A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A.

Cipher Digital is selling $810M in high-yield bonds to fund its Stingray data centre in West Texas, leased to Amazon for 15 years, at a yield of 6.25%.

Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in crypto ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world's ...

Equally important are advances in quantum algorithms—ways to use quantum computers to attack encryption. Much interest in quantum computer development was spurred by Peter Shor's 1994 discovery of an ...

Google’s accelerated post-quantum encryption deadline has spurred other leaders in the industry, including Cloudflare, to consider pushing forward their own plans. The US National Institute of ...

The amplification process would alter the number of copies of each fragment, creating quantitative anomalies that are easily detected by the sender and recipient through a simple count. Suspecting a ...

Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that means, and why the world is already preparing for the worst. A hand holding a ...

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

Recently, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis made a statement that deserves serious attention from the cryptography community. He suggested that artificial intelligence, even when run on classical computing ...