Pioneering computer scientist who devised the Quicksort algorithm, ways of verifying programs and guards against hackers ...

How do we design assignments AI can’t complete? These are real questions. But they start in the wrong place. The deeper ...

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

Live games are experiencing a major surge in popularity and now attract nearly half of all online user engagement. According to the Global Games Market Report, the global live-streaming audience for ...

When Apple discovers trending popular emojis, or when Google reports traffic at a busy restaurant, they're analyzing large ...

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

Predatory groups have experienced exponential growth thanks to social media. Experts warn that it is now easier and cheaper ...

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern AI systems as a departure from traditional computing models: probabilistic ...

And even following very closely the technology sector, it is difficult to have a clear view of what can happen, with so many ...