New biography of UChicago professor and alumna shines light on her contributions to cryptography and medieval scholarship ...

From ancient Egyptian tomb inscriptions to today’s quantum encryption, cryptography has been humanity’s shield for secrets. Across wars, political intrigue, and love letters, it has evolved from ...

Your guides to the weird side of the web feature Inq's cipher wheel and the history of cryptography. Audio of Indian oil tanker under Iranian fire in Hormuz: "Let me turn back" Did Hegseth quote fake ...

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide. Crucially, few companies ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an ...

Cipher Digital (CIFR) shares rose more than 6% on Tuesday despite reporting fourth-quarter results that missed Wall Street expectations and highlighted its shift away from bitcoin BTC $77,640.65 ...

Canaan (CAN) acquired Cipher Mining’s 49% stake in three West Texas mining projects for $39.75 million in shares, giving Cipher a significant equity stake in Canaan. Canaan (CAN) has acquired Cipher ...

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The updates introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, a security ...

For years, security teams treated ransomware as a technological problem. Security teams hardened backup systems, deployed endpoint detection, practiced incident response playbooks built around data ...

TeraWulf (WULF) and Cipher Mining (CIFR) are top crypto miners pivoting to AI and HPC workloads, securing major hyperscaler deals. Both TeraWulf and Cipher have landed multi-billion dollar contracts ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...