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

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AMD has officially confirmed a high-severity security vulnerability in its new Zen 5–based CPUs, and it’s a nasty one because it hits cryptography right at the source: the hardware random number ...

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Minecraft ticks can basically be explained as one cycle of the game's algorithm. Most computer games and software run in loops, and Minecraft has a set speed for how fast the loop will run. These ...

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Have you ever wondered how Java seamlessly combines its primitive data types with object-oriented programming? Enter wrapper classes, an important but often overlooked Java feature. These special ...

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers—and fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because it’s not “solvable” by hackers. Classical computers can’t be ...

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