Most of us have come across strange things whose purpose is a complete mystery. Sometimes we might stumble upon them at a ...
In 2020 XKCD, a popular online comic strip, published a cartoon depicting a teetering arrangement of blocks with the label: “all modern digital infrastructure”. Perched precariously at the bottom, ...
A woman who became interested in coding as a child developed her own secret code, but did it so thoroughly she couldn't translate her own writing years later. Ellie, 22 and from Oregon, told Newsweek ...
Microsoft Corp. confirmed late yesterday that some of the secret code underlying its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has been leaked on the Internet. The company played down any ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...
A DECADE AGO someone realised that the locks keeping swathes of the internet secure were not working. OpenSSL, a tool used to encrypt anything from social-media passwords to e-commerce purchases, had ...
The code, which uses JavaScript to turn any Web browser into a hacker's tool, was created as a demonstration of how JavaScript can be used to dodge security measures Software that could be used to ...
Roughly 15 percent of the "source code" for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 computer operating systems — code usually encrypted to keep it secret — has appeared on some Internet file-sharing ...