Microsoft makes all new accounts passwordless by default

Microsoft has announced that all new personal accounts will be "passwordless by default." This replaces traditional passwords with alternatives like passkeys, biometrics, one-time codes, Microsoft Authenticator, etc. to secure accounts against phishing, brute-force attacks, etc.

Once the users are signed in, they will be prompted to enroll passkey. Existing users can delete their password by visiting the account settings.

This simplified experience gets you signed in faster and in our experiments has reduced password use by over 20%

🔗 Bleeping Computer
🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

KDE Plasma LTS releases are no more.

https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-plasma-lts-discontinued/

microG update 2025-03-02:
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Brand new notes:

  [None]

       x


Updated notes:


    microg-roms

         Added iodéOS
         Updated some text

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microG update 2025-05-03:
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Brand new notes:

  [None]

       x


Updated notes:


    installer-minmicrog

IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE:
         Added text about potentially buggy CI
versions and a link to a known good
version to use for now.

(This issue has zero impact on people
who have already installed microG with
this installer. MinMicroG is not a
maintenance tool, once you have installed
the included components, its job is done.)

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RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io
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DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
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#FUTO #Keyboard Updates： The Swipe Dataset is Public!

https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/44d2e41a-307b-49ab-9a14-1e2e1eaa9a94

You can access the dataset here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/futo-org/swipe.futo.org

More info about FUTO Keyboard
https://t.me/Libreware/1299

You can learn more about FUTO here: https://futo.org

Logseq power users, this one’s for you!

https://itsfoss.com/logseq-plugins/

Firefox could be doomed without a Google search deal

Mozilla’s CFO has said that Firefox’s future will be at risk if the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) restricts Google’s search monopoly. Google’s payments for the default search engine on Firefox make up about 85% of Mozilla’s revenue.

Losing this revenue means Mozilla would be forced to make drastic cuts, which could "put Firefox out of business," along with other nonprofit efforts like open-source web tools.

Without the revenue, Mozilla and other small, independent browsers may be forced to scale back operations and cut support for critical projects like Gecko, the only remaining browser engine competing with Google’s Chromium and Apple’s WebKit. 

🔗 The Verge
🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

#microg any comment?

<esse.bruno:discord> it uses MicroG which likely still leaks your location to apps without the location permission granted to them, if that's not bad enough for you, then you don't care about privacy

<esse.bruno:discord> [reply]: you can find proof of this in some source code and wiki page commits, there used to be a time frame of YEARS in which the implementation status wiki page for the gmscore(?) repo put on a joke about the implementation status of network location, saying it "does not honor app ops" (re @esse.bruno: it uses MicroG which likely still leaks your location to apps without the location permission grante...)

May be something that microg users should check more deeply.

https://t.me/GrapheneOS/1737056/1921773

https://t.me/GrapheneOS/1737056/1921779

Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
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Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
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What went wrong with wireless USB
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Lessons from Building a Translator App That Beats Google Translate and DeepL
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Igatha

An open-source SOS signaling and recovery app designed for war zones and disaster areas, enabling offline emergency communication when traditional networks fail.

🔗 Links:
- Download: Github | IzzySoft | Appstore
- Screenshots
- Features
- Source code
Developer: Nizarmah

❗️Friendly reminder:

If you find it useful, You may star the repo/app, donate to the developer, or perhaps you may also contribute to the development of this project.

🏷 Tags: #Android #iOS #SOS

No deleted account found from 52 scanned users from this group 🚫👻

If you use AI, other options exist than a PC that costs too much and does too little. If you are on the other end of the spectrum that is tired of seeing AI hyped in everything this is also welcome news.

https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-you-dont-need-ai-pc/

OnePlus Nord CE5 tipped for June India launch after BIS certification
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/05/04/oneplus-nord-ce5-tipped-for-june-india-launch-after-bis-certification/