Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off. Database breaches, phishing scams and emerging artificial intelligence tools…
Industrial defenses have improved; so have attacks In practice, most large industrial facilities are moving to secure their own internal factory networks using technologies such as SD-WAN, private 5G networks, network segregation, isolation of production…
Scientists have found a way to make AI much better at predicting complex, chaotic systems by tapping into the unique power of quantum computing. Credit: Shutterstock Quantum computing is giving AI a major boost in…
In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has developed an asymmetrical naval strategy that is crippling the passage of container ships. This “hemostat” uses guerrilla tactics, after Iran’s “traditional” fleet was almost entirely destroyed by US…
Announcing the initiative on X, Sam Altman, CEO at OpenAI, said, “OpenAI is launching Daybreak, our effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. AI is already good and about to get super good at…
Artistic view of a nanorobot (center and inset) interacting with several bacteria of two distinct types. The dashed arrows indicate the attractive thermophoretic force exerted by the nanorobot on the bacteria in the vicinity while…
A 532-nm continuous-wave laser “sculpted” microscopic patterns onto a flake of As2S3, including a monochromatic portrait of Albert Einstein (700-nm point spacing) and a QR-code-like design (600-nm point spacing). Credit: XPANCEO A team of scientists…
Cover illustration of the journal Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry), selected as the front cover for the issue featuring this research (Sun et al., 2026). Credit: Cover artwork by Yutaka Majima. Courtesy of the Royal…
Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday after Canvas went…
Ultrathin 2D materials have long been seen as the key to pushing computer chips beyond current limits. But new research reveals a subtle, often overlooked factor that can quietly undermine their performance and reshape which…
