Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Since August 2025, KadNap has grown to ...

Abstract: Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) are pivotal in numerous high-impact key-value applications built on distributed networked systems, offering a decentralized architecture that avoids single ...

BitTorrent is a very scalable file sharing protocol that utilizes the upload bandwidth of peers to offload the original content source. With BitTorrent, each file is split into many small pieces, each ...

Hash tables are one of the oldest and simplest data structures for storing elements and supporting deletions and queries. Invented in 1953, they underly most computational systems. Yet despite their ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - As the federal government shutdown continues, Mississippi families who depend on SNAP benefits are left without a safety net. One nonprofit is stepping up to fill the gap.

Key-value data management across distributed computing systems plays a crucial role in supporting large-scale Internet applications, including the emerging area of large language model (LLM) serving ...

BitTorrent Inc. unveils BTFS Protocol v4.0 Beta, introducing key upgrades like Storage Providers, enhanced metadata management, and distributed governance to improve decentralization. BitTorrent Inc.

A decentralized, peer-to-peer storage system that prioritizes scalability, availability, and security. This platform breaks large files into encrypted blocks, distributes them across peer nodes, and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.