Almost everybody has a junk drawer — home to random cables, screws, oversized spoons, matchboxes, and foreign currency coins. It's where you put things that just don't belong anywhere else, either ...

This story was updated to add more information. RANDOM LAKE – More than 100 employees will be laid off at a printing facility planning to close next year. Sheridan Random Lake, 100 Industrial Drive, ...

The odds are not in your favor when it comes to winning the Powerball’s staggering $1.3 billion jackpot on Wednesday night, but there are a few things you can to tip the scales ever-so-slightly in ...

Nearly 300 Burmese pythons were removed during a record-setting Florida Python Challenge this year, state wildlife officials said. The 10-day competition that ran from July 11-20 resulted in a record ...

A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. Dubbed CURBy, ...

If your name gets picked for jury duty, it’s because a computer used a random number generator to select it. The same goes for tax audits or when you opt for a quick pick lottery ticket. But how can ...

The outcome of quantum experiments is intrinsically unpredictable. Now physicists have combined that feature with blockchain techniques to generate random numbers in a fully transparent process for ...

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In the spring of 2023, a London banker-turned-bookmaker reached out to a few contacts with an audacious request: Can you help me take down the Texas lottery? Bernard Marantelli had a plan in mind. He ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing some USB printers to start printing random text after installing Windows updates released since late January 2025. The bug has been addressed in the March ...

A recent Windows 11 update has caused some USB-connected printers to print random text instead of the intended documents. The issue starts from the KB5050092 preview update, which began rolling out on ...

Users have reported that their printers are unexpectedly printing random text and IPP protocol headers instead of the intended document. The bug primarily affects USB-connected dual-mode printers.