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A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of ...

In an ironic twist, a British team operating a World War II code-breaking computer has been beaten in a cipher-breaking contest by a German. In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the U.K.'s ...

An amateur cryptographer in Germany used a PC and homegrown software to thrash a replica of the Colossus system in a code-cracking challenge that emulated the British governments use of the pioneering ...

On Thursday, UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) announced the release of previously unseen images and documents related to Colossus, one of the first digital computers. The release ...

On this day in economic and financial history... Colossus came online on Feb. 5, 1944. It was the first electronic, digital, programmable computer ever built in the world, and it would become a vital ...

An amateur cryptographer and ham radio operator in Germany thrashed the reconstructed Colossus system in a code-cracking challenge that replicated the pioneering digital computer’s work in helping the ...

British intelligence has released "rare and never-before-seen images" of the World War II era "Colossus" code-breaking computer. GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency, said in a press ...

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