All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering "internal server error" messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Over the weekend, some people noticed that GPT-4o is routing requests to an unknown model out of nowhere. It turns out to be a "safety" feature. ChatGPT routes some conversations to different models ...

According to the report, China had access to a National Guard system for about nine months in 2024, from March through December. Authorities have not disclosed which state was affected. (Scripps News) ...

Finding the shortest path in a network is a classical problem, and a variety of search strategies have been proposed to solve it. In this paper, we review traditional approaches for finding shortest ...