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Future-Proofing JWT Security: Crypto-Agility, Post-Quantum Signatures, and IAM Migration

Today, applications are built around identity systems. All API gateways, microservices, mobile backends, and single sign-on flows require some form of authentication and authorization. That trust is often conveyed via a JSON Web Token (JWT) in many systems. Their compactness, portability, and ability to be easily verified within distributed systems make them popular. A service can accept a token, validate its signature, verify the claims of the token (expiration, audience, subject, and issuer),

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The Verge Tech

The Analogue Pocket gets a Supreme makeover in red or gold

Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody aluminum with 24K Gold-plated and custom red glossy finishes. They also have a Supreme logo on the front and the back. I dig the colors, but not the logos. (But I'm not really a Supreme guy.) No price is currently listed on

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The Verge Tech

Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen

Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac. While some features like displaying album art are not available, the Sonos Live Activity provides basic details and controls when listening to music or podcasts thro

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Trump’s dumb border wall

A bulldozer plows through land during construction for a section of border wall near Santa Elena Canyon on August 14, 2026 in Big Bend National Park, Texas. | Photo: Brandon Bell via Getty Images About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

Give an autonomous agent a wallet and spending guardrails so it can pay for paywalled APIs, MCP servers, and web content. This post connects OpenClaw to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the x402 protocol, using the aws-agents-pay plugin to make bounded, human-approved testnet payments.

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AWS News Blog

AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Foundation open source projects gathered to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push the projects forward. […]

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