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Dr. Elena Marchetti
Dr. Elena Marchetti writes about cryptography and the math that underpins it: hash functions, collision attacks, and why algorithms age out of trust. She has a research background in applied cryptography and tests a claim before explaining it.
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FBI Arrests ShinyHunters Suspect, Files 0 Charges [2026]
The FBI announced on Friday, October 9, 2026, that agents arrested another suspected co-conspirator tied to the ShinyHunters extortion group, the crew…
ATMOSFAR Early Access Lands Oct. 29, Runs 9 Months [2026]
Apog Labs and publisher Shueisha Games have set October 29, 2026 as the Early Access launch date for ATMOSFAR, a cooperative survival…
Tears of Themis Pity Odds: 1% Rate, $273 Hard Cap [2026]
Short answer: a featured SSR card in Tears of Themis has a flat 1% chance per draw, with no soft-pity ramp and…
IDC Frontier Ransomware Hits IDCF Cloud, 495 Orgs [2026]
A ransomware attack has knocked out a major piece of Japan’s cloud infrastructure, and the fallout is hitting government offices along with…
Google vs Anthropic: AI Markets Split 43%-41% [2026]
Betting markets can’t agree on who’s winning the AI race. On October 7, 2026, a Polymarket listing for “Which company has best…
CS2 Ranks in Order: Build a Tracker in 12 Steps [2026]
Type “cs2 ranks in order” into Google and you get a dozen pages with the same static list and a banner ad…
AES-CTR vs AES-GCM: 2.23 vs 0.17 Cycles/Byte [2026]
Pick the wrong AES mode and you don’t get a slow app. You get a cipher that happily decrypts ciphertext an attacker…
BLAKE3 vs BLAKE2: 4x Faster, 140 GiB/s [2026]
Cryptographic hashing has two live generations fighting for the same job today. BLAKE2, standardized in IETF RFC 7693 back in 2012, still…
GPT-6 Lands in ChatGPT: Intelligent UI Hits 4 Tiers [2026]
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 inside ChatGPT on October 7, 2026, and paired it with a feature the company calls Intelligent UI.…
Fake AI Ad Portals Hit 6 Chatbots, Steal MFA Codes [2026]
A phishing operation uncovered this week is not bothering to impersonate a bank or a shipping company. It is impersonating the AI…
