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Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say

07/05/2025 04:00 The Guardian

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientistsThe Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.While Polish experts broke early versions of the Enigma code in the 1930s and built anti-Enigma machines, subsequent security upgrades by the Germans meant Turing had to develop new machines, or “Bombes”, to help his team of codebreakers decipher enemy messages. By 1943, the machines could decipher two messages every minute. Continue reading...

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House panel on campus antisemitism likened to cold-war ‘un-American’ committee

Georgetown professor called to testify says Republican-led proceedings ‘an attempt to chill protected speech’A congressional panel investigating antisemitism on US college campuses on Wednesday was accused of trying to chill constitutionally protected free speech and likened to a cold-war era co...

07/05/2025 20:02 The Guardian
Federal Reserve keeps interest rates on hold amid Trump’s erratic trade strategy – live

US policymakers caution ‘the risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen’ as they maintain benchmark interest rate for third time in a rowFederal Reserve warns of inflation and jobs risks amid Trump’s erratic trade strategyBritain is in “active discussions” with US officia...

07/05/2025 19:51 The Guardian
Federal Reserve warns of inflation and jobs risks amid Trump’s erratic trade strategy

Central bank says ‘uncertainty has increased’ as it opts to maintain benchmark interest rate for third time in a rowThe Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold and called out growing dangers in the US economy amid Donald Trump’s erratic rollout of an aggressive trade strategy.Jerome Powell...

07/05/2025 18:50 The Guardian
Keeping Farage from No 10 is ‘a battle for UK’s future, heart and soul’, Labour MPs told

In face of ‘economic doom loop’, Labour factions call for reset and demand party tackle populist nationalism head on Labour MPs have ramped up pressure on the Treasury, calling for an economic reset after the Reform UK surge in the local elections and saying that the economy is stuck in a “doo...

07/05/2025 18:18 The Guardian
India’s Pakistan strikes show how warfare has been normalised again

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07/05/2025 17:49 The Guardian
Xi Jinping begins four-day Russia visit after Ukrainian drones attack Moscow

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07/05/2025 16:20 The Guardian
Ohio police find pet raccoon in car driver’s seat with meth pipe in its mouth

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07/05/2025 15:36 The Guardian
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07/05/2025 15:19 The Guardian
India and Pakistan can ill afford war, but who will talk them down? | Hannah Ellis-Petersen

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07/05/2025 14:37 The Guardian
Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted several UK websites

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07/05/2025 14:33 The Guardian
Israel’s Gaza plan ‘dangerous moment for civilians’, UN warns – Middle East crisis live

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07/05/2025 14:07 The Guardian
Trainline shares tumble amid warnings over expansion of London contactless zone

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07/05/2025 12:30 The Guardian
Pakistan PM authorises ‘corresponding action’ after India strikes kill 26 | First Thing

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07/05/2025 11:07 The Guardian
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Workers at the esteemed news service say they’re being silenced by the president – but they’re vowing to fight backCarolina Valladares Pérez, a Washington-based correspondent for the government-funded international news service Voice of America, has reported from places where press freedom is...

07/05/2025 11:00 The Guardian
PMQs live: Starmer to face Badenoch for first time since local elections

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07/05/2025 10:49 The Guardian
Woman wins £30,000 compensation for being compared to Darth Vader

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07/05/2025 10:04 The Guardian
Pakistan decries ‘act of war’ as it retaliates against India missile attack

India claims strikes, which followed attack on Hindu tourists in Kashmir last month, targeted ‘terrorist infrastructure’India-Pakistan crisis - live updatesAt least 26 people, including several children, have been killed and 46 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine si...

07/05/2025 10:01 The Guardian
China to cut interest rates in response to trade war with US

Half-point cut to be made to banks’ reserve requirement ratio and 1tn yuan released into banking systemBusiness live – latest updatesChina will cut interest rates and inject some much-needed liquidity into the domestic economy, as the country steels itself for a bruising trade war with the US.Th...

07/05/2025 09:40 The Guardian
Work ban forcing 10% of UK female asylum seekers into sex work

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07/05/2025 09:00 The Guardian
‘I was terrified’: security guard in charge tells Bondi Junction stabbings inquest communication difficulties caused delay in warning

Joseph Gaerlan tells court he received distress call during his lunch break warning ‘there’s lots of blood, you need to hurry’Australia news live: latest politics and federal election updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA security guard in charge of emergency resp...

07/05/2025 08:03 The Guardian
Erin Patterson discharged herself five minutes after doctor warned she may have death cap mushroom poisoning, court hears

Doctor tells Victorian triple murder trial he called the police in a bid to have Patterson return to the hospitalWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA doctor who treated Erin Patterson has...

07/05/2025 06:50 The Guardian
Erin Patterson trial day seven – as it happened

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07/05/2025 06:48 The Guardian
Wednesday briefing: Pakistan vows response to ‘act of war’ after India’s cross-border strikes

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07/05/2025 06:06 The Guardian
Biden accuses Trump of ‘modern-day appeasement’ towards Russia

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07/05/2025 05:54 The Guardian
Russian drone strike caused tens of millions worth of damage to Chornobyl

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07/05/2025 04:00 The Guardian
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07/05/2025 04:00 The Guardian
US and China to hold tariff talks in Switzerland this weekend, treasury chief says – as it happened

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07/05/2025 01:59 The Guardian
Australia news live: flu vaccination rates dire, experts warn; child missing after Toowoomba house fire

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06/05/2025 22:04 The Guardian
Friedrich Merz calls for US to ‘stay out’ of German politics

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06/05/2025 21:41 The Guardian
No 10 ‘completely tone deaf’ on harm caused by winter fuel cut, critics say

Polling finds two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy and would not see it as a sign of weakness Downing Street has been accused of being “completely tone deaf” over the damage wreaked by winter fuel cuts as new polling suggested two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the p...

06/05/2025 21:14 The Guardian
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