In a big blog post both on Spotify’s newsroom and on its engineering blog, the streaming service has finally addressed the ...

The core idea hasn’t changed, as shuffle still randomizes your playlist. What’s new is the weighting. Spotify generates multiple shuffle orders behind the scenes before picking the one it thinks ...

Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

There I was, walking to the railway station, minding my own business, when... bam! Our song. That's the gamble you take when you set your device to "random". Sometimes you get good songs, sometimes ...

Deployment of more and more applications on the cloud and use of the Internet demand careful attention to cyber security threats. Attacks against web applications are the most frequent challenge. To ...