Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 69th Birthday Today

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 69th birthday had he not passed away in 2011 at the age of 56. Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976 to produce the very first Apple computers, revolutionizing the personal computer and building up […]

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A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

This is a job for LLL: Give it (or its brethren) a basis of a multidimensional lattice, and it’ll spit out a better one. This process is known as lattice basis reduction. What does this all have to do with cryptography? It turns out that the task of breaking a cryptographic system can, in some […]

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