Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...
ADTmag

Java Ecosystem Advances with Strict Field Initialization JEP Amid Cross-Platform Malware Threats

The global Java development ecosystem experienced significant structural changes this week following the introduction of a new OpenJDK enhancement draft alongside warnings from cybersecurity ...
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KIMONOLOGY LAB #03 Why did the patterns in Demon Slayer resonate globally? Patterns are cultural codes that encrypt prayers

Is it the perfection of the animation? Of course, I think those are major reasons. However, I believe there is one more important element. That is the "patterns" (monyo). The ichimatsu (checkered) ...
TechCrunch

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United States, ...