This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why ...

This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp.

Over 120,000 Bitcoin private keys were exposed through a flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer’s random-number generator, affecting multiple wallet platforms. The vulnerability, linked to the Mersenne ...

For the first time, a technique to generate true random numbers is ready to be deployed in real-life situations. It potentially paves the way for the development of hack-proof digital security.

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Researchers have developed a chip-based quantum random number generator that provides high-speed, high-quality operation on a miniaturized platform. This advance could help move quantum random number ...

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A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date. By Isabella Kwai A fast-growing app for women was hacked ...

The discourse around artificial intelligence has all been about pursuing the bleeding edge, pushing the tech into the future as fast as possible. So maybe it should be refreshing that OpenAI's latest ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. Dubbed CURBy, ...