Solving quantum computing's longstanding 'no cloning' problem with an encryption workaround

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...
eWeek

Elon Musk Pushes Grok Beyond X With New Business, Enterprise AI Offerings

AI launches Grok Business and Grok Enterprise with Google Drive search, team controls, and a Vault add-on as Grok faces ...
Dark Reading

Flaw in Hacktivist Ransomware Lets Victims Decrypt Own Files

A ransomware variant favored by a pro-Russia hacktivist group is back on the scene with a new version that has a fatal flaw — it keeps artifacts that allow victims to decrypt their files. VolkLocker ...
The New York Times

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system. By Pranav Baskar For a group of ...
ABC News

Epstein files bill passes resoundingly in House with only 1 no vote

The bill will now head to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. After months of anticipation, the House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill ordering the release of the ...
Nextgov

Direct File won’t happen in 2026, IRS tells states

The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won’t be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to ...
decrypt

Nasdaq Files With SEC to Allow Trading of Tokenized Stocks

Nasdaq's proposal comes as interest in tokenization of assets surges throughout the financial services world. The exchange said that it believes tokenization can provide the same benefits and ...
9to5Mac

Apple’s stance on strong encryption gets the support of the FTC in US privacy U-turn

I describe the most recent events as surprising as you may recall that Apple was previously involved in a long-running battle with the FBI over compromising the security of iPhones. In addition to its ...
GitHub

[Parquet][Python] API to decrypt parquet file using one DEK and no metadata

I am having trouble decrypting a parquet file encrypted in the C++ Arrow library using PyArrow. In C++, I encrypt the file with one key and no metadata. However, I can't find an API in PyArrow to do ...
ZDNet

iPhone users may finally be able to send encrypted texts to Android friends with iOS 26

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

FunkSec Ransomware Victims Can Now Recover Files with Free Decryptor

A decryptor for the FunkSec ransomware has been developed and made avaliable to download for free by researchers at antivirus provider Avast. Ladislav Zezul, a malware researcher at Avast’s parent ...