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Minecraft players across Bedrock and Java Realms were hit by a widespread service outage on June 3, 2026, beginning around midnight Pacific time, with Bedrock authentication failures locking some players out of the game entirely while Realms users on both editions encountered server errors. The...

Microsoft users in Portugal and elsewhere have reported receiving unsolicited Microsoft verification codes by SMS, email, and Authenticator prompts in recent weeks, with the most likely causes ranging from credential-stuffing attempts to abuse of legitimate Microsoft Entra and OAuth sign-in...

Microsoft has begun phasing out SMS codes for authentication and account recovery on personal Microsoft accounts in May 2026, steering users toward passkeys, authenticator apps, and verified email instead of text-message verification. The company’s blunt explanation is that SMS-based...

Microsoft has confirmed in May 2026 that it will phase out SMS codes for personal Microsoft accounts, replacing text-message sign-in and recovery with passkeys, authenticator apps, and verified secondary email addresses across the Windows account ecosystem. The move is not a cosmetic cleanup of...