According to a Windows Insider blog post, Microsoft is currently testing a deeper integration of 1Password’s passkey feature in Windows 11. Passkeys are more secure than passwords, allowing you to log in using a combination of something you have (like a smartphone) and something you are (like your face or fingerprint). Passkeys save you from having to remember lots of unique passwords and provide better protection against hackers. Microsoft is just one of many entities pushing for a passwordless future in favor of passkeys. The 1Password integration is simple. You just have to install 1Password Beta, then enable 1Password as a plugin credential manager via Settings > Passkeys > Advanced options, and also complete user verification with Windows Hello (face, fingerprint, or PIN). Afterwards, you can use 1Password’s passkeys with and through Windows 11. So far, the feature is limited to the preview version Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5670 (KB5060838) in the Dev Channel. It’s unknown when support will be released for all users, or when other password managers will receive similar integration. Read...

Google has released an emergency update for Chrome, fixing a vulnerability in new Chrome versions 138.0.7204.96/97 for Windows, 138.0.7204.92/93 for macOS, and 138.0.7204.96 for Linux. According to Google, this particular vulnerability is already being attacked in the wild. The manufacturers of other Chromium-based browsers should be following suit in the coming days. In the Chrome Releases blog post, Krishna Govind provided the scant details that Google revealed about the zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-6554), which Google classifies as high risk. It’s a classic issue that crops up practically every month: a type mix-up in the V8 JavaScript engine. The discoverer of the vulnerability is also no stranger: Clément Lecigne from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), who has discovered zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome several times before. Lecigne discovered the problem on June 25th. Then, on June 26th, Google sent a configuration change to all Chrome installations on the Stable Channel of all platforms to mitigate the problem. The update now available should take care of the rest. A week ago, Google released the new major version of Chrome 138, which addressed 11 security flaws. As a rule, Chrome updates itself automatically when a new version is available. You can manually initiate the update check using the menu and navigating to Help > About Google Chrome. Google also released Chrome for Android 138.0.7204.63 and Chrome for iOS 138.0.7204.119, with the same vulnerabilities fixed in the Android version. Google plans to release Chrome 139 at the end of July. Other Chromium-based browsers The manufacturers of other Chromium-based browsers should now be working to follow suit with their own updates. Microsoft Edge and Brave have already made the switch to Chromium 138 and are at the security level prior to this Chrome update. Vivaldi is still working on finalizing its new version 7.5 with Chromium 138. Although Opera is delivering an update to version 119.0.5497.141, it still only contains the completely outdated Chromium 134. Read...

Sony makes gaming monitors. I know, it’s kind of a shock, right? I had to be reminded of this fact, and I cover this stuff for my job. Maybe part of the reason the company tends to go unnoticed is that those monitors are usually a lot more expensive than the competition. Not today: You can get a Sony OLED gaming monitor with 480Hz of refresh for $714.99. That’s almost $400 off. Granted, that’s still hitting at about average pricing for a 27-inch OLED monitor with a 2560×1440 resolution at the moment. But it’s the speed that’s particularly notable. At 480Hz with a .03ms response time, the Sony Inzone M10S is approximately twice as fast as comparable monitors. It’ll pump out frames so quickly that even a beefy gaming PC will struggle to keep up with it in just about any recent 3D game. In his review for PCWorld, Matt Smith praised the monitor’s speed and image quality, but lamented its lack of USB-C ports (so not a great pairing with a gaming laptop) and high price. At least one of those issues is fixed with a lower price. For the sake of comparison, even LG’s similar 27-inch, 480Hz OLED (which appears to be using the same screen panel) is $140 more expensive on Amazon right now. I’d use the savings to get a nice VESA monitor arm, though the Sony design has an unusually small and unobtrusive base. If you’re in the mood for something else, be sure to check out PCWorld’s picks for the best gaming monitors. Get a Sony OLED gaming monitor with 480Hz refresh for $715View Deal Read...

Publishers including Condé Nast and Sky News have welcomed the new tech from internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare. Read...

Last week, Microsoft released a new optional patch for Windows 11 called update KB5060829. Since then, users have been reporting that the update is causing problems with the Alt + Tab keyboard shortcut. According to Windows Latest, the issues don’t just stop at the popular productivity shortcut either. Other issues include mouse cursor lag, screen resolution issues, and difficulties adjusting volume. KB5060829 is a preview update, which means it’s optional to install and allows you to try out new features and improvements ahead of the general release. However, preview updates can have problems like this, so you shouldn’t blindly install them on mission-critical PCs. The update is supposed to be rolled out to all users in two weeks, so hopefully Microsoft fixes these issues in time. Until then, you should hold off on installing update KB5060829 to avoid these issues. Meanwhile, if you’re affected, try rolling back the problematic update. Read...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a new feature in Office 365 to stop email bombing, a type of cyberattack that has grown increasingly common in recent years. Email bombing is when lots of emails are sent to a target’s inbox in an attempt to overwhelm them and make it difficult (or impossible) to access legitimate emails. In a note regarding the new update, Microsoft wrote: “We’re introducing a new detection capability in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to help protect your organization from a growing threat known as email bombing. This form of abuse floods mailboxes with high volumes of email to obscure important messages or overwhelm systems. The new ‘Mail Bombing’ detection will automatically identify and block these attacks, helping security teams maintain visibility into real threats.” Mail Bombing Detection will be available via Microsoft Defender for Office 365 soon, with the update starting to roll out in late June and completing its rollout by late July. The new feature will be enabled by default, so email bombing should start going straight to the trash. Read...

Between email, calls, texts, and now an unending torrent of AI slop, I feel like I’ve been fighting off scammers every single day for basically my entire adult life. And now that my creaky adult body is starting to succumb to the inexorable forces of entropy, the scammers are coming for my health insurance. I suppose that only makes sense. Existence is suffering–existence on the internet, more so. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation says that there’s been a huge uptick in scammers pretending to be health insurance representatives. Based on the short news bulletin (spotted by PCMag), it’s a familiar setup. In the same way that scammers pretend to be communicating from a bank or a government official, they’ll pretend to be a healthcare or insurance representative, hoping to put people off their guard. Once the initial panic sets in, they’ll be more likely to share “protected health information, medical records, personal financial details, or providing reimbursements for alleged service overpayments or non-covered services.” From there, a scammer can start in on the usual identity theft two-step, either trying to break into your personal accounts with said info or simply trying to register for new bank accounts, credit cards, et cetera as you. Since this is the FBI we’re talking about, presumably the scammers are targeting Americans, who are already on edge for the most expensive medical care in the world thanks to our health insurance system. Ongoing attempts to cut Medicare and Medicaid programs have elevated concerns for millions. Of course, there’s nothing stopping the same scammers from targeting people in other countries with a little tweaking. Generative AI systems have made these scam packages easy to create and deploy to victims en masse. As usual, the advice is simple, if not exactly easy to follow in the heat of the moment. Don’t follow links from email addresses or texts from phone numbers you don’t know. Verify information in another tab, or even another device, instead. Don’t share any personal information, especially logins or passwords, with anyone you can’t independently verify. Oh, and maybe pass this info along to anyone in your family who’s a little less technical. Read...

NASA will soon stream its live broadcasts on Netflix, Engadget reports. These are the same broadcasts that are also available through NASA+ (formerly NASA TV), and they’ll be available to all users worldwide. The US space agency will live stream everything, from rocket launches and spacewalks to broadcasts from the International Space Station (ISS). The live broadcasts are expected to appear on Netflix later this summer, but an exact launch date for the streams isn’t yet known. NASA+ also offers self-produced documentaries, but these don’t appear to be part of the new partnership with Netflix. Read...

Over on The Full Nerd podcast, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 is known as The GOAT, the graphics card that still hasn’t been beaten for value, gains over its predecessors, and performance in its time. But its time might just be up. Nvidia is ending support for Unix graphics for the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta series of GPUs…which means that the last batch of major GTX cards might be on their way out. If you’re a bit confused, it’s understandable. Unix support shouldn’t have anything to do with gamers that are overwhelmingly using Windows, right? Unfortunately, Nvidia tends to drop all support for graphics card architecture once it stops the Unix development, according to VideoCardz. That means that the 580 release of the graphics card driver package will probably be the last one for GTX 700, 900, and 10-series cards, no matter what operating system you’re using. The slightly newer GTX 16 series (1630, 1650, 1650 Super, 1660, 1660 Ti, 1660 Super) which started hitting shelves in 2019 might hang on a little longer, as they’re more affordable cards based on the same Turing architecture as the initial RTX 20 series. And it’s not as if missing out on game-ready drivers will suddenly make the older cards (released from 2014-2017) suddenly stop working — they just won’t get optimizations for new games. But it would certainly be the end of an era, and a frustrating push to upgrade for those users still holding on to these cards as GPU prices have skyrocketed. Read...

Ask a smattering of PC gamers combing through the aisles of a Micro Center for the best PC parts whether they’re building an AMD or Intel-based desktop, and most of them will say the former. That’s because AMD’s Ryzen X3D chips absolutely slap for gaming with 3D V-cache. But a new rumor indicates that Intel is working on an equivalent tech for its new chips, hoping to claw back some gamer cred. The scuttlebutt is that there are two new Nova Lake processors slated for the upcoming LGA1954 socket. Techspot quotes a Twitter leaker claiming that said chips will use 125 watts of power, with eight performance cores and a mix of four Low-Power Efficiency cores and either 12 or 16 standard efficiency cores. None of that is particularly noteworthy, but it’s the inclusion of bLLC, Big Last Level Cache, that’s turning heads. This extra pool of low-latency L3 cache could perform the same function as AMD’s 3D V-cache feature, which dramatically boosts highly demanding tasks including gaming and media creation. AMD has been lighting up the CPU sales charts since it introduced the feature with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D back in 2022. It’s since become the go-to pick for PC gaming on the desktop, expanding it into X3D variant CPU models in the Ryzen 7000 and 9000 series, and back-porting the 3D V-cache feature into several 5000 series chips (on the apparently immortal AM4 socket) to offer it to budget gamers. We should stress that, at least at the time of writing, this is only a rumor. Nova Lake is set to arrive in 2026, so even if Intel is cooking up these chips with an eye towards better competition with AMD’s gaming-focused models, there’s no guarantee that they’ll arrive in the same state. Techspot also notes that Intel representatives denied plans to compete directly with AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips as recently as November of last year. Even so, bLLC is a feature of Intel’s newest server CPUs, so clearly the tech is good enough for at least some finished products. And considering how much of a beating Intel is taking in the larger market, a little appeal to the consumer side of things couldn’t hurt. Read...