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For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

A research team at TU Wien and Cerabyte just shrunk the QR code to an impossible scale. Their creation measures only 1.98 square micrometers. This makes the code smaller than most bacteria. It is so ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning about a growing cyber threat that turns everyday QR codes into spying tools. According to the bureau, a North Korean government-sponsored ...

The North Korean state-sponsored hacker group Kimsuki is using malicious QR codes in spearphishing campaigns that target U.S. organizations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warns in a flash alert.

Software built into the cameras on iPhones and Android phones makes quick work of decoding QR codes. How do you do that on a laptop or desktop computer? I have a friend who calls me occasionally to ...

A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially hiding in plain sight in embedded QR codes. QR codes are ubiquitous these ...

Reads textual information from an image file (GIF, PNG, JPEG, etc.) by scanning for QR codes and printing decoded text to the console. Prints each decoded QR-code line to stdout, prefixed with "Строка ...