Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

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 ...

Random number generation, or RNG, is the unseen engine that makes many video game features work, from loot drops to procedural levels. Figuring out how it works helps you understand why you never seem ...

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Abstract: In this brief we propose two pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) based on the discrete Arnold cat map (DACM) over the integer ring Z2m. The first PRNG employs or-exclusive (XOR) and bit ...

In brief, online slots operate via pseudo‑random number generators (PRNGs) that continuously cycle through vast sequences of numbers, selecting results only the moment you click “spin.” Each spin’s ...

Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

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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