AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots ...

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Algorithms guide us through the endless maze of the internet. Sometimes useful, sometimes distracting or confusing. This month, we dive into the bubble of Wiktoria Kaminska (21), a bachelor’s student ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Bubble sort is one of the simplest sorting algorithms to implement: it repeatedly goes through a collection, comparing adjacent elements and switching them if they are not in order, until the ...