ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 108-year-old unsolved WWI German code for the first time
By Mark Tyson, Tom's Hardware

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Now 108 years after its transmission, an encrypted World War I German radio message has apparently been deciphered for the first time. The decoded and translated message relays information about the movements of an English cruiser and an Allied squadron near the Crimean Peninsula. Prinz, the developer who reckons they successfully decoded this covert WWI communication, used GPT-Astra to solve the cipher. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis The custom AI ASIC state of play Prinz picked the code from a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers maintained by the German science blogging…
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