Quantum computers are closer than ever. The year 2026 has been internationally designated the "Year of Quantum Security" -- ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum ...

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 ...

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Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...

President Donald J. Trump attends a dignified transfer on March 7. This photo was used in a political fundraiser email less than one week later. (Daniel Torok/the White House) A fundraising email ...

In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it’s ever used in warfare, a tool that ...

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem | Innovation Correspondent Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo ...

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...