Policy & Standards
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IEEE Spectrum published an article examining the use of social engineering techniques for constructive purposes.
Mon, 25 May 2026 13:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/social-engineering-good
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MathWorks hosted a webinar on end-to-end AI workflows for designing, training, validating, and deploying virtual sensor models using model-based design.
Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/ai-with-model-based-design-virtual-sensor-modeling/
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IEEE announced a verification program for mobile applications used by patients to manage medical conditions.
Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/medical-mobile-app-ieee-verified
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A sponsored article described an approach to physical AI development centered on human-robot interfaces.
Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:02 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/wetour-robotics-physical-ai-human-interfaces
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ZEISS hosted a webinar on the Crossbeam 750 FIBSEM for TEM lamella preparation, tomography, and nanofabrication in semiconductor failure analysis.
Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:02 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://events.bizzabo.com/868497/home
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IEEE Spectrum published an article examining whether robotics will experience a large-scale AI breakthrough comparable to those seen in language models.
Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics-ai-breakthrough
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IEEE designated Manchester Code, a clock-embedded binary encoding developed in the late 1940s, as an IEEE Milestone.
Mon, 18 May 2026 18:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/manchester-code-ieee-milestone
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IEEE Spectrum published an analysis of how the categories dull, dirty, and dangerous are defined and applied to robotic task assignment.
Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/dull-dirty-dangerous-robots
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Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory presented research on agentic AI architectures for collaborative robotic teams.
Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://events.bizzabo.com/867156
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A sponsored article describes Melbourne's data center expansion as a contributor to AI and research computing capacity in the region.
Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/melbourne-ai-data-center-innovation
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IEEE Spectrum published newly available photographs of the first atomic bomb test conducted at Trinity in 1945.
Fri, 15 May 2026 13:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
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The IEEE Communications Society operates structured pitch sessions connecting researchers with potential corporate backers.
Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:02 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-society-pitch-sessions
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A technical review describes how spectrum congestion, dynamic sharing, and cognitive radio systems are reshaping RF coexistence testing requirements.
Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/testing-for-coexistence-in-crowded-and-contested-rf-environments/
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A sponsored article describes Applied Materials' EPIC Center facility as targeting chipmaking innovation for energy-efficient AI applications.
Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/applied-materials-epic-center
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An IEEE program uses 5G and 6G innovation testbeds to work toward extending internet connectivity to populations currently without access.
Tue, 12 May 2026 18:00:02 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-connect-the-unconnected
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A sponsored article presents battery module solutions for managing power demands of large-scale AI training workloads.
Tue, 12 May 2026 17:15:15 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/gigascale-ai-datacenter-power
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A guide explains error vector magnitude as the primary metric for quantifying modulation accuracy in Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G systems.
Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/understanding-evm-error-vector-magnitude-in-modern-wireless-communications/
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IEEE Spectrum profiled Ana Ines Inacio, recipient of an IEEE Outstanding Young Professional award, for her work in wireless communications design.
Fri, 08 May 2026 18:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/ana-ines-inacio-wireless
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Communities in Sardinia have opposed renewable energy installations, citing cultural and historical ties to affected landscapes.
Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/sardinia-renewable-energy-conflict
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IEEE published a guide describing the skills and career path required to practice as a cybersecurity consultant.
Wed, 06 May 2026 18:00:01 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-guide-cybersecurity-consultant
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A guide identifies ten technology components, including THz communications, AI/ML integration, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, as candidates for defining 6G wireless.
Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:02 +0000 · IEEE Spectrum · https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/ten-key-enablers-for-6g-wireless-communications/
Research
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Researchers formally defined public verifiability of tokens in group signatures with message-dependent opening and verified that three existing schemes satisfy the definition.
Sat, 23 May 2026 01:34:24 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1037
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Researchers transformed the computation of asymptotic bounds for the Automated Coppersmith method into a linear programming problem and obtained improved bounds for five cryptanalytic settings.
Fri, 22 May 2026 06:27:20 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1027
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Researchers formalized strong resettable zero-knowledge, demonstrated witness-recovery attacks against Fiat-Shamir-compiled NIZK constructions, and presented a compiler providing resettable security with negligible overhead.
Fri, 22 May 2026 23:14:18 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1036
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Researchers published a systematization of knowledge covering theoretical and practical security of Rijndael-256, including implementations using vectorized AES-NI.
Fri, 22 May 2026 21:19:59 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1035
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Researchers implemented Vistrutah on a Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA, achieving 211.57 Gbps at 826.44 MHz with lower power consumption and fewer resources than the WAES-256 baseline.
Fri, 22 May 2026 18:42:25 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1034
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Researchers introduced QUILT, a multi-client functional encryption construction for noisy quadratic functions achieving a 4.8x to 6.8x speedup over comparable schemes in private logistic regression training.
Fri, 22 May 2026 16:48:07 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1033
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Researchers identified a defect in wolfSSL's memory-optimized ML-DSA path where omitted post-matrix-multiplication reductions cause arithmetic overflow and signing failure while passing existing known-answer tests.
Fri, 22 May 2026 13:50:19 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1032
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Researchers reduced the fixed-precision memory requirements of SQIsign by approximately 75% across NIST security levels I, III, and V, with signing performance improvements up to 67%.
Fri, 22 May 2026 11:48:23 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1031
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Researchers introduced a pushforward oracle framework for isogeny recovery and demonstrated practical attacks against a threshold signature scheme and weak instances in an oblivious pseudorandom function.
Fri, 22 May 2026 10:59:43 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1030
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Researchers presented a unified zero-knowledge proof framework for TCitH-based NIST post-quantum signature submissions achieving up to 99% reduction in stack usage on Cortex-M4 devices.
Fri, 22 May 2026 09:43:00 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1029
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Researchers developed a framework for collusion-resistant asymmetric anamorphic encryption and provided direct instantiations for ElGamal, Regev, and Paillier without relying on indistinguishability obfuscation.
Fri, 22 May 2026 07:11:56 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1028
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Researchers proposed a sparse trigonometric Hermite interpolation method for discrete-CKKS functional bootstrapping that improves noise reduction with efficiency comparable to prior methods, implemented in OpenFHE.
Fri, 22 May 2026 03:31:12 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1026
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Researchers presented a geometric critical point screening method for neural network model extraction that reduces query cost to 3.2% and 0.1% of prior approaches for first and second hidden layer neurons.
Fri, 22 May 2026 03:20:08 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1025
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Researchers constructed families of Proofs of Space and Memory-Hard Functions demonstrating that algorithms treating random oracle outputs as bit strings can be significantly more efficient than pebbling-model algorithms.
Thu, 21 May 2026 22:09:56 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1024
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Researchers exploited slot repetition patterns in sparse CKKS packing to achieve 3.53x to 7.95x faster linear transforms and 1.71x to 5.28x overall bootstrapping speedup in OpenFHE.
Thu, 21 May 2026 16:07:28 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1023
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Researchers presented a quantum algorithm for Discrete Gaussian Sampling on lattices that is asymptotically quadratically faster than classical methods, yielding two improved quantum dual attacks on lattice problems.
Mon, 18 May 2026 09:43:05 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/984
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Researchers formalized the cryptographic core of the FLEX and FLEX2 payment protocols, proving on-chain enforceability, CDS secrecy, soundness, and universal composability under standard assumptions.
Mon, 18 May 2026 09:41:41 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/983
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Researchers proposed a zero-shot deep-unfolding decoder for QC-MDPC McEliece cryptosystems that uses weight homogenization to transfer learned weights across code sizes without retraining.
Mon, 18 May 2026 09:03:08 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/982
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Researchers proposed a profiling-device-free side-channel analysis framework for ML-KEM that uses adversarial unsupervised domain adaptation to recover secret keys without access to a matching target device.
Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:49 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/981
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Researchers presented the first key-independent secret-key distinguisher for 7-round AES, constructed from a joint generalized zero-difference property and requiring complexity 2^126.2 with a success probability of approximately 77.8%.
Mon, 18 May 2026 07:05:36 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/980
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Researchers applied quantum rejection sampling to the dual lattice attack framework, reducing estimated attack costs against Kyber-512, Kyber-768, and Kyber-1024 by 9, 4, and 13 bits respectively compared to the Pouly-Shen baseline.
Mon, 18 May 2026 03:25:54 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/979
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Researchers presented TLAssist, an LLM-assisted tool for semi-automated TLA+ specification of Byzantine reliable broadcast protocols, and identified a totality violation in a CCS 2025 distinguished paper protocol.
Mon, 18 May 2026 02:09:47 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/978
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Researchers described a configuration parsing methodology for extracting TLS cryptographic posture across enterprise web servers and demonstrated MLKEM and hybrid MLKEM key exchange deployment at a financial institution with no application-layer changes.
2026-05-18T07:10:15Z · arXiv · http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17955v1
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Researchers presented LoTRS, a lattice-based structured threshold ring signature scheme combining a two-round multisignature layer with a one-out-of-N proof, producing 36 KB signatures for ring size N=100 and threshold T=50.
Sun, 17 May 2026 12:13:59 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/974
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Researchers presented ThriftyMPC, a framework combining secure multi-party computation with preemption-tolerant execution on spot cloud instances to reduce the cost of privacy-preserving computation on sensitive data.
Sun, 17 May 2026 22:12:43 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/977
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Researchers identified parameter issues in the DKLs threshold ECDSA VOLE sub-protocol and introduced an optimized two-party signing protocol whose online phase requires each party to exchange only 0.2 KB.
Sun, 17 May 2026 20:30:43 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/976
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Researchers presented a BFV-based functional bootstrapping algorithm for arbitrary functions with O(1) polynomial multiplication cost per single LWE ciphertext, implemented in Lattigo at 128-bit security in 3.15 seconds for 9-bit plaintexts.
Sun, 17 May 2026 16:06:06 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/975
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Researchers derived analytic bounds for Shamir secret sharing based threshold FHE that reduce the modulus overhead for distributed decryption by up to 90% for threshold values close to the party count n.
Sat, 16 May 2026 23:33:49 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/973
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Researchers presented a combined combinatorial and algebraic attack that recovers equivalent secret keys for Enhanced Gabidulin Matrix Code encryption, breaking all 16 proposed parameter sets and reducing the claimed 128-bit set to 35 bits of security.
Sat, 16 May 2026 21:45:37 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/972
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Researchers derived explicit operation counts for Toom-4 polynomial multiplication in the incomplete NTT framework for lattice-based cryptography and identified parameter ranges where Toom-4 outperforms Karatsuba.
Sat, 16 May 2026 07:18:46 +0000 · IACR · https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/971