Colossus, the cipher-breaking World War II computer, is to be pitted against modern computing power in a competition organized by the National Museum of Computing. In an event called the "Cipher ...

AI may have cracked a 370-year-old cipher in 44 minutes. The harder question is whether it discovered the answer, remembered it, or merely guessed well.

A German coder has beaten the British team operating the legendary WWII code-breaking computer Colossus in a cipher-cracking contest. In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum ...