A bitcoin wallet worth $400,000 was locked for 11 years. Its owner finally guessed his password — thanks to AI

His forgetfulness has earned him a fortune as Bitcoin prices have gone up 20,000% in that time.

The Clever Trick Hackers Are Using to Break Into Signal Accounts

Posing as Signal's support team, scammers are asking users for their recovery keys—a ploy to download and decipher encrypted ...
Microsoft

The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence presents a comprehensive analysis of The Gentlemen, a Go-based ransomware deployed by ...

How Apple turned to math to defend against next-gen attacks on encryption

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it ...
Polygon

Best base building tips for Subnautica 2

Building a base in Subnautica 2 is an essential part of survival and something you'll have to start doing earlier than you might think. Bases are shelters, but also where you'll respawn if you die, ...
InfoWorld

The best new features in Python 3.15

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...
Windows Central

Microsoft Edge will load all your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says it's not a security concern

A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords. When you ...
The National Law Review

Dividing and Conquering- Best Method Obligations Follow Every Divisional Patent Application

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...
Ars Technica

Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...
Live Science

Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits — not the millions we assumed — to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms

Quantum computers don't need to be nearly as powerful as we thought to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms, scientists warn. New research claims that quantum computers can make widely ...
Ars Technica

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...
Harvard Business Review

What the Best AI Users Do Differently—and How to Level Up All of Your Employees

Organizations have moved quickly to put AI tools in the hands of their employees. But for all of this investment, many leaders struggle to assess how it’s going. Is AI measurably improving the quality ...