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Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages encoded by Enigma machines using LLMs built by OpenAI and Anthropic. While Turing and his team of cryptanalysts built an early computer, dubbed the Bombe, that allowed the United Kingdom to translate Enigma messages during the war, a handful of archival messages remain unbroken —…

Dear Reader, It has been many months since I last wrote you. Part of the reason for that is because I spent most of June and part of July in transit from FPC Morgantown to FCI McKean – a four hour drive away. For most of that time I had no access to pen, paper, stamps, or the rudimentary email system that I use to send these letters out.  The other part of the reason why I haven’t written in so long is that once I did finally arrive I was so shell shocked from the entire ordeal that I…

On a clean summer swell, the wave at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach arrives from the south, wraps around a cobblestone point and unspools toward the pier in a long, shimmering wave that can carry a surfer for hundreds of feet. It breaks slowly, forgivingly, over rounded stones that were delivered by Malibu Creek across millennia. The beach plays an outsized role in American and surf culture, inspiring the films “Gidget” and “The Endless Summer” and the songs of the Beach Boys. The point produced the longboarding style that still bears the place’s name: In Australia, longboards are called “Malibus.”  Kassia Meador…

Home Americas From Pope Leo XIV’s historic first visit to France to US President Donald Trump meeting China’s President Xi Jinping to flooded streets in Bangkok, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week’s most striking pictures. Issued on: 27/09/2026 – 12:05 2 min Reading time US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping after watching a military demonstration from a balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 24, 2026. © Evan Vucci, Reuters Pope Leo XIV leads a prayer with worshippers in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary at the Grotto…

Andy Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services to everyone in England, and will put his plans before voters at the next general election.The prime minister told the BBC that it would be a system in which “everyone contributes, everyone is covered”. He did not rule out tax rises, acknowledging it may be “difficult or unpopular” with some.Burnham said he wants to set out his “vision” on Tuesday and Whitehall troubleshooter Baroness Casey, who is conducting a review, will advise on the “best way of doing it”.Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the PM was suggesting Labour…

Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found. UpGuard told TechCrunch that it found around 16,000 databases on which some degree of personal data was exposed while they were hosted by Supabase, which allows web and app developers to store and run their databases. Supabase earlier this year reached a $10 billion valuation, thanks to a rise in developers hosting their vibe-coded apps on the platform. But the company has faced criticism for how it handles user security. There are widely documented…

Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, said that an age of digital assets and intelligence needs a “bill of digital rights,” rather than restrictions.An age of AI can increase production, but it needs better money and capital markets to realize its potential, according to an essay that Saylor, executive chairman of world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, posted on X Saturday.A useful framework for digital assets should establish five fundamental rights, or freedoms, Saylor wrote.These rights include (1) the freedom to create new digital assets and (2) to issue them to the market to finance business and productivity. They also include (3)…

It’s never pleasant to confront something unflattering about yourself, particularly when you catch yourself in the act. Recently I was mid-conversation with a stranger at a party, when I suddenly became conscious of my internal monologue: yes, hurry up, get to the point, you’re going to say this, then that, and what is the takeaway here?This wasn’t the first time I had noticed a shift in my real-life interactions. Over the preceding months, I had felt tired, even irritated, when loved ones so much as veered close to an anecdote or detail about their lives that I thought I had…

“My heart breaks every single day because I keep reliving it and reliving it, and I can’t no more, and I want this to happen before I die,” she added.”There’s not a day goes by that I don’t think about Colleen or how she died and how rough it was. I just want Christa down so I can end it, relieve my daughter, so she finally can be resting.”The Justice Coalition, a victims’ rights advocacy group, has raised money to help Martinez travel to Tennessee to watch the execution.The group’s executive director, Robert Bracewell, said this sentence was determined by…

In this tutorial, we work with MSEB, the Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark from Google Research, and approach it from the perspective of what a leaderboard number actually means: the evaluator surface. We install the package and map its three layers, then write two deliberately different encoders against the framework’s own abstract base class: one that measures loudness over time and one that measures timbre, and encode a small synthetic corpus we generate in the notebook so nothing has to be downloaded. We drive the classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluators over those embeddings, call the metric functions directly to see…