How to tweak your online platform algorithms

An easy way to do this is to go to Settings & privacy > Content preferences, and then open the “Unfollow people and groups” ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
Nasdaq

Google Achieves First Verifiable Quantum Advantage With Quantum Echoes Algorithm

(RTTNews) - Google (GOOG) announced a major quantum computing breakthrough with its newly developed Quantum Echoes algorithm, marking the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage, where a quantum ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
financefeeds

Good and Bad Crypto Algorithms Explained Simply

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
GitHub

Investigation: Did RFC 2094-NLL's DFS propagation for outlives in region infer algorithm ever get implemented in rustc?

We need to investigate whether the DFS propagation algorithm described in RFC 2094 was ever truly implemented in rustc's historical versions, rather than just being a prototype or design-stage concept ...
Wired

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...
BGR

Squid Game's Unnecessary Final Season Is Another Example Of Algorithms Trumping Art

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...
Quanta Magazine

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
Ars Technica

Windows 11’s most important new feature is post-quantum cryptography. Here’s why.

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand future attacks from quantum computers in a move aimed at jump-starting what’s likely to be the most ...