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I made a widget for my iPhone home screen that displays a random Pokémon!The design is inspired by the selection screen from ...

On Tuesday, OpenAI continued its all-out assault on mathematicians’ peace of mind and sense of career stability by releasing 377 new math results in the form of an info-dump on GitHub. What kinds of ...

AI-assisted research uncovered a critical Rejetto HFS flaw that enables auth bypass and remote code execution, now exploited in the wild.

A critical security flaw impacting Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) is witnessing active exploitation attempts, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score: 9.3), ...

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On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...

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If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Randomness in programming can feel paradoxical. You want unpredictability, but you also need it to be controlled and reproducible. In Java, the Math.random() method provides a straightforward way to ...