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In this quick tutorial, we tell you about a useful setting that will further strengthen the security of your X (formerly Twitter) account and prevent hackers from gaining access to it.

Like most online services, X also lets you set up two-factor authentication to add an extra layer of security to your account. Two-factor authentication ensures that even if someone knows your password (and usernames are always public), they still need a unique code to get in.

In addition, X offers an optional account security feature that requires you (or the hacker) to enter the email address or phone number before requesting a password reset link or code. This is turned off by default, which means anybody with your username can request a password reset link.

Now, the password reset link will obviously be sent to your email address on file with X, and unless the hacker has also gained access to your email account, they won’t be able to change the password.

That said, turning on this optional security feature will eliminate or reduce the unsolicited password reset emails you get.

X is a valuable place to share thoughts, build relationships, and reach the masses (the new Apple CEO, John Ternus, had over 70 million views and gained 800k followers on his first post in less than 24 hours).

Plus, X now even has a bank account feature and debit card (@XMoney) in the United States involving real money, which makes it even more valuable and worth securing.

So to reduce unnecessary password reset emails and secure your account, follow the steps below to enable this additional password-protection feature.

Activate the password reset protect feature for your X account

1. Open the updated X app.
2. Swipe left on the For You tab or tap your profile icon at the top left corner.
3. Tap Settings and privacy.
4. Tap Security and account access.
5. Select Security.
6. Turn on ‘Password reset protect‘ under the ‘Additional password protection’ section.
7. Enter your current account password and click OK.

You can also turn it on on the web by visiting x.com/settings/security.

Moving forward, when you or a malicious agent tries to reset your X account password, a ‘Confirm your account‘ screen will appear asking for your full email address or phone number before sending the password reset link. Without this optional feature activated, X just asks you or the hacker to select the email address or phone number on file (only initials are shown) to receive a reset code.

What do you think of this? Will you be enabling it for your X account?

Also, check out:

• 10 tips to secure all your social media accounts
• How to save GIFs from X to iPhone Photos app

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/09/02/password-reset-protect-x/

Apple’s board has structured incoming CEO John Ternus’ first full-year compensation so that the bulk of his wealth depends on whether the company’s stock outperforms other members of the S&P 500. Ternus will receive a $3 million base salary and a targeted annual equity award of $55 million beginning in fiscal 2027. Three-quarters of that award consists of performance-based restricted stock units that vest according to Apple’s total shareholder return relative to the rest of the index. The remaining 25 percent vests on a simple time schedule — 12.5 percent every six months over four years.

The design is straightforward: Ternus has a direct financial incentive to deliver returns that beat the broader large-cap market and, by extension, to reward shareholders. Apple also granted him a smaller, prorated restricted-stock award of $2.5 million for the few weeks he served as CEO in fiscal 2026. Cook, now executive chairman, received a reduced $2 million salary and a $45 million target equity award that is less heavily weighted toward relative performance.

The structure continues Apple’s long-standing practice of linking a large share of executive pay to multi-year stock results rather than short-term operational metrics. Because the performance hurdle is measured against S&P 500 peers rather than an absolute stock-price target, Ternus cannot simply ride a rising market; Apple must outperform. That alignment is meant to keep management focused on capital allocation, product execution, and capital-return decisions that actually move the needle versus the index.

Whether that same incentive could eventually support another stock split is an open question. Apple last split its shares 4-for-1 in 2020 when the stock price had climbed high enough that some retail investors found individual shares cumbersome. A split does not change the company’s market value or the economic substance of Ternus’ award, but it can improve liquidity, broaden the shareholder base, and make the stock more accessible to index funds and individual buyers. If the board and Ternus conclude that a more widely held, more liquid stock would help Apple’s relative total-shareholder-return ranking over the multi-year vesting window, a split could become one of several tools they consider. Nothing in the current filing points to an imminent split, and any such decision would still rest with the board. The pay package simply makes clear that Ternus’ personal payoff will be larger if Apple’s stock does better than its S&P 500 neighbors — regardless of how that outperformance is achieved.

Apple’s CEO compensation structure is largely the same; the differences are in size and in what has been disclosed so far.

Cook’s last full-year CEO package (fiscal 2025) used the same architecture Apple is now using for Ternus: $3 million salary, equity that is 75% performance-based and 25% time-based, and performance vesting tied to Apple’s total shareholder return versus other S&P 500 companies.

That 75/25 mix and the relative-TSR test are unchanged for Ternus’ $55 million fiscal 2027 equity award.

Component	Cook as CEO (FY2025)	Ternus as CEO (FY2027 target)
Base salary	$3 million	$3 million
Target equity	$50 million	$55 million
Equity mix	75% performance / 25% time	75% performance / 25% time
Performance metric	TSR vs S&P 500	TSR vs S&P 500
Target cash bonus	$6 million (200% of salary)	Not yet disclosed
Target total (disclosed)	$59 million	~$58 million (salary + equity only)
Reported/realized total	$74.3 million	N/A yet

Cook’s reported 2025 total of about $74.3 million was higher than his $59 million target because the cash bonus paid out at $12 million (twice target) and because the accounting value of the stock awards was $57.5 million rather than the $50 million target.

Ternus’ disclosed package is slightly richer on equity ($55 million vs $50 million) and silent so far on an annual cash bonus.

SEC filings omit details regarding an annual cash bonus program for Ternus. If Apple awards him a standard executive annual cash bonus structure matching Cook’s $6 million target, his full target will land around $64 million (above Cook’s $59 million target). If no cash bonus is awarded, his disclosed baseline target ($58 million) sits slightly below Cook’s total $59 million target.

The package does not represent a new philosophy. Apple kept the same pay architecture, the same relative-performance test, and the same salary. The material changes are modest: a $5 million larger equity target for Ternus, an undisclosed cash-bonus question, and the absence (so far) of the perks and above-target cash that inflated Cook’s reported 2025 total. Alignment with shareholders via beating the S&P 500 is the same idea under which Cook already lived.

Bottom line: It’s good news for Apple shareholders that the CEO is rewarded for AAPL outperforming the broader market.

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Source link: https://macdailynews.com/2026/09/02/apple-ceo-ternus-has-a-direct-incentive-to-beat-the-market-how-apple-structured-his-equity-award/