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January 26, 2022

Wordle has been hacked – but that’s not going to ruin the fun

John Dixon, University of Hull

This deceptively simple online word guessing game has captured the English-speaking world.

September 30, 2020

Brianna O'Shea, Edith Cowan University and Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University

The outdated Microsoft operating system was recently dumped online in a huge leak. Hackers can now scour it for bugs to exploit.

June 25, 2015

John R. Woodward, University of Stirling; Justyna Petke, UCL, and William Langdon, UCL

Machines are not very good at writing software from scratch, but they’re getting pretty good at improving on human efforts.

John R. Woodward
Lecturer in Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
John Dixon
Lecturer, Computer Science, University of Hull
Justyna Petke
Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing, UCL
William Langdon
Principal Research Associate, UCL
Paul Haskell-Dowland
Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
Brianna O'Shea
Lecturer, Ethical Hacking and Defense, Edith Cowan University