Fault-tolerant quantum computing: Novel protocol efficiently reduces resource cost

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

The Geometric Code: Genome’s 3D Shape Functions as the Living Computer that Enabled Complex Life

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?
Ars Technica

Claude Code gets a web version—but it’s the new sandboxing that really matters

Anthropic has added web and mobile interfaces for Claude Code, its immensely popular command-line interface (CLI) agentic AI coding tool. The web interface appears to be well-baked at launch, but the ...
TechCrunch

Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had ‘long-term’ access to its systems, stole code and customer data

Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks says government-backed hackers had “long-term, persistent access” to its network, which allowed them to steal the company’s source code and customer information. In a ...
The Conversation

The world’s most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...
GeekWire

Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...
Education Week

AI Can Generate Code. Is That a Threat to Computer Science Education?

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...
The New York Times

Ex-Employee Sentenced to 4 Years for Sabotaging Company’s Computer Network

The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said. By Hannah Ziegler A former software developer ...