HOUSTON – (Sept. 3, 2025) – Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data inherently “noisy.” Rice University computer scientists ...

Two years after the debut of its Quantum Safe Programme (QSP), Microsoft is moving steadily through the process of incorporating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms into some of the ...

While the dawn of quantum computing may still be years away, federal agencies are facing a future threat that has already arrived. Adversaries are actively stealing encrypted government information ...

When Lisa Yoder’s kids want to watch a movie, they look through the family’s DVD library or head to the library and pick DVDs to borrow. Yoder’s favorite part about letting her kids watch DVDs is that ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

Mark Cuban said Sunday that President Donald Trump's allies are outmaneuvering Democrats online because they better understand how engagement algorithms work. What Happened: "This is how the trump ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Plus: the US has paused technology export restrictions to China This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology ...