In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

​For much of the past decade, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) lived primarily in academic journals and standards committees.

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

As Google warns that the elliptic curve cryptography protecting the Bitcoin blockchain might be at risk sooner than expected, ...

Google's quantum paper made headlines with that number. Here's what it means, what's actually at risk, and why 6.9 million ...

Caltech slashes quantum computing requirements 100x, undermining the core argument that Bitcoin's encryption is safe for decades.

Whistleblowers have given an inside view of the algorithm arms race which followed TikTok's explosive growth Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people's feeds, ...

In 1869 an innovative new material was created: plastic. Initially envisioned as a substitute for ivory in making billiard balls, the versatility of this new material has seen it applied to almost ...

More than two billion people across the world lack adequate access to one of the essential elements of life: clean water. Although governments and aid groups have helped many living in water-stressed ...