Weekly output: Google I/O teaser, satellite-to-phone services, passkeys, connected-home considerations, Matter

I’m spending a few days in cooler confines–Monday morning, I head to Vancouver for the second year of Web Summit’s conference there. And just like last year, I won’t have enough time to do much wandering around British Columbia’s largest city and taking in its stunningly beautiful mountains-and-sea scenery, because I have three panels to moderate over Tuesday and Wednesday (with the conference hosts paying for my hotel and reimbursing my airfare).

5/5/2026: Google Teases I/O Pregame Event. How to Watch ‘The Android Show’ on May 12, PCMag

This was one of the shortest posts I’ve written for PCMag, owing to the paucity of information in the brief teaser video Google published.

5/7/2026: FCC Chair: Starlink Isn’t Enough. We Need at Least 3 Satellite-to-Phone Services, PCMag

I spent Wednesday afternoon at the wireless trade group CTIA’s annual summit in Washington. Most of the talks on the program didn’t yield anything too newsworthy, but Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr’s appearance met that bar even though he didn’t talk about his clumsy attempts to leverage the FCC’s broadcast licensing authority to punish TV shows and TV hosts for being mean to Republicans.

5/7/2026: Passkey-Adoption Report Finds Many Orgs Don’t Know How to Quit Passwords, PCMag

I had an advance copy of this FIDO Alliance survey but didn’t have time to write it up in advance; fortunately, Thursday did have enough idle time for me to get this post written and filed.

5/8/2026: Smart Homes In Practice: Bridging Design, Integration, And Market Promises With Real Human-Centered Living Outcomes, Smarter Infrastructure Summit

I had a brief trip to Chicago–well, its suburb Rosemont–for this small conference. I was a late addition to this panel, in which moderator Lisa An Wong quizzed me and architect Stephen Yas and connect-home integrator Corey Ardell about ways to get homes and the appliances in them thoughtfully wired.

5/9/2026: Matter Smart Home Standard Still Looks Immaterial At Retail, Smarter Infrastructure Summit

The title of this talk I did mirrors the story I did for PCMag almost three years ago; that post caught the attention of the conference organizers, and the chance to revisit the topic and get in some practice with doing a solo presentation led me to accept their travel-expenses-covered invitation.

NCSC Endorses Passkeys as Default Login Method

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre now recommends passkeys as the default login method, marking a significant shift away from passwords. This endorsement comes after a year of collaboration with industry and notable improvements in passkey technology.

https://osintsights.com/ncsc-endorses-passkeys-as-default-login-method?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Passkeys #FidoAlliance #Ncsc #DefaultLogin #Authentication

As #DigitalIdentity ecosystems scale globally, having strong, independent, and internationally recognized conformance test programs for #Standards is essential for #interoperability and #trust across jurisdictions and implementations.

#FIDOAlliance 🤝 #OpenIDFoundation

https://openid.net/leading-organisations-join-oidf-independent-conformance-test-program/

How can Amazon be part of the Fido Alliance yet implement FIDO2's WebAuthn so poorly, with the exception of AWS? Using a username and password or a passkey and 2FA via OTP only is the opposite of a correct implementation.

The whole thing feels a bit forced and not quite right. For months now. Nothing's changed about the process.

Or am I missing something here?

#fido2 #passkey #Amazon #FidoAlliance #WebAuthn

Passkeys are rewriting the digital security playbook! Imagine logins without passwords, with phishing attacks a thing of the past—and a 98% success rate to boot. Ready to see what the future holds?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/the-security-advantages-of-passkeys-a-2025-perspective/

#passkeys
#passwordless
#cybersecurity
#phishingprotection
#databreach
#fidoalliance
#authentication
#infosec
#digitalsecurity
#2025trends