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Google announced a small update Tuesday that could usher in the biggest change in the history of cybersecurity: the death of the password. Going forward, so-called passkeys will replace passwords as Google’s default sign-in tool. The company says its plan is to make “passwords a rarity, and eventually obsolete.”