Quantum cryptography pioneers win Turing Award for unhackable encryption breakthrough

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum ...

Trivy supply-chain attack spreads to Docker, GitHub repos

The TeamPCP hackers behind the Trivy supply-chain attack continued to target Aqua Security, pushing malicious Docker images ...

AppsFlyer Web SDK used to spread crypto stealer JavaScript code

Malicious JavaScript code delivered by the AppsFlyer Web SDK hijacked cryptocurrency, potentially in a supply-chain attack.
InfoQ

DoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels

DoorDash has launched a multimodal machine learning system that aligns product images, text, and user queries in a shared ...

Meta sabotaged Instagram's end-to-end encryption rollout to justify killing it

The 'Low Adoption' smoke screen ...

Scientists Harness 19th-Century Optics To Advance Quantum Encryption

A new quantum communication method uses the temporal Talbot effect to simplify high-dimensional quantum key distribution.
Hackaday

Slug Algorithm For On-GPU Rendering Of Fonts With Bézier Curves Now In Public Domain

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...

ThreatDown Uncovers First Cyber Attack Abusing Deno JavaScript Runtime for Fileless Malware Delivery

ThreatDown, the corporate business unit of Malwarebytes, today published research documenting what researchers believe to be the first documented case of attackers abusing the Deno JavaScript runtime ...
BBC

TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe. E2EE means only the sender and recipient of ...