Quantum cryptography pioneers win Turing Award for unhackable encryption breakthrough

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum ...

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible ...

AppsFlyer Web SDK used to spread crypto stealer JavaScript code

Malicious JavaScript code delivered by the AppsFlyer Web SDK hijacked cryptocurrency, potentially in a supply-chain attack.
InfoQ

DoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels

DoorDash has launched a multimodal machine learning system that aligns product images, text, and user queries in a shared ...

Meta sabotaged Instagram's end-to-end encryption rollout to justify killing it

The 'Low Adoption' smoke screen ...
Hackaday

Slug Algorithm For On-GPU Rendering Of Fonts With Bézier Curves Now In Public Domain

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with VS Code 1.112's New Image Analysis for Agents

VS Code 1.112 adds native image support for agents, and I used it on three Microsoft AI Foundry leaderboard screenshots to see whether it could turn chart-heavy visuals into a useful developer summary ...
Investopedia

NCAA NIL Rules: What Athletes Need to Know

College athletes now have more rights to their name, image, and likeness (NIL) Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit ...