Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Better Passkey Integration in Windows; People Are Being Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”; 16 billion passwords leaked in ‘mother of all breaches’… and More!
Every day, we scan the tech world for interesting news, sometimes from outside the tech world. Every Thursday, we feature news articles that grabbed our attention over the past week. We hope you find this week’s ‘Thursday Newsbytes’ informative and interesting!
It’s about time – Microsoft finally rolls out better passkey integration in Windows
Better passkey integration for Windows has arrived
Microsoft has rolled out a testing feature to improve passkey support on Windows.
A new partnership with one of the best password managers, 1Password, allows users to synchronize their credentials and passkeys on Windows 11.
Microsoft has also released a credential manager API plugin to allow other password managers to integrate with Windows.
Microsoft has been steadily phasing out passwords in favor of passkeys, which are much more secure and phishing-resistant. Only a few days ago, Microsoft announced that it was phasing out saved passwords in the Microsoft Authenticator app.
Come August 2025, Microsoft Authenticator will delete all saved passwords and will not allow you to create new saved passwords or autofill your credentials. Instead, you will now be prompted to use passkeys by default when creating a Microsoft account…
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but something is very bad — I’m very scared, and I need to go to the hospital.”
As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality.
The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what’s being called “ChatGPT psychosis” have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness.
And that’s not all. As we’ve continued reporting, we’ve heard numerous troubling stories about people’s loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending up in jail — after becoming fixated on the bot…
A staggering 16 billion login credentials — including usernames, emails, and passwords for Apple, Google, Facebook and more — have been leaked online, shocking cybersecurity researchers. The data even included the credentials of government officials, posing security concerns.
The compromised data was scraped from over 30 databases since the start of 2025 and likely stems from malicious “infostealer” software designed to extract sensitive information from victims’ devices, a report published by Cybernews reveals. The leaked credentials span nearly every type of online service imaginable from social media and email accounts to VPNs and developer platforms.
“No stone was left unturned,” the report warns.
How hackers can use the dataThis breach isn’t just about stolen email addresses, it’s about what cybercriminals can do with your full login credentials — especially if you tend to use the same passwords across your different accounts.
Once hackers get your email and password combo, they can launch a range of attacks…
Millions will be scammed on Prime Day. Don’t be one of them
It’s prime time for scammers, too.
It’s time.
A few times every year, Amazon and other online retailers gear up to drive their ink into the black by trying to offer exactly what you want at the price you’re willing to pay during sales like Prime Day. It’s an important day for many businesses as well as the economy as a whole — spending money seems to make the world go ’round.
It’s also a favorite time of year for scammers and thieves. Unfortunately, it’s not legal to corral them all up and make an old-time Celtic bonfire, so to them, it’s worth the time and effort to try and steal your stuff or your money. You can avoid it.
I hate having to write about this, but I hate scammers and their filthy tricks even more. While they’re always out there looking for a victim, big pre-planned sales like Prime Day bring them out of the woodwork. Flies, manure, and all that.
What you need to know is how they operate and the easy-to-spot tricks they will try to pull. Everyone can get scammed or robbed, but people who aren’t paying attention are the best targets because the easy methods often work; besides being crooks, scammers are usually lazy too, and will look for the easy way every time.
That means it’s pretty easy to avoid most of the garbage with a healthy level of paranoia…
AI was given a 9-5 job for a month as an experiment and it failed miserably — here’s what happened
An experiment from Anthropic with a surprising twist
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, is on a mission right now. The firm seems to be testing the limits of AI chatbots on a daily basis and being refreshingly honest about the pitfalls that throws up.
After recently showing that its own chatbot (as well as most of its competitors) is capable of resorting to blackmail when threatened, Anthropic is now testing how well Claude does when it literally replaces a human in a 9-5 job.
To be more exact, Anthropic put Claude in charge of an automated store in the company’s office for a month. The results were a horrendous mixed bag of experiences, showing both AI’s potential and its hilarious shortcomings.
Meet Claudius, the shop owner
This idea was completed in partnership with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company. Explaining the project in a blog post, Anthropic details a bit of the overall prompt given to the AI system:
“You are the owner of a vending machine. Your task is to generate profits from it by stocking it with popular products that you can buy from wholesalers. You go bankrupt if your money balance goes below $0″…
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