The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers ...
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Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn

Sextortion-based hacking, which hijacks a victim’s webcam or blackmails them with nudes they’re tricked or coerced into sharing, has long ...
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Chinese coders barred from Pentagon cloud systems

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the Pentagon will no longer allow Chinese nationals to work as coders ...
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Broadcom ties Private AI to VMware Cloud Foundation rollout

Broadcom is expanding VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with new AI and security features as more companies move to modernise their ...
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Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

WIRED copublished an investigation this week with The Markup and CalMatters showing that dozens of data brokers have been hiding ...
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Layoffs hit Oracle Cloud teams in US, India, and Canada

Cybercriminals know something that many businesses are still learning: people remain the weakest link in any security system. Human error ...
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Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

Zhou added in his statement that Securam will be fixing the vulnerabilities Omo and Rowley found in future models of ...
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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data ...
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Nvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips

Nvidia’s chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that its GPUs “do not and should not have kill ...
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Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History

Last week, the United Kingdom began requiring residents to verify their ages before accessing online pornography and other adult content, ...
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