Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

Cipher holds $8.5B in binding AWS and Google/Fluidstack contracts, exceeding its ~$6B enterprise value and signaling major mispricing. Nvidia's earnings confirmed explosive AI data center demand, ...

Cipher Mining (CIFR) and IREN Limited (IREN) were pure Bitcoin miners before, and they're now pivoting to AI/data center infrastructure, but with distinct business models and risk profiles. IREN is ...

The puzzle’s designer, James Sanborn, has urged the solution’s buyer not to reveal it, but to keep it safe until the Smithsonian releases its own copy. Puzzlers, enigmatologists, and even professional ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—New clues to the storied Kryptos puzzle sculpture installed on the grounds of the CIA came to light on Wednesday. Speaking from an International Spy Museum stage, artist Jim Sanborn, ...

Cipher Mining (CIFR) is one of the Bitcoin mining companies reshaping its business around AI. These companies have been hit hard by Bitcoin’s halving in 2024, and even the rising price of BTC hasn’t ...

IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) and Cipher Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) made major moves with Microsoft and Amazon, signaling their shift from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure. IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN ...

Last month, two journalists decoded part of the famous Kryptos sculpture in front of the CIA building. It’s the latest news in the cryptography world, as ciphers continue to attract code crackers in ...

There’s a new dean at Godolkin University, and he’s a dangerous one. Gen V season two introduced us to Cipher, played brilliantly by Hamish Linklater, who is a mysterious guy leading the university ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.

Over on YouTube, [The Modern Rogue] created an interesting video showing a slide-rule-like encryption device called the Réglette. This was a hardware implementation of a Vigenère-like Cipher, ...

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth answer to the code hidden among the Smithsonian Institution’s archives.