticompetive practices and fees

CarPlay Ultra hands-on reveals its standout best new feature

Google Calendar now has an Apple Watch app

Mexican drug cartel hacker spied on FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

Here’s how the Play Store will soon make it easier to track download progress (APK teardown)

Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game Where Hitman Meets Pokemon Snap

Anker Recalls More Power Banks for Fire, Explosion Risk: How to Get a Free Replacement or Gift Card

Trump’s tariff threat pushes Canada to scrap digital services tax

Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: more continuity, less disruption

Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A

Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing

The Download: meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI

Google Calendar releases a simple Apple Watch app

Hikvision Canada ordered to cease operations over security risks

Canada caves to Trump and rescinds its digital service tax on big tech

Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game Where Hitman meets Pokemon Snap

Anker is recalling another five power banks over fire risks

Over 1,200 Citrix servers unpatched against critical auth bypass flaw

The $25k car is going extinct?

Bought an Ampere Altra System

Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

The F1 movie is a cinema smash hit, on track to outperform combined box office of all previous Apple originals films

Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

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