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Hidden Dead Sea script finally cracked after decades of mystery

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

CyberVolk’s ransomware debut stumbles on cryptography weakness

The pro-Russia hacktivist group CyberVolk launched a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called VolkLocker that suffered from ...
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The Secret Inside Joke Developers Have Been Hiding in Plain Sight for Decades

For decades, software developers have been slipping jokes into their work. One of the most enduring, clever, and geekily satisfying inside jokes has been hiding in plain sight: the recursive acronym.