Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

The COMPAS tool is widely used to assess a defendant’s risk of committing more crimes, but a new study puts its usefulness into perspective. In February 2013, Eric Loomis was found driving a car that ...

Facebook is the latest large tech company to begin mass layoffs, choosing 60 contractors reportedly at random using an algorithm. The unlucky contractors were employed by Meta via its Austin office of ...

NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has formally removed Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft guidance on random number generators. This is ...