Google is planning to end support for SMS-based two-factor authentication in Gmail, Forbes reports. Sending a code to your personal phone via text message has long been an option Google offered to verify your identity, but it has unavoidable security issues the company wants to address. The goal is to “reduce the impact of rampant,…
Nine flags further restructuring amid cultural reset Jonathan Barrett Nine Entertainment will expand its restructuring program into next financial year as part of a business and cultural reset after the company’s earnings were buffeted by subdued advertising conditions and the end of a content deal. The broadcaster and publisher reported a 15% drop in its…
Olympians Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan mourn plane crash victims Several members of the U.S. figure skating community were on board the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter. Nancy Kerrigan, Nathan Chen and dozens of other U.S. figure skating stars will converge in Washington on Sunday to pay tribute to the victims of…
The Apple iPhone 16e looks like a solid handset for most consumers. It’s got plenty of power, a gorgeous display and the Action button that first debuted with the iPhone 15 Pro series. It doesn’t, however, offer any way to wirelessly charge the device using MagSafe. Just because Apple excluded the feature doesn’t mean you’re…
A New Zealand government minister said on Monday he had resigned from his post after “placing his hand” on a staff member’s upper arm during an “animated” discussion. The country’s minister for commerce and consumer affairs, Andrew Bayly, told reporters his behaviour towards the staff member had been “overbearing”. “For that, I am deeply sorry,”…
Thirty-eight years after his film career began in a swaggeringly shabby coat in Withnail and I, Richard E Grant gave us another pop culture moment at the last show of London fashion week, modelling a rather smarter olive tweed number on the Burberry catwalk. A starry line-up at Tate Britain on Monday also included White…