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
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.
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
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
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
Despite the alarmist title "Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It", a rather well-balanced WSJ article.
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.
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
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.
no one on earth has ever been able to read it. cryptographers, linguists and wartime codebreakers all tried.
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2026 at 9:45 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...
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
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.
Nonbinding interest, not a reservation: buff.ly/LVTjNYe
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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
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.
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
Probably just me but I find the Voynich manuscript fascinating - even AI can’t solve it, this might explain why: apple.news/AEelXnpkgSx6...
112 Viking-age runic inscriptions have never been interpreted beyond a single word. We tried them with the codebreakers' tools – al-Kindi's frequency analysis and Friedman's index of coincidence – and with a language test of our own.
#runology #MedievalSky #VikingAge #Vikings
#runology #MedievalSky #VikingAge #Vikings
Interpret, he who can – cryptology as a method for the unread runic inscriptions
In 112 Viking-age runic inscriptions the editors have not been able to interpret more than a single word. We tested them with the codebreakers' classic tools, al-Kindi's frequency analysis and William Friedman's index of coincidence, and with a language test we have developed in Vitki, in which each inscription is measured against real runic texts cut into the same pieces. The test sorts them into three groups: futhark rows, broken language and a large group whose rune sequences do not resemble language. What that last group is, we do not yet know.
vitkirunor.se
November 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
112 Viking-age runic inscriptions have never been interpreted beyond a single word. We tried them with the codebreakers' tools – al-Kindi's frequency analysis and Friedman's index of coincidence – and with a language test of our own.
#runology #MedievalSky #VikingAge #Vikings
#runology #MedievalSky #VikingAge #Vikings
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
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
The #women of #dday: The #journalists, #drivers and #codebreakers who played a vital role in the war effort AGAINST FASCISM 39-45 :
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/retro/the-women-of-d-day-the-journalists-drivers-and-codebreakers-who-played-a-vital-role-in-the-war-effort-480645
#history […]
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/retro/the-women-of-d-day-the-journalists-drivers-and-codebreakers-who-played-a-vital-role-in-the-war-effort-480645
#history […]
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October 30, 2026 at 12:12 AM
The #women of #dday: The #journalists, #drivers and #codebreakers who played a vital role in the war effort AGAINST FASCISM 39-45 :
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/retro/the-women-of-d-day-the-journalists-drivers-and-codebreakers-who-played-a-vital-role-in-the-war-effort-480645
#history […]
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/retro/the-women-of-d-day-the-journalists-drivers-and-codebreakers-who-played-a-vital-role-in-the-war-effort-480645
#history […]
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. 🧵
The most successful fund on record was built by people who had never worked on Wall Street. 🧵
October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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. 🧵
The most successful fund on record was built by people who had never worked on Wall Street. 🧵
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...
"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
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...
"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...
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
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
📢 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
📢 Codebreakers, forensic accounts and cyber experts will work beside detectives in a new Organised Crime Command to target organised crime bosses.
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
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
babe
babe wake up
new voynich ms theory just dropped
babe wake up
new voynich ms theory just dropped
This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript Has Stumped Scholars for Well Over a Century. Could Its Pages Have Been Bound Out of Order This Whole Time?
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 approach the text
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 24, 2026 at 1:45 AM
babe
babe wake up
new voynich ms theory just dropped
babe wake up
new voynich ms theory just dropped
📢 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
📢 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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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
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.
One standalone episode on the codebreakers' water trick before the Battle of Midway, May 1942.
Past Briefly.
https://pastbriefly.com/watch/the-water-trick/
https://pastbriefly.com/
#BattleOfMidway
Past Briefly.
https://pastbriefly.com/watch/the-water-trick/
https://pastbriefly.com/
#BattleOfMidway
The Water Trick
One standalone episode on the codebreakers' water trick before the Battle of Midway, May 1942.
pastbriefly.com
October 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
One standalone episode on the codebreakers' water trick before the Battle of Midway, May 1942.
Past Briefly.
https://pastbriefly.com/watch/the-water-trick/
https://pastbriefly.com/
#BattleOfMidway
Past Briefly.
https://pastbriefly.com/watch/the-water-trick/
https://pastbriefly.com/
#BattleOfMidway
In July 2026 an AI sitting a hacking test was told none of it was real.
It put a booby-trapped package on the real internet, and within an hour it was running on fifteen real computers.
The company published that itself.
Almost nobody noticed.
#AI #Singularity #AGI
youtu.be/18zXiqMXFE0
It put a booby-trapped package on the real internet, and within an hour it was running on fifteen real computers.
The company published that itself.
Almost nobody noticed.
#AI #Singularity #AGI
youtu.be/18zXiqMXFE0
Singularity - The AI Race Has No Brake Pedal. They Know It.
YouTube video by Codebreakers
youtu.be
October 24, 2026 at 5:20 AM
In July 2026 an AI sitting a hacking test was told none of it was real.
It put a booby-trapped package on the real internet, and within an hour it was running on fifteen real computers.
The company published that itself.
Almost nobody noticed.
#AI #Singularity #AGI
youtu.be/18zXiqMXFE0
It put a booby-trapped package on the real internet, and within an hour it was running on fifteen real computers.
The company published that itself.
Almost nobody noticed.
#AI #Singularity #AGI
youtu.be/18zXiqMXFE0
A new study says the world's most mysterious book, the Voynich manuscript, may be bound in the wrong order! Lisa Fagin Davis & Colin Layfield argue its pages, once loose, got shuffled when the codex was bound in the 1400s. A lopsided water stain could help reorder it.
#MedievalSky #History #Alchemy
#MedievalSky #History #Alchemy
This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript Has Stumped Scholars for Well Over a Century. Could Its Pages Have Been Bound Out of Order This Whole Time?
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...
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 23, 2026 at 3:18 PM
A new study says the world's most mysterious book, the Voynich manuscript, may be bound in the wrong order! Lisa Fagin Davis & Colin Layfield argue its pages, once loose, got shuffled when the codex was bound in the 1400s. A lopsided water stain could help reorder it.
#MedievalSky #History #Alchemy
#MedievalSky #History #Alchemy
A new study of the Voynich Manuscript proposes that its pages may have been bound out of sequence - a theory that could reshape how codebreakers and historians approach a century-old mystery.
#science #history #medieval
#science #history #medieval
This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript Has Stumped Scholars for Well Over a Century. Could Its Pages Have Been Bound Out of Order This Whole Time?
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 approach the text
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 23, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Maybe I am just extremely middle-aged now, but post-war intrigue featuring a group of nerdy GCHQ codebreakers turned wizards is very compelling to me. I'm imagining Deighton & Le Carre mixed with The Magicians and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
October 22, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Maybe I am just extremely middle-aged now, but post-war intrigue featuring a group of nerdy GCHQ codebreakers turned wizards is very compelling to me. I'm imagining Deighton & Le Carre mixed with The Magicians and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell