We all keep secrets. Whether you are trying to protect messages to loved ones, company accounts or vital state intelligence, the technology that allows you peace of mind in our increasingly online ...

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims. Generative AI has enabled the production of child ...

DURHAM, N.C. — As generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have become increasingly prevalent in academic settings, faculty and students have been forced to adapt. As part of a new pilot ...

A mystery AI image editor named "nano banana" recently rose to the top of LMArena, the most popular AI leaderboard. The model easily bested its opponents in the arena, which lets users test AI models ...

The Tucson City Council in Arizona has unanimously voted to reject the Amazon-linked Project Blue data center. At a meeting on Wednesday, council members voted 7-0 to block the project proposed by ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...