Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

The RC4 encryption algorithm is still an option in Kerberos, despite being a weak cipher with vulnerabilities that allow recovering plaintext information. It is worth noting that Microsoft pledged to ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved in-kind creation and redemption for cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs), giving authorized representatives the ability to ...

The second core update of the 2025 year, the June 2025 core update, is now done rolling out and complete. It started on the last day of June, June 30, 2025 and completed about 16 days and 18 hours ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

ROCHESTER — At Mayo Clinic's annual AI Summit in downtown Rochester, a group of physicians and scientists discussed how generative artificial intelligence is being used at Mayo Clinic — and how it's ...

Abstract: This paper deals with genetic algorithm implementation in Python. Genetic algorithm is a probabilistic search algorithm based on the mechanics of natural selection and natural genetics. In ...