In an effort to improve internet security, Cloudflare has revealed that it has installed a random number generating 'wave machine' in its Lisbon office. Chaos in Cloudflare's Lisbon office: securing ...

Edge compute and network firm Cloudflare has deployed a series of wave machines at its office in Portugal as a source of random number generation for its network encryption. In a blog post this week, ...

Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of doing anything ...

Cloudflare is one of those Internet companies you use all the time, but don’t usually know it. Big websites you visit use Cloudflare to shore up their defenses against denial of service attacks. The ...

Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest random-numbers generator systems that are ...

You sit back, hit spin, and watch the reels roll. There’s excitement, suspense, maybe even a little superstition. But behind every spin in real cash slots, there’s cold, hard math. Behind the curtain ...

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