It's an aggressive move that'll effectively force operators of critical French infrastructure to move away from traditional cryptographic systems. Reading time 3 minutes Sometime in the future, a ...

While many abbreviations are straightforward, some are derived from a country's official name, not its common English one. For example, CIV stands for Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and CUW represents ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

Every generation of technology produces its own countdown to catastrophe. In 1999, it was Y2K; the fear that the world’s computer systems would collapse at midnight on January 1, 2000, because ...

Even as leading AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic battle over the compute to train and release ever larger, more powerful models, other labs are going in a different direction — pursuing the ...

Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world. The malware—reportedly ...

Political analyst Jai Mrug breaks down the Tamil Nadu "number game", explaining why an 8% vote share is the critical threshold for any new entrant to be electorally relevant in the state. Using ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

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