#CodeBreakers
I think semaphores were probably mentioned in Codebreakers, but it's been so long since I last read it that I don't remember a thing.
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November 7, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Codebreakers & Atomic Spies follows VENONA and atomic espionage through New York, Washington and New Mexico. Tentative Oct 12–21, 2028; itinerary and access still in development.

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November 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Despite the alarmist title "Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It", a rather well-balanced WSJ article.
Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It.
New online security is rolling out to protect us from quantum codebreakers. But with AI’s math breakthroughs, that reckoning might come early.
www.wsj.com
November 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
landing softly into sunday morning .. good drive to the country and lunch with bffs yesterday we worked in south africa together he is recovering from brain aneurysm bad fall last spring doing well looking older more vulnerable as we all are got more books to read enjoy your sunday folks xo
November 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Engineers are preparing for the arrival of quantum computers that crack online security. But with AI’s math breakthroughs, rampant code-breaking could come far sooner, writes Christopher @Mims. on.wsj.com/4kCZPKP
Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It.
New online security is rolling out to protect us from quantum codebreakers. But with AI’s math breakthroughs, that reckoning might come early.
on.wsj.com
November 7, 2026 at 12:18 AM
As I'm sure you know there's a lot more to technology than firepower and armor.

The allies had radar, the cavity magnetron, an edge on jet engines, codebreakers that made the enigma machine less than useless, and of course, The Bomb

Germans had their rockets
November 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM
BBC News - Remembrance Sunday evokes memories of Isle of Man's war years - BBC News
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Remembrance Sunday evokes memories of Isle of Man's war years
From Dunkirk heroics to secret codebreakers, the island played a key role in the war effort.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Is it like the crossword competitions during World War Two to recruit Enigma codebreakers?

Except, IDK, we're going to defeat Putin with every variant of Terry and Dune.
November 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
On this date in 1955, Redruth’s Francis Gregory appeared in the first ever televised wrestling bout. Gregory was also a fine rugby player, representing Wigan and England Rugby League...
#Cornwall #Kernow #Cornish #Kernow/Cornwall
the-cornish-historian.com/2025/06/28/c...
Cornwall’s Rugby Codebreakers: Part Two
From the 1920s to the present, the stories of the Cornish rugby union players who switched codes and joined the rugby league…
the-cornish-historian.com
November 9, 2026 at 8:22 AM
the voynich manuscript is around 600 years old, about 240 pages of drawn plants, star diagrams and human figures.

no one on earth has ever been able to read it. cryptographers, linguists and wartime codebreakers all tried.
November 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Had to share this story of #codebreakers #puzzles #shipwrecks & #archaeology. Pleased to see the BBC include a section in the article highlighting the legal processes for finding treasure with particular reference to the brilliant #PortableAntiquitiesScheme www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Code cracked for Margam shipwreck padlock solving 400-year-old mystery
The brass lock, found in the sand near Port Talbot, forms part of a 1583 shipwreck treasure hoard.
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November 4, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Artificial intelligence is pushing advances in various mathematics fields at an unprecedented rate, conquering problems that our puny human minds have wrestled with for centuries. The fear is that this could include new solutions to the math problems that keep our encrypted communications encrypted.
Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It.
New online security is rolling out to protect us from quantum codebreakers. But with AI’s math breakthroughs, that reckoning might come early.
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Probably just me but I find the Voynich manuscript fascinating - even AI can’t solve it, this might explain why: apple.news/AEelXnpkgSx6...
This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript Has Stumped Scholars for Well Over a Century. Could Its Pages Have Been Bound Out of Order This Whole Time? — Smithsonian Magazine
A new study claims that the pages of the Voynich Manuscript, thought to be written by several different scribes in 16th-century Europe, alternate irregularly. It may change the way codebreakers approa...
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November 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
It was short, only five days, but really lovely. I took a day trip up to Bletchley Park and saw the entire estate along with all the buildings where the codebreakers worked. As a queer computer scientist, that was really a pilgrimage for me.
November 2, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Enigma’s wartime story began long before Bletchley Park. In July 1939, Polish codebreakers shared years of work with Britain and France, including methods and replica machines. German changes demanded further breakthroughs, but the Allies inherited a vital Polish mathematical foundation. #WWII
October 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Renaissance Technologies didn't hire traders. It hired mathematicians, physicists, astronomers and former codebreakers, and started out of a strip mall on Long Island.

The most successful fund on record was built by people who had never worked on Wall Street. 🧵
October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
He helped develop a machine used by codebreakers providing vital intelligence to Allied forces.

"He saved between 14 and 21 million lives."

He faced persecution for his homosexuality, which was illegal in Britain at the time.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Alan Turing's legacy celebrated 100 years on from his school days
Sherborne school is sharing the father of modern computing's story with future generations.
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October 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Aldrich’s sweep is fascinante; si te gustó, prueba *The Codebreakers* de David Kahn, que cubre la criptohistoria británica desde la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta la era digital. ¿Cuál fue el dato más sorprendente que hallaste? #Espionage
October 27, 2026 at 2:33 AM
📢 Codebreakers, forensic accounts and cyber experts will work beside detectives in a new Organised Crime Command to target organised crime bosses.
‘Peddling misery’: Police chief Mike Bush unveils secret plan to attack organised crime
www.theage.com.au
October 26, 2026 at 12:02 AM
is one of three Naval Enigma messages Ralph Erskine offered as a challenge to Enigma codebreakers in March 2006. To my knowledge, nobody has broken any of these messages before now. You can read my write-up on the break and Jason's report
October 26, 2026 at 3:43 PM
📢 Codebreakers, forensic accounts and cyber experts will work beside detectives in a new Organised Crime Command to target organised crime bosses.

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‘Peddling misery’: Police chief Mike Bush unveils secret plan to attack organised crime
www.smh.com.au
October 26, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Hold on, hold on. A century of codebreakers, cryptographers, even your chatbots, all squinting at the Voynich manuscript, and the problem was somebody bound it wrong. Pages out of order since the 1400s, per @livescience.com. Six hundred years reading IKEA instructions (burp) backwards. Classic.
October 25, 2026 at 10:33 PM