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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography.Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier quantum encryption schemes, which only work for a few special tasks, the new approach can accomplish a much wider range of tasks. And it could work even…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to a press release, MARA Holdings, Inc. now reports holdings valued at close to $6 billion, totaling 52,477 BTC. That level puts the miner among the largest public corporate Bitcoin holders, trailing only Michael Saylor’s Strategy in the public treasury rankings. Mining Output And Treasury Growth MARA produced a little over 700 BTC in August, and it kept an average pace of 22.7 BTC mined per day for the month. Bitcoin’s price fell about 5% during the period; prices peaked near $124,400 mid-month before slipping toward…

Development has steadily continued over the last month and a half as we approach the launch of Metropolis. Over a series of core dev calls over the last few months, we have specified and finalized the EIPs for Metropolis, and made the appropriate changes to the Yellow Paper. Metropolis has now been split up into two consecutive forks, named “Byzantium” and “Constantinople”. EIPs for Byzantium (Metropolis part one) are essentially finalized, and the last remaining work to be done has to do with writing tests and making sure that all clients are passing all tests. The Ethereum network continues to…

In 2025, the best airdrops come in many flavors: Layer 1 (Monad), Layer 2 (Linea), tap-to-earn (Sidekick, Midas), DePIN apps (Grass, Dawn), Game projects (B3, zkCandy), and testnets (Sahara, Hemi).With current on-chain data, Sidekick, Grass, B3, and Sahara have the largest user bases. Midas, Cytonic, and Vlayer are still in their early stages.Quick take:L1 (Monad), L2 (Linea), AI/DePIN (GRASS, DAWN, Sahara AI) raised the largest rounds (around $244 millions).Gaming and RWA are smaller in funding but have strong communities and higher airdrop potential.ProjectNarrative / CategoryFunding RaisedNotable Backers / InvestorsMonadLayer-1 (High performance, EVM-compatible)~$244MParadigm, DragonFly CapitalLineaLayer-2 (zkEVM scaling Ethereum)N/A (developed in-house by…

Poszt Unibet sportszemle – Mennyek Sportesemények F1 Alive japán GP napirendje Az F1 kezdeményezési dátuma: Mire megy ki a japán GP selejtező? Hogyan lehet megtekinteni, és élhet a stream -en A McLaren átadott illesztőprogram -csere kérés az F1 naplózási beszélgetésekben A legtöbb F1 japán GP győzelem Las Vegas F1 csata a 2025 -es elsődleges időbe költözött Nagy -Britanniában a közönség megtekintheti a legújabb Battle Live -t a Sky Sports – unibet sportszemle on, míg azok, akik az Egyesült Államokban dolgoznak, összekapcsolhatják az élményt az ESPN -vel. Bármely szokás valós idejű sugárzási lefedettsége, amely képesítéssel rendelkezik, és a 2023 -as F1…

The Biden administration considered spyware used to hack phones controversial enough that it was tightly restricted for US government use in an executive order signed in March 2024. In Trump’s no-holds-barred effort to empower his deportation force—already by far the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the US government—that’s about to change, and the result could be a powerful new form of domestic surveillance.Multiple tech and security companies—including Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Spycloud, and Zscaler—have confirmed customer information was stolen in a hack that originally targeted a chatbot system belonging to sales and revenue generation company Salesloft. The sprawling data…

Politics / September 5, 2025 The problem of gerontocracy includes the donor class. Ad Policy Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) poses with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on January 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kent Nishimura / Getty Images) Republican Senator Susan Collins is facing a tough reelection bid in Maine next year, but she has an ace up her sleeve: Hollywood Democrats who love her and are ready to fill up her election coffers. On August 19, The New York Times reported that Collins will be attending a fundraiser on her behalf on September 26…

Many attempts have been made to harness the power of new artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) to try to predict the outcomes of new chemical reactions. These have had limited success, in part because until now they have not been grounded in an understanding of fundamental physical principles, such as the laws of conservation of mass. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a way of incorporating these physical constraints on a reaction prediction model, and thus greatly improving the accuracy and reliability of its outputs.The new work was reported Aug. 20 in the…

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed’s messages are getting blocked more because its methods of blasting email are increasingly way more spammy than that of ActBlue, the fundraising platform for Democrats. Image: nypost.com On Aug.…