Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard has spent decades warning about the threat posed by powerful quantum encryption.

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That project came out of a desire that threads through a lot of my work: the urge to help people understand that systems they ...

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Hum by Helen Phillips, the story of a mother’s struggle to protect and nurture her small family in a broiling, near-future ...

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“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a ...

The new system, called Opus 4.8, tops industry standard benchmarks in areas related to computer programming. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI continue to ...