If your iPhone underwent an update in May 2026, you might have noticed the word “encrypted” appearing at the top of some of your text threads. This actually isn’t an indication that anything has ...

SINGAPORE – Lim Meng Liang, 38, spends most of his time solving the impossible. As a specialist in Diophantine equations – notoriously complex mathematical problems famous for having no solutions – ...

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance. So one group of ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

In an interconnected world where data breaches and privacy concerns have become all too common, a prominent research entity in Japan is spearheading a transformation of the data security landscape.