William Parks is a Game Rant editor specializing in puzzle-driven games, detailed walkthroughs, and collectible-focused strategy guides. After graduating from the University of Southern California’s ...

WHO, ME? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace ...

The danger in the code came from characters that are invisible to the human eye. In early March researchers at several security firms examined what looked like empty space and found hidden Unicode ...

The GlassWorm malware made news when it pivoted from exclusively targeting Windows users to also targeting Mac OS users in January, and in the time since, the malware campaign has spread across at ...

Glassworm uses a clever but dangerous technique. Attackers employ Unicode characters from the Private Use Area (PUA) that do not display on screen, yet contain actionable values.

I’d expect this to come in linters and formatters before becoming a language requirement. For example, converting a string to the explicit Unicode escape sequences or Python’s \N{UNICODE NAME} syntax ...

Abstract: Modern optical mouse sensors, with their advanced precision and high responsiveness, possess an often overlooked vulnerability: they can be exploited for side-channel attacks. This paper ...

A 1.98-square-micrometer QR code, etched into ceramic thin film and verified by Guinness, showcases a new approach to ultra-dense, long-term data storage. How small can a QR code actually be?