Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work ...

Alex Baber — a 50-year-old West Virginian with autism — used AI programs and his codebreaking prowess to whittle down the ...

A World War Two codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park as a Bombe machine operator and checker has died at the age of 99.

Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

Elizebeth Friedman was a star cryptanalyst who cracked hundreds of ciphers for the U.S. government. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Armed with a sharp mind and nerves of steel, Elizebeth Smith ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago set in motion a series of battles in the Pacific between the Japanese and the United States. The turning point in the Pacific came in June 1942, when the U.S.

UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai. (photo by Juliette Vazquez) For the second year in a row, UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai was ...

As you know, Star Wars is one of the biggest franchises of all time and arguably the biggest sci-fi franchise of all times. This explains why there are so many derivative works and why the Star Wars ...

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...

The Houston Astros' sign-stealing scheme had its origins in an application created by the team's front office, according to a report published Friday night by the Wall Street Journal. Dubbed ...