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Magic-link and emailed-code sign-in models that make the email inbox the primary credential.
Microsoft told admins on Friday that SMS first-factor sign-in retires from February 2027, and that its own SMS and voice delivery ends on February 1, so tenants that want to keep phone codes must buy telephony elsewhere.
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Databricks IT says AI agent tools have staff wanting desktop sessions on personal phones. Its published answer stacks four layers of control, and the login gate depends on a health check that keeps running.
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The whole auth layer of this job-alert tool is about fifty lines. Three credentials with lifetimes of 15 minutes, 30 days and a year come out of one HS256 secret, separated by a custom claim that one function compares.
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The same release deletes the two NVIDIA-specific code paths Mutter carried for Wayland, so GeForce 700-series cards drop back to the open-source Nouveau driver. Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10 both ship it.
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The August 25 milestone lands against FIDO's count of 5 billion passkeys in circulation. But the stronger two-step verification shipped alongside it is opt-in, so every account that skips it keeps a guessable numeric second step.
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Phase 3 hard-blocks password login for machine accounts by late 2026. Snowflake can tell you which credentials still work, not who owns them or what breaks when they stop.
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A TechCrunch guide to spotting hacked AI accounts documents the gap: ChatGPT and Perplexity offer multi-factor authentication, Claude sends a link to your email and has no password at all.
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