The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Computer hacker and former college student Matthew Lane — who was a teenager when he carried out a massive cyberattack on education technology company PowerSchool — was sentenced in federal court on ...

For quantum computers to change the game of computation, scientists need to show that the machines’ calculations are correct. Now, there’s hope. Google’s Willow quantum chip has achieved verifiable ...

The Russian state-backed Star Blizzard hacker group has ramped up operations with new, constantly evolving malware families (NoRobot, MaybeRobot) deployed in complex delivery chains that start with ...

19-year-old college student Matthew D. Lane, from Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for orchestrating a cyberattack on PowerSchool in December 2024 that resulted in a ...

When scammers planned their next gift card fraud meeting, they didn’t expect a hacker to show up. In this story, one man takes over their Google Meet, exposes all five participants, and leaves them ...

On Wednesday, Reddit filed a lawsuit against AI company Perplexity and three other companies alleging the AI company illegally scraped Reddit data through the use of data scraping companies based in ...

CLEVELAND — A sophisticated, multi-phase fraud known as the "phantom hacker" scam has cost Americans more than $1 billion since last year, according to the FBI. The scam begins with a pop-up, text ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) was predictably front and centre at Oracle’s revamped and rebranded customer event – which changed its name to AI World from Cloud World in a last-minute switch-up just a ...

DETROIT, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The team at Pack Hacker, the leading travel gear review site in the AllGear Digital active-lifestyle enthusiast media portfolio, has teamed up with the ...