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The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

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We investigate three of 2024’s biggest breakthroughs in mathematics, including a better way to pack spheres in high dimensions, a new way to avoid forming patterns of numbers, and an 800-page proof of ...