Algorithms that set prices for vending machines, apartment rents, and hotel rooms are drawing federal antitrust scrutiny as regulators argue these systems can function like old-fashioned cartels, even ...

If you’ve ever played at a crypto game and wondered how you can really know a spin or a crash round isn’t rigged: the answer is provably fair mechanics. It’s a transparent system that lets players ...

French police raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s X Tuesday and summoned the tech billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the social media company and its AI chatbot Grok. The ...

The world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency has long been hailed as a revolutionary financial system, offering decentralized transactions and heightened ...

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

Tesla is facing a new scandal that once again sees the electric automaker accused of misleading customers. In the past, it has been caught making “misleading statements” about the safety of its ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...