From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

A paper co-authored by Prof. Alex Lew has been selected as one of four "Outstanding Papers" at this year's Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025), held in Montreal in October.

Ethereum devs launch Secret Santa protocol using zero-knowledge proofs to pioneer on-chain privacy and future-proof blockchain anonymity.

Ramy Shelbaya – co-founder and chief executive of UK firm Quantum Dice – talks to Anna Demming about how the company is using quantum mechanics to generate random numbers, and the challenges and ...

MIPCOM Director Lucy Smith this morning called this week’s TV industry event “the biggest shift in a generation,” as she announced attendance numbers and plans for MIP London in 2026. Smith said “just ...

Abstract: Pseudo-random numbers generator (PRNG), as the core foundation of modern information science, has irreplaceable strategic value in the fields of cryptography and communication security. This ...

Iowa State Cyclones quarterback Rocco Becht during the football team’s media day at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, on Friday, July 25, 2025. Becht, a redshirt junior, threw for 3,505 yards and 25 ...

Trust, but verify: Random number generation is a serious matter in modern computing. Most systems rely on a purely hardware-based approach to RNG, but the process is essentially impossible to verify ...

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