The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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The Enforcement Directorate is raiding two online gaming firms – Winzo and Gamezkraft (pocket52.com) – that operate from Bengaluru and Delhi, respectively, after complaints of “manipulated algorithms” ...

American cybersecurity company SonicWall urged customers today to patch a high-severity SonicOS SSLVPN security flaw that can allow attackers to crash vulnerable firewalls. Tracked as CVE-2025-40601, ...

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Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...

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