AI is transforming how software engineers do their jobs. Just don’t call it ‘vibe-coding’

The AI industry is buzzing with chatbots that write code, a trend some call "vibe-coding." This approach lets AI handle ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Randomness Is Hard, SNMP Shouldn’t Be Public, And GitHub Malware Delivery

Randomness is hard. To be precise, without dedicated hardware, randomness is impossible for a computer. This is actually ...

Quantum random number generator combines small size and high speed

Researchers have developed a chip-based quantum random number generator that provides high-speed, high-quality operation on a ...
Communications of the ACM

Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply-Chain Security

An open source software supply-chain vulnerability is an exploitable weakness in trusted software caused by a third-party, ...
Daily Mail

They look like random numbers but America's most uncrackable code is worth $60M: Inside the wild treasure hunt

America's greatest unsolved code leads to a $60million treasure - but no one has been able to crack it for 180 years. The mystery of the Beale ciphers begins in 1885, when a small pamphlet with three ...
IEEE

Random Coordinate Descent for Resource Allocation in Open Multiagent Systems

Abstract: We propose a method for analyzing the distributed random coordinate descent algorithm for solving separable resource allocation problems in the context of an open multiagent system, where ...
NPR

You can trust the jobs report, Labor Department workers urge public

With a new, sobering jobs report out Friday, some current employees at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are seeking to reassure the American public that the government's ...
PBS

U.S. hiring stalls with just 22,000 jobs added in August

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month as the labor market continued to cool amid uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. Hiring decelerated from ...
Phys.org

Mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random, study suggests

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...
PBS

Pentagon authorizes military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The ...
Torque News

2025 Toyota Tacoma Owner Finds a Secret on His Truck, Says, “I Just Found A Hidden QR Code with a Random Discount on Accessories, Mine Was 40%”

A 2025 Toyota Tacoma owner discovered a hidden secret in his new 4th-generation Tacoma. Here's what all Tacoma owners will want to know about this owner's discovery. Munoz Gabo on the 4th Generation ...
IEEE

Spatially-Coupled Constant-Weight Code for Random Access in Fast Fading Channels

Abstract: In this letter, we propose a novel signature code, spatially-coupled (SC) constant-weight (CW) code, for random access in fast fading channels. Concretely, first, the spatial coupling base ...