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Android, Google rende più facile e sicuro il passaggio a un nuovo password manager

Nelle scorse ore Google ha annunciato una novità piuttosto importante in Android che permetterà di passare più agevolmente da un password manager all’altro, trasferendo il database di credenziali (sia password sia passkey) direttamente, senza bisogno di esportarlo e importarlo manualmente, con tutti i rischi derivati dalla generazione di file contenenti dati così sensibili (spesso nemmeno crittografati).

Fino a oggi, cambiare password manager significava spesso esportare l’intero archivio delle credenziali in un file locale, salvarlo sul dispositivo e successivamente importarlo nel nuovo servizio. In molti casi questi file possono essere archiviati senza crittografia; e poi bisogna ricordarsi di eliminare il file una volta completata la procedura, per evitare che rimanga accessibile sul dispositivo. Con il nuovo sistema, invece, l’utente deve semplicemente avviare la procedura di importazione dal nuovo password manager scelto. A quel punto Android rileva automaticamente i gestori di password compatibili installati sullo smartphone e consente di selezionare quello da cui trasferire i dati.

Il sistema si occupa di gestire il collegamento tra i due servizi, richiedendo l’autorizzazione necessaria per il trasferimento. Dopo la conferma dell’utente, password e passkey verranno spostate senza la creazione di file intermedi e senza ulteriori passaggi manuali. Certo, non è un’operazione che si fa una volta a settimana, ma vista la criticità dei dati salvati fa comodo avere una procedura ad hoc che minimizzi i pericoli per l’utente.


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Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers

As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure, you could manually type all your logins into a new app, but now Android can do that for you without the tedium.

Google designed the new login transfer process to happen entirely on your phone, so you need the corresponding apps installed with your credentials synced. To start the move, you'll have to find the import option in the app you want to use. The location of that feature will vary, but in Google Password Manager (built into Android), it's near the top under the settings tab.

The import option in Google Password Manager will plug in to the new migration system, while export still just creates an unencrypted CSV with your passwords that can be dumped into any app. It will be similar in other apps, so make sure to start the process in the app you want to use. Currently, this works in Google's app, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane.

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Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers

As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure, you could manually type all your logins into a new app, but now Android can do that for you without the tedium.

Google designed the new login transfer process to happen entirely on your phone, so you need the corresponding apps installed with your credentials synced. To start the move, you'll have to find the import option in the app you want to use. The location of that feature will vary, but in Google Password Manager (built into Android), it's near the top under the settings tab.

The import option in Google Password Manager will plug in to the new migration system, while export still just creates an unencrypted CSV with your passwords that can be dumped into any app. It will be similar in other apps, so make sure to start the process in the app you want to use. Currently, this works in Google's app, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane.

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Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google

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Water resistance: IP68 (1.5m for 30 minutes)

Dimensions: 152.7 x 71.9 x 8.4mm

Weight: 204g

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Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bases long, so trying the other three DNA bases that don't appear in our reference genome means sending a total of 9 billion bases through AlphaGenome software.

AlphaGenome is designed to identify potential functions of non-coding DNA, which does not encode proteins but makes up the vast majority of the human genome. Some of this non-coding DNA is essential for controlling the activity of the protein-coding portion—it tells the cell where and when to make messenger RNAs, how to process them into mature protein-coding forms, and so on. But much of it appears to be little more than the remains of viruses and other molecular parasites.

Being able to identify the functional portion is very useful, as is having all the analysis done by a single software package. But until biologists start to use it heavily (assuming they do), it won't be clear what AlphaGenome offers beyond what we could have gotten out of its training data.

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Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bases long, so trying the other three DNA bases that don't appear in our reference genome means sending a total of 9 billion bases through AlphaGenome software.

AlphaGenome is designed to identify potential functions of non-coding DNA, which does not encode proteins but makes up the vast majority of the human genome. Some of this non-coding DNA is essential for controlling the activity of the protein-coding portion—it tells the cell where and when to make messenger RNAs, how to process them into mature protein-coding forms, and so on. But much of it appears to be little more than the remains of viruses and other molecular parasites.

Being able to identify the functional portion is very useful, as is having all the analysis done by a single software package. But until biologists start to use it heavily (assuming they do), it won't be clear what AlphaGenome offers beyond what we could have gotten out of its training data.

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