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I don't trust password generators, so I built my own. Here's how you can, too

Ready for the ultimate in password security? You can build your own uncrackable random generator; all you need is a ...
The New York Times

Videos Showing Aggressive ICE Tactics in Minnesota Fuel a Backlash

Clockwise from top left: Monica Bicking, via Storyful; Status Coup News, via Storyful; Brendan Gutenschwager, via Storyful; and Level Up with Gene and Jay, via Facebook. By Elena Shao, Arijeta Lajka, ...
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How I use AI to transform social media comments into blog posts that drive traffic

Last year I was in a discussion on Facebook about some of the techniques I've been using to help my travel blogs recover quickly from Google's HCU and other associated core updates. I shared a trick I ...
Wall Street Journal

China Developing Options to Threaten Taiwan With ‘Brute Force,’ Pentagon Says

China is making steady progress on developing more sophisticated weapons and expanding its armed force’s ability to operate away from the mainland, including against Taiwan, according to the ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
The Economist

Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners

HeLLFIRE MISSILES used to strike terrorist hideouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now they rain down on the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Small boats and their crews, alleged drug-traffickers, ...
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Good and Bad Crypto Algorithms Explained Simply

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, ...
C&EN

Symmetry-Constrained Monte Carlo for the Crystal Structure Prediction of Small Organic Molecules

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The prediction of crystal structures from the bare knowledge of molecular connectivity ...
CSOonline

Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups

SonicWall is warning admins that recent brute force attacks on its firewall’s API service for cloud backup could have exposed backup configuration files stored in its cloud portal. Affected are ...
Yahoo

Perspective: In the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, it’s time for a national conversation about algorithms

Charlie Kirk was cruelly murdered doing exactly what we all should be doing: in the words of Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, he was “disagreeing better.” Kirk was out there, digitally and physically, in the ...