How stablecoins work: fiat-backed, crypto-collateralized, and algorithmic models. Covers USDT, USDC, DAI, and peg mechanisms.

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

In February, a research team published a new architecture showing that RSA-2048, the encryption standard underpinning most of the internet’s security, could be broken with fewer than 100,000 physical ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...

Your Email is Encrypted Today, but Will It Hold Up Tomorrow? Awakening one day to discover that every “secure email” you’ve ever written was not secure at all. Your client contracts, financial ...

​For much of the past decade, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) lived primarily in academic journals and standards committees.

The encryption protecting global banking, government communications, and digital identity does not fail when a quantum computer is finally built. It fails the moment adversaries acquire enough quantum ...

Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s ...

Affiliate and former BKC Fellow Dylan Moses asks how far the "potential" to invoke violence or harm can take us in regulating online prank content. Moses writes that aggressive and confrontational ...

Robo-umps have arrived. Kinda. Beginning this season, Major League Baseball will use the ABS (short for automated balls and strikes) challenge system, so it's not full robo-umps, but there is now a ...