The White House has released financial disclosure forms for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for 2022 as Republicans accuse the first family of raking in millions from foreign sources.

Filings show that the US president and the first lady, Jill Biden, have cash in the bank worth between $1.05 million and $2.58 million.

The records, first obtained by Fox News Digital, show the presidential couple had little change from the previous year.

The Bidens owe between $250,000 and $500,000 on a mortgage on their Delaware home, as well as between $30,000 and $100,000 on other loans.

They said Biden earned less than $201 in royalties for his 2007 flop memoir ‘Promises to Keep’.

He later picked up between $2,501 and $5,000 for his post-Obama administration 2017 memoir ‘Promise Me, Dad.’

But the commander-in-chief’s net worth is dwarfed by his vice-president. Kamala Harris, and her husband Doug Emmoff. 

The second family is worth between $3.42 million and $8.29 million, the disclosure forms show.

They owe between between $1 million and $5 million on a mortgage on their home in Brooklyn in New York.

Amazingly, the vice president picked up more than $41,000 her for her 2019 memoir, ‘The Truths We Hold.’ 

The former senator also was paid more than $40,000 in advance for her 2019 children’s book ‘SuperHeroes Are Everywhere’, raking in $456,000 in total.

Biden’s disclosures come amid repeated allegations from conservatives that his family have benefitted from foreign payments.

Congressman James Comer of Kentucky argues Biden’s relatives have raked in $10m (£8m) from entities abroad.

But the oversight committee chair has yet to uncover evidence directly linking the president to such payments, or unearth any illegal conduct. 

White House officials have trashed the claims as ‘baseless innuendo.’

The Republican-backed report outlines a list of various companies and financial records tied to Biden’s family members.

They include his disgraced son, Hunter Biden, and daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden.

The 53-year-old is currently mired in a slew of legal woes, including a paternity case with a former stripper and a federal jury probe into his business affairs. 

The 30-page tirade contains bank records of bank transactions, obtained through subpoena, that Republican lawmakers allege show the Biden family’s links to China and Romania. 

They appear to show the receipt of money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, a real estate mogul who faced corruption charges in Romania.

Republicans vowed to probe Biden, his administration and his family when they took over control of the US House of Representatives in last year’s midterm elections.

Another conservative-led House panel is also investigating a letter published by 51 former intelligence officials before the 2020 White House election.

The letter, allegedly organized by Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken, who is now the US secretary of state, to discredit media reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Leaked emails from the laptop also contained evidence of Hunter Biden’s business dealings, as well as lewd photos about his drug abuse and sex life.

Federal prosecutors have been investigating Hunter Biden over issues with his taxes and a gun purchase since 2018.

Elon Musk announced Monday that Twitter is ‘purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years.’

Users immediately shared concerns over losing accounts of their loved ones, noting the tweets are a way to memorialize them.

It seems the purge is geared toward lurkers who use the platform yet rarely share updates. 

Donald Trump has not tweeted since 2021, even though he was banned for over a year, and Apple has never shared anything on its account.

According to Twitter’s policy, users should log in to their accounts at least once every 30 days to avoid permanent removal due to prolonged inactivity. 

Andrew Tate, an internet personality who was just released from jail for suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, shared his concerns about the purge.

‘Very good idea. But my father died and I still read his account daily. Please keep him active,’ Tate tweeted.

Other people are asking Musk to find a way to memorialize the accounts. 

While many users fear their loved ones’ accounts will be part of the purge, these users can export an archive of the tweets if they can access the account. 

Go to your Account settings by clicking the ‘more’ icon in the navigation bar and selecting Your account from the menu.

Then click on Download an archive of your data.

Another option is to see All My Tweets, connect the website to your account and then enter a person’s Twitter handle. 

All My Tweets creates a file with the last 3,200 tweets shared from that account, which you can then download, save or print – but only if their account is not private.

The announcement has also been met with some excitement – removing such accounts would free up long-coveted usernames.

But how people can scoop up these names has not been confirmed. 

Musk warned that the move would cause users’ follower counts to drop dramatically.

Trump was booted from Twitter on January 8, 2021 due to ‘the risk of the US president using the platform to incite further violence.’

However, the ban was lifted in November 2022, about one month after Musk took the platform over.

It has yet to be seen if Trump’s account will be removed.

However, Apple has never shared a single tweet since joining in September 2011.

The account has more than nine million followers but is not following a single person – not even CEO Tim Cook.

Twitter has, on several occasions, threatened a purge to kickoff inactive users and let others take the handles – one of the last announcements was in 2019. 

Musk has made several major changes since purchasing Twitter for $44 billion in October 2021, including firing more than 80 percent of the original staff.

The CEO has also overhauled the platform, notably allowing anyone to be verified by paying for Twitter Blue and pulling legacy checkmarks from those who do not want to pay the monthly fee.

The legacy checkmarks disappeared last month.

Under the original blue tick system, Twitter had roughly 400,000 verified users, including Hollywood actors, star athletes, journalists, human rights activists, and public agencies.

In the past, the checks meant that Twitter had verified that users were who they said they were as a method to prevent impersonation and the spread of misinformation.

But now anyone can buy a Twitter Blue subscription, and it no longer means the user is verified – other than confirming a phone number.

Google has unveiled a huge update that signals ‘the beginning of the end’ for using passwords to access Gmail accounts.

The web giant has started to roll out its new passkey technology, which will allow billions of users to sign in to websites and apps the way they unlock a device — with a fingerprint, face scan or a device PIN that can verify their identity. 

It is expected that the new type of online sign-in will eventually replace passwords, although it will be a while before this happens because the technology is still in its infancy.

Experts say it will allow people to access and use their new password-less sign-in credentials – or passkey – across different devices.

This will prevent them from having to sign in to every account again on each device, reducing the risk of using easily-guessable passwords and therefore creating a more secure system.

The technology has also been rolled out in Apple’s iOS16 and the latest MacOS release, while Microsoft has been running it through the Authenticator app.

Ebay, PayPal and Docusign are already using the passkey, too, along with a number of other businesses.

It was created by industry body the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance and World Wide Web Consortium, with Google, Apple and Microsoft the primary drivers.

The tech giants said the new system also allows people to use a fingerprint or facial scan authentication on their smartphone as a way of signing in on another device nearby, regardless of which operating system or browser they are running.

This is a feature already in place for Apple devices, where someone wearing an Apple Watch can unlock a phone or MacBook.

This reduces the need for people to remember a wide range of username and password combinations to log in to different services, which has often led to passwords being reused across multiple accounts.

Experts have previously warned that this is one of the biggest security risks in the digital world.

Users can create and store a passkey on any compatible device they use  – such as iPhones running iOS16 and Android devices running Android 9.

They will also be able to share it to other devices from the OS using services such as iCloud or password managers like Dashlane and 1Password.

To set one up, visit g.co/passkeys. 

Enter your password to access your account, then click ‘Create a passkey’.

You will be asked to select ‘Continue’ to set one up for the device you are using, or ‘Use another device’ for a different one.

Once you’ve done this, you will be asked to place your fingerprint on your device as you normally would to unlock it, at which point the passkey will be created.

If at any point you suspect someone else can access your account, or if you lose the only device that the passkey is stored on, you can revoke passkeys in the Google account settings.

The technology works by storing a cryptographic private key on a user’s device, while there is a corresponding public key uploaded to Google. 

When a user signs in, the device uses the private key to generate a signature once it has solved a unique challenge. 

This signature is in turn verified using the public key which then allows the user to access their account.

Google never sees the private key or biometrics used, only the signature generated and the public key. 

The internet giant says this will prevent people using phishing, SIM-swap and other methods to obtain passwords or bypass existing authentication methods.

However, Google stresses that users should never create passkeys on a shared device because anyone that can access and unlock that device would then be able to access your Gmail account. 

‘While passwords will be with us for some time to come, they are often frustrating to remember and put you at risk if they end up in the wrong hands,’ Google said in its announcement.

‘Last year – alongside FIDO Alliance, Apple and Microsoft – we announced we would begin work to support passkeys on our platform as an easier and more secure alternative to passwords. 

‘And today, we’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms. 

‘They’ll be an additional option that people can use to sign in, alongside passwords, 2-Step Verification (2SV), etc.’

Despite the rollout, Jake Moore, Global cybersecurity adviser at ESET, said we are still a long way from the end of the password.

But he added that ‘at least Microsoft, Google and Apple are attempting to pave the way to make account access for secure as well as convenient’.

‘It isn’t something that can be achieved overnight but it highlights that more needs to be done when it comes to people’s password security.’

Andrew Shikiar, executive director of FIDO Alliance, said: ‘We’re thrilled with Google’s announcement today as it dramatically moves the needle on passkey adoption due both to Google’s size, and to the breadth of the actual implementation — which essentially enables any Google account holder to use passkeys.

‘I also think that this implementation will serve as a great example for other service providers and stands to be a tipping point for the accelerated adoption of passkeys.’