Studio skits and magazine cutouts: How Monty Python inspired The Traveling Wilburys

Despite being the most powerful supergroup in music, The Traveling Wilburys were all about having fun and keeping it simple. Read more here.
Hackaday

Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise

Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks. [Theory to Thing] recently built a device to generate random numbers ...
IEEE

Fully Distributed Verifiable Random Functions and their Application to Decentralised Random Beacons

Abstract: We provide a systematic analysis of two related multiparty protocols, namely (Non-Interactive Fully) Distributed Verifiable Random Functions (DVRFs) and Decentralised Random Beacons (DRBs), ...
IEEE

A Hash Table Without Hash Functions, and How to Get the Most Out of Your Random Bits

Abstract: This paper considers the basic question of how strong of a probabilistic guarantee can a hash table, storing $n(1+\Theta(1))\log n$-bit key/value pairs ...