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here are some things that computers, for all their prowess, don't do well – and one of them is randomness. Sure, computers spit out data all the time, why not random numbers? The problem is that computers rely on internal mechanisms that are at some level predictable, meaning the outputs of computer algorithms eventually become predictable, too, which is not what you want if you're running a casino. The same issue can cause headaches for cryptographers. When you encrypt information, you want the keys to the code to be as random as possible, so that no-one can work out how...

A woman is accused of killing a 3-year-old boy in a grocery store parking lot in Cleveland. She smirked in court. She stabbed and wounded the mother. Bianca Ellis The 32-year-old named Bionca Ellis was seen stalking 3-year-old Julian Wood and his mother before killing the boy with a knife. When the arraignment hearing began, Ellis refused to answer questions from the judge and was caught smirking. After answering “no” to almost every judge’s questions, Ellis finally pleaded not guilty to the charges. Her bond is $5 million. She deserves the death penalty. Ellis is accused of taking a knife...

ORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO) - We’re learning more about the woman charged with fatally stabbing a three-year-old boy outside a Giant Eagle grocery store in North Olmsted on Monday. According to public records, Bionca Ellis, 32, of Cleveland has not had an extensive criminal history. “There is nothing that shows that she has any violent tendencies,” said North Olmsted Detective Sergeant Matthew Beck. On Tuesday, Ellis was charged with the aggravated murder of Julian Wood. Investigators say Ellis stabbed the boy and his mother with a kitchen knife in the parking lot of a Giant Eagle supermarket in North Olmsted....

A group of teens forced a woman to miscarry with a brutal attack after she and her husband dared to stray onto a Chicago street that the youths claimed as their own. The 41-year-old mother was returning home with her husband from a date night on Friday when they were surrounded by at least 10 young people in the city's notorious Streeterville neighborhood. The woman, who gave her name only as Nina, told Fox32 that she was pepper-sprayed in the face, kicked in the stomach and lost a clump of hair as her husband was held back by the mob....

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO) - The 3-year-old boy who was stabbed at the Giant Eagle Monday afternoon has died from his injuries, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner. He was identified as Julian Wood. The stabbing happened just after 3 p.m. in the grocery store parking lot on Lorain Road in North Olmsted. PREVIOUS STORY: 3-year-old, mother stabbed at North Olmsted Giant Eagle, police say The child’s mother, Margot Wood, 38, of North Olmsted, was also stabbed. When North Olmsted police arrived on scene, several officers immediately gave first aid to both victims. EMS transported Julian and his mother...

A stranger bashed a 25-year-old woman in the head with a baseball bat in an apparently unprovoked attack in Chelsea this month, cops said as they released the first images of the brute. The victim was walking on Seventh Avenue near West 23rd Street around 10 p.m. Feb. 8 when the menace suddenly struck her with the weapon, authorities said. The senseless assault left herwith a cut and bruising, and she was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, police said.

She is the scarred face of spiraling subway crime. Sixteen procedures and more than a year after a deranged stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face in a Brooklyn train station... The random act of transit violence forever changed her life — and now, with subway crime up nearly 20% so far this year, she’s speaking out about how more cops and mental health resources are needed to restore safety and sanity to the rails. An unhinged woman, later identified as Rodlin Gravesande, suddenly and without saying a word, splashed sulfuric acid in her face... “I felt the pain immediately...

UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- An arrest has been made in what police are now calling the random murder of a 15-year-old in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania last spring. The same suspect is also suspected of stabbing a pregnant woman during a carjacking just two months before. Marson Weh, 24, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Michael Garr, a 10th grader in the Upper Darby School District.

A stranger randomly tripped a Jewish woman on a Brooklyn street this week, in an assault that the NYPD is investigating as a hate crime, police said Friday. The 51-year-old victim, wearing traditional religious garb, was walking on Empire Boulevard near Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 10 a.m. Thursday when the male assailant approached her from the opposite direction, authorities said. As the two were about to pass each other, he allegedly tripped her without saying a word, cops said. She fell to the sidewalk, suffering bruises and cuts on her hands and knees. The assailant then took...

Democratic Arizona gubernatorial candidate and current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ campaign office was broken into earlier this week and police are investigating the matter, her campaign manager said on Wednesday.

The Louisiana State University senior who was fatally shot while sitting in her car Friday morning appears to be the victim of a random attack, police said Tuesday. Investigators have found no evidence indicating that 21-year-old Allison Rice was targeted by her killer, a Baton Rouge police spokesperson told WBRZ on Tuesday. The development came as authorities also revealed federal agents from the FBI, ATF and DEA have offered assistance in the case, District Attorney Hillar Moore told the outlet. Moore called the murder an “isolated and random act,” and said detectives have pursued every single tip and lead they...

A stranger bashed a teen in the face with a brick in an unprovoked, broad-daylight Chelsea attack this week, cops said Wednesday. The assailant approached the victim around 11:30 a.m. Monday and struck him with the brick without saying a word on West 20th Street near 10th Avenue, police said. The victim was taken to Lenox Hill HealthPlex in stable condition, with a severe injury to his face. The suspect ran off after the attack. The victim told police he did not know the man who assaulted him and had no prior contact with him. Cops released footage of the...

Shelby County District Attorney Steven Mulroy (D), an advocate for far-left jailbreak policies, says 34-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of two Eliza Fletcher’s murder is merely an “isolated attack by a stranger.” Last Friday, Fletcher was abducted at approximately 4:20 p.m. while jogging around the University of Memphis campus by an individual in a dark-colored GMC Terrain. Her body was discovered Monday evening, approximately 7.5 miles away from where she was abducted, and authorities official confirmed her death the following morning.

A deranged gunman shot and killed a 48-year-old straphanger aboard a Manhattan subway train Sunday morning in what cops are calling an unprovoked attack. The shooter, who was still on the loose Sunday afternoon, paced back and forth in the last car of the northbound Q train around 11:42 a.m. before he opened fire on the random victim seated inside, police and sources said. “Completely random,” one police source said. The victim, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he was later pronounced dead, police said. According to witnesses, the suspect was walking back and forth...

A 15-year-old female student who was stabbed to death by a male intruder at a high school in California has been pictured. Alicia Reynaga was allegedly attacked by 52-year-old Anthony Gray at Stagg High School in Stockton yesterday. She was knifed multiple times before being rushed to hospital where she later passed away.

Shane William Ryan, 33, claimed an unprovoked attack on a man working out in an NT gym was an accident - until CCTV footage painted a very different picture. In footage shared by the NT Supreme Court, just before 4pm on October 22, 2020, Ryan and one other man are seen alone inside the Next Level Gym in Rosebery, southeast of Darwin. The man is seen lying flat on his back, performing a bench press with two dumbbells when Ryan approaches him with a 20kg weight. “At approximately, 3.52am the victim was lying on his back on a flat bench...

A 14-year-old boy was punched in the head and body countless times by a gang of attackers at a Brooklyn train station in a seemingly random attack. The unidentified victim was targeted at Van Siclen Avenue station in East New York, Brooklyn. Video released by the NYPD shows the perpetrators making their way into the station before choosing to beat up the boy. The gang of four then proceed to violently attack the youngster, punching him repeatedly in the body and head as he tries to protect his face. After the vicious attack, which took place last Monday, the gang...

A UCLA grad student has been stabbed to death in a random attack while she was working in a luxury furniture store in Los Angeles. Brianna Kupfer, 24, was alone in the Croft House store on La Brea Avenue when a customer entered and knifed her. The architectural design student from Pacific Palisades was discovered 20 minutes later by another customer after Thursday's attack. By the time police arrived at the scene, she was already dead. Police said the male suspect is believed to be homeless

A 71-year old Chicago man was executed a block from his Chinatown home in a suspected random attack on his way to buy a newspaper Tuesday afternoon. Dramatic footage reveals the moment Woom Sing Tse, a retired restaurateur, was walking by the Haines Elementary School, in Chinatown, when a silver two-door car slows by him. The unidentified driver, believed to be in his 20s, pulls out a gun and begins shooting Tse, who falls to the ground. The driver parks, steps out of the vehicle, and continues to unload his gun on the wounded man, killing him. Tse, a Chinese...

Police are searching for a group of three young men involved in at least three random assaults over a roughly four-hour span in Brooklyn Tuesday, and they're hoping surveillance photos will lead to arrests. The first incident in the crime spree happened just before 4:30 p.m. in front of 2428 East 27th Street in Sheepshead Bay, where an 81-year-old man was walking when an unknown individual approached and asked, "Where is the B44 bus?" As the victim began to give directions, the individual punched him in the face before fleeing southbound, on foot, along East 27th Street towards Avenue Y.