For roughly three decades, experts in digital cryptography have been monitoring a distant threat: that a powerful enough quantum computer could one day render the most widely used forms of encryption—the layer of code protecting everything from national security secrets to personal banking records—obsolete. Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is unveiling the final version of three new algorithms, long in development, that are designed
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Raindrop is a terrific free tool for organizing bookmarks. I use it to save links for classes I’m teaching and topics I’m researching. I also save link collections to share with friends,
Size matters, and it matters to Donald Trump more than most. Trump kicked off his presidency by exaggerating the modest turnout at his inauguration; now, he’s desperate to diminish the crowds showing up for his 2024 opponent.
Over the weekend, the former president posted on Truth Social
The other day, on a long road trip in a rental car, I found myself looking for a place to pull off the road. As I’ve done many times before, I typed into Google Maps “Food Near Me.” I peered at the options. (Don’t worry, I was in the passenger seat.) The response was bleak: Google recommended a string of chain restaurants. Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and so forth.
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Soon, new Patreon memberships purchased on the iOS app will be subject to Apple’s 30% App Store fee in the coming months, the crowdfunding platform announced Monday in a blog post.
Patreon has to implement the change by November or risk being kicked off the App Store. That would have devastating effects since Patreon CEO Jack Conte ">said
The stories are getting too numerous to track. An electric bike battery fire injured four, one critically, in Brooklyn in June. Scooter batteries set off a house blaze in Sydney in May, and an apartment fire in San Francisco
In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services.
A broad new government initiative, dubbed “Time Is Money,” includes a rollout of new
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is due to interview Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the X social medi
Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents.
The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim comes a day after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts t
Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision.”
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