A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted message. Science journalist Michael Greshko created the 'Naibbe cipher', a ...

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.

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – Over 40 million Americans could lose access to federal food assistance Saturday if the government shutdown continues into November. Barring a deal in Congress that would end the stalemate, ...

The Milwaukee Bucks Foundation launched a free health and wellness program to help underserved populations manage obesity. The program, which has served nearly 1,000 people, utilizes a mobile app and ...

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 ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.

SNAP serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans. One of the biggest impacts of the government shutdown is about to hit tens of millions of the poorest Americans hard: the halting of a critical ...

Over on YouTube, [The Modern Rogue] created an interesting video showing a slide-rule-like encryption device called the Réglette. This was a hardware implementation of a Vigenère-like Cipher, ...

Learn how to implement a classic substitution cipher in C! This step-by-step tutorial walks you through encoding and decoding messages by replacing each letter with another according to a fixed key. A ...

Minnesota officials have suspended payments to providers of another Medicaid-funded program, citing “credible allegations of fraud” as they attempt to crack down on schemes to swindle state and ...