The State and the Machine: The Era When Humans Became a 'Line'

Last time, we traced the history of 'identity verification' from ancient times to the early modern period. Passwords, seals, ...

Passwords and Seals—An Era When Secrets Were Still Few

In September 2026, unauthorized access to the car-sharing service "Times Car" resulted in the acquisition of approximately 6.6 million account records by a third party. Of those, about 1.6 million ...
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AI cracked a 1918 German cipher message, then found a date error historians still can't explain

A coded German message from 1918, warning of an English cruiser bound for Sevastopol, has been decrypted after 108 years. The ...
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GPT-6 Astra Decodes 1809 Napoleonic Cipher

Carter Church, an AI engineer at SentinelOne, used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to transcribe and decipher a 1809 French military ...