Bitcoin mining activity has taken its biggest hit since late 2021 after a severe winter storm in the United States forced several large mining firms to curtail operations, triggering a sharp drop in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. You've probably spotted the Minecraft smithing table recipe in your crafting table, but it's not obvious what it's used for, or whether it's even ...

Bitcoin miners offer a glimpse into potential price upside to come as the historically accurate Hash Ribbons flips green. A historically accurate Bitcoin price metric is flashing green for the third ...

Cracking the Codes: A new Hive Systems Password Table update highlights a growing concern: modern GPUs can crack hashed passwords faster than ever. As hardware improves, short or simple credentials ...

A Windows vulnerability that exposes NTLM hashes using .library-ms files is now actively exploited by hackers in phishing campaigns targeting government entities and private companies. The flaw ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Abstract: Chord DHT (Distributed Hash Table) is a robust solution to a basic problem encountered in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications: efficiently locating the node that stores specific data items. In ...

After looking at the recent GoLang update for curiosity, I noticed one standout item. GoLang now uses Swiss Tables for mapping. I'd not heard of this algorithm, so it took a bit of searching to come ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...