2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (385+ words) The estimated work needed for a key step in a future quantum attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum has fallen by more than half from a benchmark Google published in March. A paper shared with CoinDesk by researchers from the Ethereum…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (421+ words) Researchers working with AI coding agents reduced a resource benchmark for a key step in a potential quantum attack on the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and Ethereum by 86%, according to a paper posted Wednesday. In other words, they reduced the computing…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (357+ words) OpenAI says an unreleased, experimental AI system solved one of mathematics’ most famous unsolved problems after roughly 10,000 agents worked together for just 88 hours. The company published a proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (423+ words) Publicly traded tech company IonQ unveiled its Superion 256 quantum computer Tuesday, opening orders for a system it expects to deliver in 2027 as it works to expand production. The Maryland-based company builds quantum computers and offers access through cloud services. It…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (428+ words) Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says the rapid progress of artificial intelligence in advanced mathematics has gone far beyond what he once expected. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to AI systems producing and formally verifying complex mathematical proofs. In…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (260+ words) LayerZero introduced Akita on Sept. 9, a new polynomial commitment system designed to protect zero-knowledge proofs against potential attacks from quantum computers. Introducing Akita, the first production-ready, lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme for post-quantum security.It’s the first major step in making…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (232+ words) OpenAI’s core claim is straightforward but enormous in scope: its system solved a question mathematicians have chased since the 1930s. The company says it is releasing both a written proof and a formal Lean verification, presenting the work as evidence of…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (380+ words) Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are accelerating work to protect their networks from a future quantum computer capable of breaking the cryptography that guards crypto wallets, just as Washington starts putting serious money behind the machines that could one day do…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (301+ words) The Alby Bitcoin vulnerability centers on outdated builds of Alby Hub, the self-hosted node software that powers Lightning wallets and payment infrastructure for the platform’s users. Alby has acknowledged the issue directly, confirming that older versions of the software carry…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (365+ words) The Bitcoin Lightning software's maintainers say four image tags delivered unpatched binaries while reporting version v26.06.7 at startup, leaving affected users with another task: check the image digest and download a corrected image if it differs. Some Core Lightning operators who…...