The screenshots I take on my phone are my second brain. They remember the conversations, funny memes, weeknight recipes, and any other useful or reassuring bit of knowledge I find in my ceaseless ...

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

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The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With ...

U.S. government information networks handling controlled unclassified and national security information are under continual cyber attack by sophisticated peer and near-peer adversaries. Evolving cyber ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Google is rolling out a redesign of the Messages app’s Details experience that leverages Material 3 Expressive. When you long-press on a message and tap the three-dot overflow menu for “View details,” ...

A veteran hacker warns how quantum computing could quietly dismantle the cryptography securing Bitcoin and blockchains. A hacker-turned-defender warns that most of the industry is asleep on crypto’s ...