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What Is the Luhn Algorithm? The Math Behind Secure Credit Card Numbers
Find out how this simple algorithm from the 1960s keeps your wallet safe By Jack Murtagh edited by Jeanna Bryner If you’re enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.…
Ireland calls on Haiti to secure release of group kidnapped from local orphanage
An Irish missionary and three-year-old child are among eight people taken by gunmen who stormed the place Ireland’s foreign ministry has called on Haitian authorities to ensure “everything is done” to secure the release of a group of people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, taken by gunmen who stormed a local orphanage.…
The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base
By Fatima Al-Kassab LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U.S. military base. The Chagos Islands are an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Under the deal,…
Tory peer helped secure meeting with minister for Canadian firm he advises
Ian Duncan ‘facilitated an introduction’ for Terrestrial Energy, which was seeking government funding A Conservative peer helped to secure a meeting with a minister for a Canadian company he was advising while it was seeking government funding worth millions of pounds. The meeting with Andrew Bowie, the nuclear minister at the time, enabled the chief…
Mike Johnson fails to secure majority votes for House speakership
Chamber will likely be forced in to a second ballot after three Republicans vote against Johnson in first round After initially facing internal dissent, Trump-endorsed Republican Mike Johnson secured the House speakership in the first round of voting on Friday. Johnson couldn’t afford to lose more than one Republican vote, and three Republican members of…