Our favorite product releases this week: Lego, Kiehl’s, Shokz and more

It’s CES 2026 week! That means more product launches than anyone knows what to do with. But that’s exactly why you read CNN Underscored — we combed the web (and the Las Vegas showroom floor) to find ...
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Improved Linear Key Recovery Attacks on PRESENT

PRESENT is an ultra-lightweight block cipher designed by Bogdanov et al., and has been widely studied since its proposal. It supports 80-bit and 128-bit keys, which are referred to as PRESENT-80 and ...

Popular Pierce County cider maker down to 1 taproom. It once had over a dozen

These were all meant to be small neighborhood operations, and the financial math has changed so much,” the owner said.
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Uncertainty Analysis in Cryptographic Key Recovery for Machine Learning-Based Power Measurements Attacks

Abstract: The present work concerns side-channel attacks on cryptographic devices protected with the advanced encryption standard (AES). In this regard, the assessment of guessing entropy (GE) and the ...

Microsoft silently kills the last way to activate Windows without internet

Microsoft has unexpectedly removed the last remaining method for activating Windows without an internet connection.