They do actually have checkouts for other stores within their stores. I believe that I have seen checkouts for Subway, Pizza Hut and a few other stores within Walmarts. Target has CVS and Starbucks within their stores...

The fact that Apple isn't using a number matching scheme on their MFA prompts is pretty stupid. Especially since they bill themselves as more secure than the alternatives.

Microsoft has been using number matching schemes in their MFA prompts for years AFAIK. In our org, I enforce the version that requires the user to enter the number they are seeing on the screen rather than choosing from a list of 3. It will also show the GPS coords in the form of a map pin on every attempt so the user can see where the authentication attempt is being made from.

Pretty much the same use-cases here. It is pretty impressive how far it has come already and we are just at the beginning.

The government should be going after UHG for paying the ransom instead of offering a reward to more slimeballs.

Also, hopefully this reward is not tax-payer funded...

Yep. People will "just think of the children" all the way until they have no liberty left.

But, hey, at least our children will be coddled and safe in the warm embrace of the state.

Yes, the summary is missing the point, because it's a summary and that's just how articles work these days. It's a purposeful race to the punchiest headline and is so ridiculous... but here we are. Railing against it is sort of like complaining about being wet because you are standing in the rain.

But yea, it was the GPS coordinates of the device(s) that "saw" the AirPods that were reported to FindMy. Since the phone(s) with the strongest BT signal from the AirPods was/were in the house closest to the curb where the AirPods were located, it was that location that was reported.

You had me until "new ideas and stories"

It *is* Dr. Who after all. It's Cybermen, Daleks, Sontarans and Zygons all the way down.

Yeah, never purchased anything Apple created. Always been a PC and Android user. I am seriously considering going FOSS for my next phone.

Or, in other words, not using RCS.

This whole thing about green vs blue bubbles is reducing the problem beyond the point of being helpful.

Nobody cares about the color of the bubble, what they care about is the lack of rich text and multi-media features.

Yeah, not sure I would trust candy from a box where anyone can have unsupervised access. Call me distrustful...

One is a rich text editor and one is not.

There is a good reason to have a plain text editor in the system and people use it for that purpose.

No kidding.

The fact that Notepad has always been a no-frills-just-a-text-editor is its selling point.

They killed WordPad and are now just re-creating it with Notepad.... it makes no sense.

I think the government should sue. AFAICT, it is already illegial to fund US sanctioned entities from within the US. If it is found that the entities were operating from a sanctioned state then there is a case to be made that this was an illegal action.

Driving energy drink prices through the roof!

Why are you using an advertising company's browser anyway?