How a carjacking in Connecticut led back to a man known as the crypto ‘Godfather’ in California

A California man known as the crypto “Godfather” has admitted to playing a key role in a botched Connecticut kidnapping ...
Scientific American

Microsoft’s new quantum computer chip has a fundamental problem

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its ...

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source ...

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.

Last spring, newly admitted students to San Jose State University received an unusual video message from the institution’s ...

This AI Startup’s Army Of 15,000 Hackers Pressure Test Claude, GPT-5 And Gemini

Gray Swan works with every major frontier AI lab. Now it’s raised $40 million as it expands to sell security tools to ...
Communications of the ACM

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...
Hackaday

Breaking Enigma With An FPGA, Just Like At Bletchly Park

The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the war. Given the last 80-odd years of ...
Science Daily

Transgender brains are more like their desired gender from an early age

New brain imaging research reveals that transgender adolescents show brain activity patterns more similar to their experienced gender than their assigned sex at birth. Using MRI scans and tests ...