Starting next week Google will overhaul its two-step verification (2SV) procedure and replace one-time codes sent via SMS with prompts shown on the user's smartphone. From a report: This change in the Google 2SV scheme comes after an increase in SS7 telephony protocol attacks that have allowed hackers to take over people's mobile phone numbers to receive one-time codes via SMS and break into user accounts. The rollout process for this feature is scheduled to start next week when Google will invite users to try mobile prompts instead of receiving a one-time code via SMS. Users need an Internet-connected smartphone to use this feature. Every time users will try to log in, Google will show a prompt on their phone asking the account owner to approve the login request. There's no one-time code that users have to fill in, and users can authorize a login request with the tap of a button.

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Assuming you know what Medium is.

What if Medium had been designed from the start to be the Mother Node of a network of clones. The basic software would be available for installing on your own server, but if you want, there's a place you can put your document today, now, quickly, where everyone will be able to read it, now and for the foreseeable future.

I wanted to do this as a community project a couple of years ago. It didn't happen. I've thought it through, have software for it, including the core editor which is already a popular open source project. If you want to try it out, start here.

This could be the cornerstone of the #indieweb, imho. It is work that's totally worth doing.

I have no idea what this means. Is there $232 million in a bank account somewhere that you can spend to hire people, pay rent, buy food?

A shooting attack on the military patrol vehicle in the Shia-majority province also injured another soldier.

Nabeel Rajab must be released 'unconditionally and immediately', says UN human rights office.

Pentagon says Abu Sayed was killed earlier this week in a strike on his headquarters in Kunar province.

A total of 7,563 people, including police, have been dismissed in the latest purge, the Anadolu news agency reports.

Crypto toolkit

Secure Remote Protocol

Find or use alien package conversion tool

Documentation formatting for Lab::Measurement

Alien::Build plugin to handle SourceForge links