The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.

The Voynich manuscript — often called the most mysterious manuscript in the world — has eluded attempts to understand its origin, nature, and purpose for centuries. Its text is made up of a strange ...

The year was 1637, and Georg Baresch, an alchemist and renowned collector of antiquities based in Prague, had a baffling mystery on his hands. For years now, he had been in possession of a most ...

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 ...

Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe. Ask ChatGPT how to ...

CleanSpark (CLSK) and Cipher Mining (CIFR) were trading higher as J.P. Morgan raised its recommendation on the bitcoin miners. CLSK shares were +4.42% pre-market to $10.16, while CIFR was +4.59% to ...

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 plans to raise $1.4 billion through the issuance of senior secured notes to fund its Barber Lake data center. The financing follows a $5.5 billion, 15-year AI data center lease deal with ...

Cipher Mining (CIFR) jumped 19% on Monday after signing a $5.5 billion lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), pushing deeper into the red-hot artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kryptos sculpture sits in front of the CIA headquarters in Virginia. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) The ...