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Unbeknownst to me until I began research for this article, all platforms other than those running Windows store passkeys locally on the device. The shift to local storage came a few years ago after OS and third-party application developers realized that passkeys had no chance of gaining widespread usage unless they could easily be synced to all of a user’s devices. Requiring TPM storage made syncing impossible. The only way to load them into the TPM of a new device would be to re-create each one individually. Ultimately, architects of the FIDO specifications decided that it was generally safe to…

Andy Burnham says he is “confident” PC Andrew Harper’s killers can be excluded from the government’s early release scheme, as outcry over the case grows.The prime minister has ordered the justice secretary to find a way to bar Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, who were jailed for 13 years for manslaughter in 2020, from early release.He said a plan to prevent more prisoners from being freed long before the end of their sentences would be presented to Parliament in September.The move comes after days of pressure to exclude Harper’s killers from the scheme, which is aiming to free about 5,000…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Jamaica-born British writer Jacqueline Crooks’s impressive debut novel Fire Rush (2023) was two books in one. It was an energising account of the London dub music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s — of the “arrhythmic electricity” of the body infused by music — but also a teasing thriller with more hairpin bends than a Formula 1 track.Her new novel is, for the most part, a more sombre and knotty affair. It’s set largely in early 1990s north London, where…

When station wagons headed for the same retirement home as the vinyl roof and the opera window, Subaru looked at its sensible Legacy wagon and had a different idea. Raise it a few inches, wrap the lower body in plastic cladding, name it for the Australian bush, and suburban families would drive to soccer practice while imagining themselves fording streams and climbing sand dunes. In giving birth to the Legacy Outback in 1995, Subaru more or less created the template for the modern, adventure-minded, off-road-themed crossover. By the 2000 model year, the Outback had graduated from trim level to standalone…

A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it’s one that Google tried very hard to avoid. The first third-party app store has arrived in Google Play as a result of the long-running antitrust lawsuit with Epic. Those in the US can now head into Google Play and download Aptoide, a game-focused store that has been available as a sideloaded client since the early days of Android. Forcing Google to distribute third-party app stores in Google Play was one of several remedies imposed by Judge James Donato after Epic emerged victorious in 2023. The remedies also included lowering…

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks to members of the media following the company’s “Japan AI Ecosystem” reception in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe first three-plus years of the artificial intelligence buildout has been paid for through record amounts of equity and debt issued by the world’s leading tech companies, some of whom are spending so much of their existing capital that they’ve turned cash-flow negative. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just revealed what he expects to be the next phase of financing, backed not by corporate balance sheets,…

SteamOS is continuing its slow march to fuller support on a wider variety of non-Valve hardware. This weekend’s release of the SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta includes “initial gamepad support” for a few recent gaming handhelds and improved support for a few others. Those newly supported handhelds include MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+, the extremely expensive, extremely powerful handheld built around Intel’s Arc G3 processor that launched this summer. While SteamOS has long included beta support for “other AMD powered handhelds,” Valve has only recently been working on offering compatibility with Intel-based handhelds like the MSI Claw line. This weekend’s update suggests…

Social media scuttlebutt about Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht failing to assist stranded boaters off the coast of Alaska was partly corroborated by ship-tracking data—and eventually prompted responses from both the US Coast Guard and a spokesperson for Zuckerberg. The incident was made public when Michael Love, a passenger aboard the replica steamship Wilderness Legacy during an Alaska cruise, posted about it on the social media platform Bluesky. The ship detoured to rescue a stranded 21-foot skiff with two women, a child and a dog, after the US Coast Guard had supposedly first radioed Zuckerberg’s superyacht, Launchpad, for help without…

The NAACP has argued that xAI’s reliance on gas turbines has only grown the longer the facility has operated, “growing from 18 to 27 to 33 to, now, 60 unpermitted gas turbines,” while “Memphis area communities were left to piece together the pollution threat for themselves.” So far, despite being the supposedly fast and easy solution, gas turbines aren’t widely used yet. According to Cleanview, xAI accounts for most of the 2 GW behind-the-meter generation capacity running as of mid-2026. Some of these projects can be approved in days, without any public notice, the NYT reported. One nonpartisan research group,…

OpenAI has halted some “internal activities” involving a new model amid fears over the cyber threat it potentially poses, amid a wave of security incidents involving major AI labs.Recent disclosures that AI systems from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta were involved in security incidents prompted a wave of concerns over the development of models. U.S. lawmakers, meanwhile, are stepping up efforts to introduce an “AI Kill Switch” bill.Last week, Meta disclosed that an AI model it was developing had hacked a third-party system by accessing the internet, due to a misconfiguration by an independent testing company it was working with. The…