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April 18, 2024

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Breakthrough Promises Secure Quantum Computing at Home

Apr. 11, 2024 — The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of ...

Protecting Art and Passwords With Biochemistry

Apr. 8, 2024 — A new molecular test method helps to prove the authenticity of works of art. The new method could also help to make passwords secure against quantum ...

100 Kilometers of Quantum-Encrypted Transfer

Apr. 2, 2024 — Researchers have taken a big step towards securing information against hacking. They have succeeded in using quantum encryption to securely transfer information 100 kilometers via fiber optic cable -- roughly equivalent to the distance between ...

Where Quantum Computers Can Score

Mar. 18, 2024 — The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a team has shown that a certain class of such problems can actually be solved better and much faster with quantum computers than with ...

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Satellites for Quantum Communications

Mar. 13, 2024 — Through steady advances in the development of quantum computers and their ever-improving performance, it will be possible in the future to crack our current encryption processes. To address this ...

A New Design for Quantum Computers

Feb. 15, 2024 — Creating a quantum computer powerful enough to tackle problems we cannot solve with current computers remains a big challenge for quantum physicists. A well-functioning quantum simulator -- a ...

Researchers Unveil New Way to Counter Mobile Phone 'Account Takeover' Attacks

Jan. 22, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where ...

Defending Your Voice Against Deepfakes

Nov. 27, 2023 — Computer scientists have developed AntiFake, a tool to protect voice recordings from unauthorized speech ...

Keep It Secret: Cloud Data Storage Security Approach Taps Quantum Physics

Nov. 14, 2023 — Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers, and a team is now merging quantum physics with mature cryptography and storage techniques to achieve a cost-effective cloud storage ...

Accelerating AI Tasks While Preserving Data Security

Oct. 30, 2023 — SecureLoop is a new search engine that can identify an optimal design for a deep neural network accelerator that preserves data security while improving energy efficiency and boosting performance. ...

Certain Online Games Use Dark Designs to Collect Player Data

Oct. 27, 2023 — The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new ...

New Study Unveils Stretchable High-Resolution User-Interactive Synesthesia Displays for Visual--Acoustic Encryption

Oct. 12, 2023 — A research team has succeeded in developing a cutting-edge display using transfer-printing techniques, propelling the field of multifunctional ...

Not Too Big: Machine Learning Tames Huge Data Sets

Sep. 11, 2023 — A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer's available memory by identifying a massive data set's key features and dividing them into manageable ...

Better Cybersecurity With New Material

Sep. 4, 2023 — Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption. The researchers behind the study believe ...

Pros and Cons of ChatGPT Plugin, Code Interpreter, in Education, Biology, Health

Aug. 25, 2023 — Researchers see potential in educational settings for the newest official ChatGPT plugin, called Code Interpreter, they've found limitations for its use by scientists who work with biological ...

How Randomized Data Can Improve Our Security

Aug. 9, 2023 — With an innovative approach, scientists are creating new standards for data security in the cache of electronic ...

Smart Devices: Putting a Premium on Peace of Mind

Aug. 7, 2023 — The White House has announced plans to roll out voluntary labeling for internet-connected devices like thermostats and baby monitors that meet certain cybersecurity standards. A new survey of U.S. ...

Why Computer Security Advice Is More Confusing Than It Should Be

July 25, 2023 — If you find the computer security guidelines you get at work confusing and not very useful, you're not alone. A new study highlights a key problem with how these guidelines are created, and ...

Solving Rare Disease Mysteries ... and Protecting Privacy

July 10, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a new way of linking personal records and protecting privacy. The first application is in identifying cases of rare genetic disorders. There are many other potential ...

Evaluating Cybersecurity Methods

June 28, 2023 — Researchers created a generic framework that enables an engineer or scientist to evaluate the effectiveness of defense schemes that seek to limit a hacker's ability to learn secret information ...

How Secure Are Voice Authentication Systems Really?

June 27, 2023 — Computer scientists have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six ...

'Toggle Switch' Can Help Quantum Computers Cut Through the Noise

June 26, 2023 — What good is a powerful computer if you can't read its output? Or readily reprogram it to do different jobs? People who design quantum computers face these challenges, and a new device may make ...

Quantum Computers Are Better at Guessing, New Study Demonstrates

June 5, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a quantum speedup over the most efficient classical computer algorithm possible for what is believed to be the first time. The accomplishment was performed on an IBM ...

Two Qudits Fully Entangled

Apr. 20, 2023 — Recently quantum computers started to work with more than just the zeros and ones we know from classical computers. Now a team demonstrates a way to efficiently create entanglement of such ...

Absolute Zero in the Quantum Computer

Apr. 4, 2023 — Absolute zero cannot be reached -- unless you have an infinite amount of energy or an infinite amount of time. Scientists in Vienna (Austria) studying the connection between thermodynamics and ...

Qubits Put New Spin on Magnetism: Boosting Applications of Quantum Computers

Mar. 17, 2023 — Research using a quantum computer as the physical platform for quantum experiments has found a way to design and characterize tailor-made magnetic objects using quantum bits, or qubits. That opens up ...

New Breakthrough Enables Perfectly Secure Digital Communications

Mar. 7, 2023 — Researchers have achieved a breakthrough to enable 'perfectly secure' hidden communications for the first time. The method uses new advances in information theory methods to conceal one ...

Are Our Pets Leaking Information About Us?

Feb. 27, 2023 — Pet and animal-related apps are creating cybersecurity risks to their owners, new research has ...

Securing Supply Chains With Quantum Computing

Feb. 14, 2023 — New research in quantum computing is moving science closer to being able to overcome supply-chain challenges and restore global security during future periods of ...

Chromo-Encryption Method Encodes Secrets With Color

Feb. 13, 2023 — In a new approach to security that unites technology and art, E researchers have combined silver nanostructures with polarized light to yield a range of brilliant colors, which can be used to encode ...

Quantum Physicists Make Major Nanoscopic Advance

Jan. 26, 2023 — In a new breakthrough, researchers have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now control two quantum light sources rather than one. Trivial as ...

Researchers Propose Methods for Automatic Detection of Doxing

Dec. 12, 2022 — A new automated approach to detect doxing -- a form of cyberbullying in which certain private or personally identifiable information is publicly shared without an individual's consent or ...

Quantum Algorithms Save Time in the Calculation of Electron Dynamics

Nov. 22, 2022 — Quantum computers promise significantly shorter computing times for complex problems. But there are still only a few quantum computers worldwide with a limited number of so-called qubits. However, ...

Microlaser Chip Adds New Dimensions to Quantum Communication

Nov. 21, 2022 — With only two levels of superposition, the qubits used in today's quantum communication technologies have limited storage space and low tolerance for interference. Engineering's ...