You've probably seen the prompt by now. You go to log into Gmail, Amazon, or PayPal, and instead of asking for a password, the site asks if you'd like to use your face, your fingerprint, or your phone's PIN instead. That's a passkey, and depending on who you ask, it's either the biggest security upg...
A messaging app that intentionally takes hours or days to deliver a text has attracted nearly 300,000 users in about five weeks, turning what most developers treat as a bug into its core selling point.
Roost, built by Logan Mendelsohn, a senior product manager in trust and safety at Ticketmaster,...
New homeowners love posting a photo holding up their keys the day they move in. A cybersecurity professional is warning that the habit might be handing strangers a working copy of the front door.
Evan Ottinger, a red team operator based in Virginia who spends his career simulating break-ins for co...
There's a persistent fear about contactless payments that goes something like this: someone brushes past you in a crowded subway car with a hidden card reader in their bag, and seconds later, your card has been silently charged. It makes for a good cautionary tale. It's also almost never how contact...
Security researchers say they've found a new fileless malware delivery system where artificial intelligence didn't just help write parts of the code — it appears to have designed the entire attack infrastructure from the ground up.
The system, dubbed SpectrePaste, was reportedly uncovered while re...
OpenAI has rolled out a new voice system for ChatGPT that lets the AI listen and speak at the same time, doing away with the stop-and-start rhythm that has defined AI conversations for years. The company calls it GPT-Live, and it's now replacing Advanced Voice Mode for users everywhere.
The change...
Ctrl Wallet, one of the more established names in multichain crypto storage, is closing its doors entirely — and giving users a hard deadline of August 3, 2026, to move their funds out before the app stops working.
The trouble started small. On June 23, Ctrl Wallet flagged a security issue affecti...
For most of the last decade, picking a VPN protocol meant wading through a handful of familiar acronyms — PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, IKEv2, OpenVPN — each with its own trade-offs and its own die-hard defenders. That fight has quietly settled for everyday use. But there's a second, much fiercer battle happeni...
The UK's top diplomat has a blunt message for world governments: don't wait until something goes catastrophically wrong with AI before agreeing on how to control it.
In an essay for the Chatham House think tank, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper draws a direct comparison to the birth of the nuclear...