One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Qiskit and Q# are major quantum programming languages from IBM and Microsoft, respectively, used for creating and testing ...

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern ...

Two key trends are shaping the teaching of programming to the next generation of computing engineers at present. The first is ...

Artificial intelligence, computer science graduates, US job market, tech hiring trends, entry-level software jobs, NACE salary survey, generative AI, white-collar jobpocalypse, Gen Z employment, ...

The modern consumer likes to believe they are decisive, rational, and self-directed. But if you have ever hesitated before clicking "buy now" because you did not want to "teach the algorithm" what you ...

A degree in computer science is as worthwhile as ever. There is, after all, a lot more to the field than just coding. The discipline covers many exciting topics, such as IT system design, security, ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...