W3C in the news: "RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable" " Instead of passing a randomly generated string of text, passkeys use the "WebAuthn" standard to generate a public-private keypair"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/rip-passwords-passkey-support-rolls-out-to-chrome-stable/
RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable

With a huge list of caveats, initial Google passkey support is here.

Ars Technica
@w3c Not really so secure, is it now...
Anything that is ' in the cloud' is just waiting to be compromised...