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Two PHP Exploits hit the news last week. Dr Steve Bagley explains how dangerous they could be. Read about the chip competition on Jane Street’s blog: https://jane-st.co/ASIC-Competition-Computerphile2027 (channel sponsor) Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about…

Image watermarks are a way to embed information into a picture, Dr Mike Pound takes us through Adobe's Trust Mark to explain the idea & covers some of the pros and cons. 00:00 - Introduction: Watermarking Images vs…

When two threads or processes clash, a race condition can occur. Matt Godbolt demonstrates different kinds of race conditions by equating these to real-life human situations. Find out more about Matt from his blog: https://bit.ly/C_MGodbolt Computerphile is supported…

We use undo daily, but have you thought about what goes into making a functional undo in a program? Dr Steve Bagley takes us through some of the things we need to think about if we're implementing it…

So far, 'Chain of Thought' has allowed us a glimpse at the processes by which Large Language Models work their way through problems. What if these LLMs begin to talk in a language only they understand? Rob Miles…

This AI Watermarking Deep Dive by Dr Mike Pound includes an explanation of the idea behind the latest AI Watermarking plus a demo of Mike's own implementation of the system. SynthID Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4 Computerphile is supported by Jane…

The CPU can take time to find out the time, so how does it know the time? Matt Godbolt is the genius behind Compiler Explorer and the Godbolt BBC Micro Emulator, find more from him at godbolt.org Computerphile…

The DEC PDP computers from decades ago now comfortably run on a cheap computer such as a Raspberry Pi. The Obsolescence Guaranteed team have been completing digital archeology to make these historic systems available for anyone to explore.…

The excitement of video games from the 8-bit home video era but decades earlier and with a few zeroes added to the price tag the PDP10 was a lot of machine for the late '60's! Computerphile is supported…

Exploring how quantum computing can have an impact on the established area of Machine Learning. Professor Mohammad Reza Mousavi is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. Computerphile is supported by…

Something odd was going on with the signals broadcast by the GPS satellites. Steven Murdoch of University College London explains how he used statistical analysis to work out what might be going on. To read more about Steven's…

We brought a computer scientist and a physicist together to talk about Shor's algorithm - a famous factorisation algorithm for that can break some currently used encryption techniques if implemented in the quantum realm. Phil's accompanying blog post:…