How to claim a WhatsApp username

For now, the username reservations are only available on the mobile versions of WhatsApp. If you keep your app updated, you ...

Security, Trust & Governance: Securing Software That Increasingly Writes Itself: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Application security has spent years maturing around a relatively stable assumption: a human ...

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every ...

WhatsApp is finally adding usernames — here's how to get yours right now

WhatsApp has introduced the option to add a unique username to your account. Here's how it works, and how to secure your own ...
InfoQ

Million PDFs: Building a Modern Document Infrastructure with Rust and Typst

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...
GitHub

WordPress settings framework for easily creating plugin and theme options pages. Includes 30+ field types such as AJAX relational fields, date pickers, and media uploaders.

Stop fighting the WordPress Settings API. This framework provides a modern, object-oriented, and fluent API that streamlines the creation of powerful and maintainable settings pages.
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How to generate random numbers, shuffle lists, and create test data in Excel

Most people treat Excel as a rigid calculator, completely missing its capacity for chaos. Excel's built-in randomization tools can generate numbers, shuffle existing lists, and build mock timelines in ...
IEEE

Impact of Random Phase Distribution on Ferroelectric Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors with Mitigation Strategies for Compute-In-Memory Applications

Abstract: This work presents, for the first time, an investigation of the impact of random phase distribution on ferroelectric (FE) tunnel field-effect transistors (FeTFETs). Due to localized ...
IEEE

On the Performance of OIRS-Aided VLC Systems with Random UE Orientation for Indoor Consumer IoT Applications: Analysis and Optimization

Abstract: This paper investigates an optical intelligent reflecting surface (OIRS) assisted indoor Visible Light Communication (VLC) system, considering the combined effects of random user equipment ...
The Hindu

Technique to ‘amplify’ random numbers is digital security breakthrough

Most digital security relies today on random numbers to generate cryptographic keys. Think of a cryptographic key like a long, complex password. If that password is truly random, an attacker has to ...
The New York Times

A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...