UNTIL now, everything we have made has been stupid. This week, we are giving a circuit a brain. To do this, we will use a BBC micro:bit, a tiny entry-level ...

If you want to start an argument in certain circles, claim to have a random number generation algorithm. Turns out that producing real random numbers is hard, which is why people often turn to strange ...

To simulate chance occurrences, a computer can’t literally toss a coin or roll a die. Instead, it relies on special numerical recipes for generating strings of shuffled digits that pass for random ...

Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the ...