Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...
Investopedia

What Is a Reference Number, and How Does It Work?

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Matthew Collins A reference number is a unique combination of letters and/or ...
InfoWorld

JDK 26: The new features in Java 26

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached its second release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

Understanding the Foundation: How LLMs Process Your Input

First of four parts Before we can understand how attackers exploit large language models, we need to understand how these models work. This first article in our four-part series on prompt injections ...
PC Magazine

I Set Up a Burner Phone Number. Here's Why (and How) You Should Too

One way to avoid this is to never hand out your personal phone number, except to close friends and family. There are a lot of good reasons for this. Perhaps you buy or sell items on Facebook ...