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Apple is holding its Surprise and Shine event today, September ninth, and the headline attraction is something that's been rumored for years — a foldable iPhone Ultra. If the leaks hold, this is the biggest hardware moment Apple has had in a long time, and we'll know by end of day whether the reality matches the hype.
Meanwhile, developers on Hacker News are asking a question that will feel familiar to anyone who's logged into a website recently — what exactly happened to authentication? The thread traces a slow unraveling: email and password on separate pages, endless SSO redirects, passkeys that confuse more than they clarify. It's a sharp reminder that security improvements don't always mean better experiences for the people living through them.
And on the AI tools front, a new browser extension called T3rnel is taking a different approach to agent-driven automation. Rather than spinning up a fresh browser that has to log in from scratch, it hands an AI agent the session you're already signed into — while keeping a human in the loop to review and block actions before they happen. It's a small but meaningful shift in how we think about trust in agentic systems.
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