Masked ICE agents were involved in another terrifying confrontation in Minnesota, wrenching a random woman out of her car and arresting her while protesters cried to let her go. The standoff happened ...

With such a large collection of superheroes (is there a name for that? Herd of Heroes? Mega-Team?) either it's going to be really long or only a couple get more than a minute of screen time. Can't say ...

Lottery frenzy continues — just in time for the holiday season! Powerball reached $1 billion jackpot, and recently five Florida tickets from five drawings in less than a month got lucky. As they say ...

Abstract: Random number generation is essential for applications in simulation, numerical analysis, and data encryption. The ubiquitous presence of system-on-chip (SoC) field-programmable gate array ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, the Python random.seed() function produces identical random number generator (RNG) streams when seeded with positive and negative integers of the same ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

The foundation of the research lies in the principles of optical quantum randomness, where the probabilistic nature of photon detection at a beam splitter forms the core mechanism. Historically, ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

Abstract: This letter presents a fully digital true random number generator (TRNG) and noise generator (NG) based on a chaos system. We design the chaos random number generator (CRNG) using the ...

The 2025 Python Challenge removed a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Florida ecosystems. The winner, Taylor Stanberry, removed 60 Burmese pythons and took home a $10,000 prize. The 10-day ...