The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

According to an internal company memo obtained by NPR, the Chinese-owned company has signed a deal to form a new  joint venture to run the app in the U.S.

Ling, A. and Pandya, N. (2025) Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing: A Pedagogical Introduction to Emerging Quantum ...

C compiler, LustreC, into a generator of both executable code and associated specification. Model-based design tools are ...

The free software community has always thwarted the toughest challenges facing freedom in technology. This winter season, we want to thank the many individuals and projects that have helped us get ...

New York's law requiring companies to disclose when prices are set by algorithms was upheld in court. The law is meant to ...

As algorithms become more widespread within government institutions, there are two basic challenges. One is to design better ...

For all 4 algorithms, more balanced classes (multiplier: 0.93-0.96 for a 1% increase in minority class proportion) were associated with decreased sample size. Other characteristics varied in ...

In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It was governed by deep-rooted social principles that ensured lively, inclusive ...

medicalcoder is a lightweight, base-R package for working with ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes. It provides fast, dependency-free tools to look up, validate, and manipulate ICD codes, ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a two-stage soft-decision decoding (SDD) algorithm for BCH codes. At the first stage, we search for test error patterns (TEPs ...