The U.S. Department of Justice is alleging that the late Hawaii crime lord Michael J. Miske Jr. had fentanyl smuggled into prison so he could kill himself and stop the government from recouping more ...

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

The scenarios keeping AI bosses awake at night are no longer purely hypothetical. The tech is being used in hacking, scamming, weapons and sabotage.

US adversaries have developed more advanced biological weapons programs, without prompting much attention from US ...