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The safest password is the one you never type

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Passwords are a mess, and they always have been. I use a password manager, and it makes the whole having to remember 1,400 logins much easier, but even then, it could be easier. Well, the good news is that it can be much easier, with one simple answer: passkeys. While passkeys sound like a rebranding exercise, they’re actually the future of password security, and it’s high time you started making the switch. Related I use the same login protection Google trusts for its own staff I stopped using passwords and switched to the same physical login protection Google uses internally for daily accounts. So what actually is a passkey? It’s not another password, thankfully Tashreef Shareef / MakeUseOfCredit: Tashreef Shareef / MakeUseOf A passkey is a pair of cryptographic keys. One key is stored on the site or app’s server, and one key is stored on your device. When the login box appears for a given site or service, instead of using your password, you use this cryptographic key pairing instead. Now, that sounds confusing, right? …

What’s the safest swimsuit color? Skip blue and black.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. A pleasant swim at the beach or pool can quickly turn deadly. Every year, over 4,000 people die from unintentional drowning across the United States. Swim safety experts say drowning is highly preventable. They recommend learning basic swimming skills, designating “water watchers” to keep an eye on children in the water, and avoiding swimming alone or under the influence. But what if your outfit could stop you from drowning? Swim safety experts say wearing the right color on your next beach day is a good way to stay visible and out of harm’s way—especially for inexperienced swimmers and kids. So what are the safest swimsuit colors? Lisa Zarda, Executive Director of the U.S. Swim School Association, says people wearing bright, neon colors are …

‘We have been profoundly let down’: Voters in one of Labour’s safest seats consider switching sides

Published by Sam Flores

Until recently, lunchtime on a Thursday would have been a manic period for Steven Lightbrown, with a queue out of the door for fish and chips, pies and fritters. But since the closure of the steelworks in Port Talbot in September 2024, the takeaway business that his father established 40 years ago in the industrial community of Taibach has taken a “massive hit”, losing almost half of its trade. Locals remain loyal customers, but the drop in trade has forced Mr Lightbrown to reduce his hours at Steve’s Fish Bar to four days a week. “Businesses have been heavily affected with the lack of people coming,” he tells The Independent. “It’s affected morale, steelworkers were my main trade. A lot of workers have now left the area, some have gone up to Hinkley Point, others have gone up to Trostre Steelworks.” Steve Lightbrown’s fish shop has lost 40 per cent of its trade (Supplied) It has been 20 months since Tata Steel turned off the blast furnaces in the south Wales industrial town, with 2,000 …

NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents

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NanoClaw, the open-source AI agent platform created by Gavriel Cohen, is partnering with the containerized development platform Docker to let teams run agents inside Docker Sandboxes, a move aimed at one of the biggest obstacles to enterprise adoption: how to give agents room to act without giving them room to damage the systems around them. The announcement matters because the market for AI agents is shifting from novelty to deployment. It is no longer enough for an agent to write code, answer questions or automate a task. For CIOs, CTOs and platform leaders, the harder question is whether that agent can safely connect to live data, modify files, install packages and operate across business systems without exposing the host machine, adjacent workloads or other agents. That is the problem NanoClaw and Docker say they are solving together. Lazer Cohen and Gavriel Cohen, co-founders of NanoClaw.dev. Credit: NanoClaw.dev A security argument, not just a packaging update NanoClaw launched as a security-first alternative in the rapidly growing “claw” ecosystem, where agent frameworks promise broad autonomy across local …

Nikki Glaser proved to be the Golden Globes’ safest bet

Published by Sam Flores

The Golden Globes need a host about as much as people who truly love movies and television need the Golden Globes — which is to say, not at all. Proof of that is in the award show’s history. For nearly all of the first four decades of its existence, and between 1996 and 2009, Hollywood’s most inebriated night of back-slapping stumbled forth without a couture-clad shepherd to guide it. Then, in 2010, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made Ricky Gervais its returning ringmaster and things went up before plummeting sharply downhill from there. Cut to 2026, and a point in history when the world feels horrendously upside down. The 83rd Globes is coming off a week where America’s president bragged about overthrowing Venezuela’s regime to claim its oil, and an ICE agent gunned down an unarmed American citizen and mother of three in Minneapolis. So, as a roomful of wealthy, famous people gathered to congratulate themselves on their artistic accomplishments, second-time Globes host Nikki Glaser proved that the show needs her more than she or …

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