Crypto was an alternative to the system. Now, it’s crashing with it.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Researchers said it was the first time a quantum computer “posed a real and substantial threat” to encryption, but multiple limitations still hamper a full-scale hack. Chinese researchers using a ...

Block (CRYPTO: SQ) co-founder Jack Dorsey voiced his concern about the power of algorithms to influence free will, suggesting that a marketplace of algorithms may help ameliorate the problem. What ...

Fabric Cryptography, a startup focused on hardware, has raised $33 million in a Series A fundraising round co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx. Other participating investors included Offchain Labs, ...

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence in recent years has magnified the accessibility of online information and expanded technological opportunities across a variety of industries. The most ...