Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

Google on Sunday announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed ...

As if it’s not bad enough that artificial intelligence is coming for your job—or at least making it worse—and the data centers fueling it are raising your utility bills and destroying your environment ...

Ripple announced a two-phase zero-knowledge privacy roadmap for XRPL in October 2025, targeting institutional adoption by mid-2026. Phase 1 enables private, compliant transactions using zero-knowledge ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say. Credit...Jeremy Leung Supported by By Aaron ...

The Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA) of Virginia has contracted a technology company for waste management, to divert refuse and expand the lifespan of its landfill — and to use AI to ...

A technician performing maintenance on servers in a data center, which MTN uses to manage satellite and terrestrial connectivity for enterprise customers. Credit: MTN TAMPA, Fla. — Florida-based ...

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people ...

Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S. Treasury has announced that it is providing Argentina with a $20 billion currency swap, essentially ...