Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern ...

Two key trends are shaping the teaching of programming to the next generation of computing engineers at present. The first is ...