Passkeys and user control concerns & Browser fingerprinting replaces tracking cookies - Hacker News (Oct 12, 2026)
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Passkeys and user control concerns & Browser fingerprinting replaces tracking cookies - Hacker News (Oct 12, 2026)

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Leaked files suggest a big four accounting firm backdated paperwork tied to more than $10 billion in assets, all to make one company look far smaller than it was. We'll get into who and what's being denied. Welcome to the Automated Daily, Hacker News edition, the podcast created by Generative

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AI. I'm Trent Teller, and today is October 12, 2026. On the menu, a skeptical look at passkeys, how websites track you without cookies, a new consumer win in New York, game preservation, crowdsourced maps of North Korea, Linux phones,

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and a pair of stories from the world of mathematics. Let's start with that investigation. BBC Panorama and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism say leaked documents show Deloitte in Cyprus helped Roman Abramovich's offshore network falsify records.

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