AI coding benchmark MirrorCode published its full results June 26, showing Claude Opus 4.7 autonomously rebuilt a 60,000-line interpreter and scored 56% overall — completing tasks that take human ...

An agentic coding tool tasked with running a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that is ...

A range of AI-powered web browsers have been tricked into abandoning their safety guardrails and leaking user data after ...

Every two decades or so, a new technology upends national security. In the 1940s and 1950s, the atomic and hydrogen bombs established nuclear deterrence. In the 1970s and 1980s, microelectronics led ...

Modern algorithms would overpower World War II codes easily. In London’s Imperial War Museum, a team staged a curious experiment: they fed a modern AI the problem that haunted Alan Turing during the ...

Cybersecurity has been one of the fastest-moving tech sectors over the past few decades, rushing headlong from its beginnings as an almost niche IT bolt-on practice to becoming a mainstream enterprise ...

ISLAMABAD: An analysis of 231 million unique passwords leaked between 2023 and 2026 has revealed several alarming patterns, according to a report by cybersecurity company Kaspersky. Firstly, 68 per ...

An X user, Cprkrn, who posted on May 13, 2026, claimed that claude.ai just helped him crack the password to his old digital wallet. He tagged Anthropic and said he would name his kid after its CEO, ...

It’s World Password Day, and there’s really no better way to celebrate than with news that a majority of supposedly secure password hashes can be cracked with a single GPU in less than an hour, some ...

Because many password generators aren't as random as they seem, I built an improved one in Excel—and I'll show you exactly how you can, too. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the ...

The researchers estimate that Shor's algorithm could be implemented with as few as 10,000–20,000 atomic qubits. In one design they propose, a system with around 26,000 qubits could crack Bitcoin's ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...