The digital revolution was supposed to free us. Information at our fingertips, music without scarcity, art unbound from the shackles of plastic discs and corporate gatekeepers. And in a way it did. A ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With ...

Through the looking glass: Artist Stephanie Rentschler recently unveiled SlimeMoldCrypt, an interactive installation where art meets science by using biology to generate stronger encryption keys.

Hong Kong-Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), an international banking giant, announced the first successful test of quantum computing in a trading application on Thursday. Researchers at HSBC used a ...

Defense ETFs are becoming increasingly fascinating plays in the market, and it’s not just global tensions driving the rally. There’s a new catalyst in town: algorithms. With the U.S. and U.K. recently ...

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...

Abstract: The principal goal guiding the design of any encryption algorithm must be security against unauthorized attacks. However, for all practical applications, performance and the cost of ...

On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has enlisted quantum-safe encryption pioneer Arqit Quantum to help lead on the UK’s looming migration to post-quantum cryptography. The NCSC’s PQC Pilot ...

U.S. government information networks handling controlled unclassified and national security information are under continual cyber attack by sophisticated peer and near-peer adversaries. Evolving cyber ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...