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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were Low-Tech Parents
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed that he limits his children’s exposure to technology. The world’s richest person (as of 2017) says his kids clamoured for mobile phones as young teenagers, but he and his wife Melinda ignored their complaints until they...
CEO of Company that Wants to Scan Your Irises: ‘World ID’ Is Coming ‘Whether You Like It or Not’
Alex Blania, CEO of Worldcoin, a company that wants billions of people to scan their irises to create a global system of authentication, says that a global form of ID is coming “whether you like it or not.” Worldcoin was co-founded by Sam Altman, who is also the CEO...
1Password acquires Passage to help bring passwordless authentication to everyone
Today, I’m thrilled to welcome the Passage team to 1Password. Together, we’re ushering in the next chapter in our journey toward secure and simple sign-ins for everyone. When I look at the growing interest in passkeys, I can’t help asking myself: what will it take to...
Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
Starting in April of 2023 we will be making two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to put our latest best practices for bucket security into effect automatically. The changes will begin to go into effect in April and will be rolled out to...
Information about a recent Mailchimp security incident
Updated 1/17/23 at 8:00 p.m. ET: At Mailchimp, we take the security of our users’ data seriously, and we want to keep you informed about a recent security incident. On January 11, the Mailchimp Security team identified an unauthorized actor accessing one of our tools...
LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach
Back in August 2022, popular password manager company LastPass admitted to a data breach. The company, which is owned by sofware-as-a-service business GoTo, which used to be LogMeIn, published a very brief but nevertheless useful report about that...