AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...

How a Secret Team of American Female Codebreakers Toppled a Cold War Soviet Spy Network—and Unmasked Traitors on Home Soil

At Arlington Hall, women on the Venona Project exploited a Soviet cipher flaw to expose Cold War spies, a secret that remained hidden for decades.

Inside the Top-Secret Project that Led to One of the World’s Greatest Counterespionage Feats

In early February of 1943, Gene Grabeel walks toward a corner of a large, crowded room inside Arlington Hall near Washington, D.C. Around her, clutches of people huddle over tables and quietly rifle ...