NumPy 2.5 eig returns complex numbers even for real matrices—the release note's workaround loses the imaginary part

The NumPy 2.5.0 release notes state that the return values of eig and eigvals will always be complex, and that ...

[10/17 AI News] Claude solves the origin of the 'seed' for the ECDSA cryptographic standard - Less than 30 minutes, the conclusion is reassuring

The top story this morning is Anthropic's report that Claude solved the origin of the 'seed' attached to the curves of the ...
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Claude cracks 25-year cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes: NIST curve seeds traced to timestamps and a random number generator

Anthropic announced on October 16 that its AI model Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery in under half an hour, tracing the origin ...
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Attackers Target Rejetto HFS Flaw That Enables Admin Session Forgery and RCE

Rejetto HFS CVE-2026-61500 faces exploitation attempts after a public PoC showed forged admin sessions can lead to remote code execution.
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Doing Random Acts of Kindness Is Good for You

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Coldcard’s RNG flaw is still draining wallets, and an AI audit just found 85 more critical bugs across Bitcoin

A five-year firmware error turned Coldcard into the largest known Bitcoin seed-theft, while AI-assisted analysis of the broader ecosystem is surfacing how ...
crypto

A build error in Coldcard’s firmware drained $38 million in bitcoin in 25 minutes

Coinkite says an attacker used AI to find a flaw its own AI review missed, exposing 500 wallets to a seed generation bug that reduced 128 bits of entropy to 40. The attack took 25 minutes. At 2:14 a.m ...
techxplore

Researchers propose light-driven random number generator for image security

While security systems based on pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) have been developed to secure information use, they produce sequences that are not truly random and suffer from inherent ...
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Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen. We load a CodeGen model from Hugging Face, prepare it for code generation, and use it to generate Python functions from ...
howtogeek

How to generate random numbers, shuffle lists, and create test data in Excel

Tony Phillips is an experienced Microsoft Office user with a dual-honors degree in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies. Prior to starting with How-to Geek in January 2024, he worked as a document ...
nytimes.com

A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...
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Scientists create perfectly random numbers using entangled quantum chips for first time

Two quantum chips linked through a 30-meter cooled tube enabled scientists to create certified perfectly random numbers.ETH Zurich Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method to generate what ...