Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, ...

This repository provides a complete, robust, and strongly-typed Ada 2023 (ISO/IEC 8652:2023) implementation of the NTRUEncrypt public-key cryptosystem. Operating over the truncated polynomial ring ...

Recommendation algorithms promise social media users a personalized experience, but some experts worry they promote doomscrolling, brain rot, and myriad mental health problems. Australia recently ...

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Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content, according to a recent post from Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Specifically, Mosseri was showing off new ways that users might access Your ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

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The Qilin ransomware group has once again dominated the cyberthreat landscape in July 2025, claiming 73 victims and accounting for 17% of the month’s total ransomware incidents. This marks the third ...

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Almost half a dozen organizations have already been compromised by the novel AiLock ransomware-as-a-service operation, which exhibits sophisticated file encryption and system infiltration techniques, ...

The cybersecurity landscape has witnessed the emergence of AiLock, a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) threat first uncovered in March 2025. Initially brought to light by security firm Zscaler, ...