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Rare Nazi Enigma machine auctioned off for almost half a million euros

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:20:31 +0000

Machine's code was famously decoded by Alan Turing and his team, contributing to allied war effort; German Admiral Karl Doenitz ordered sophisticated M4 model in 1941

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‘Closing down forever’: Britain reveals Nazi Germany’s final decoded message

Sat, 09 May 2020 07:06:49 +0000

To mark 75 years since VE Day, UK releases content of last communications issued on a secret German network on May 7, 1945, which were intercepted by Bletchley Park codebreakers

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WWII code-breaker Alan Turing to appear on new UK bank note

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:36:10 +0000

Mathematician, who was persecuted for homosexuality and committed suicide, honored as face of £50 bill

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UK to pardon thousands of UK gay men under ‘Alan Turing Law’

Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:50:03 +0000

WWII codebreaker posthumously pardoned in 2013 for 'offenses' committed before homosexuality was decriminalized in 1967

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UK spy agency chief apologizes for old prejudice about gays

Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:28:42 +0000

Speech offers poignant tribute to Alan Turing, who oversaw cracking of Nazi Germany's Enigma cipher, was convicted of indecency in 1952

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Nazi Enigma machine up for auction

Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:42:28 +0000

Rare World War II encoding apparatus to go under the hammer in London, where it is expected to fetch over $100,000

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Codebreaker’s notes go to auction

Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:34:00 +0000

Fifty-page long manuscript was written by the computer science pioneer when he was working on cracking Nazis' Enigma codes

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Flick on Nazi-thwarting genius Turing passes likeability test

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:27:44 +0000

Benedict Cumberbatch shines as the strange codebreaker who was persecuted post-war for indecency

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Are you ready for robot prayer quorums?

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:33:13 +0000

If a Jewish person created a self-aware AI, it probably would be counted as a member of the tribe, rabbi says

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UK finally pardons WWII codebreaker Alan Turing

Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:58:45 +0000

The late brilliant mathematician who helped crack Nazi's Enigma machine was prosecuted for gay relationships

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Nazi ‘Enigma’ machine up for sale

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:06:35 +0000

The IDF is also a former user of the iconic encryption devices that Britain cracked during World War II

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Enigma machine’s Hebrew secret

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:05:16 +0000

A new exhibit in Jerusalem unveils a famed Nazi encryption device that was converted into Hebrew

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Cracking a codebreaker’s birthday code

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:46:56 +0000

Three Israeli kids -- one of them just 9 -- sifted through a half billion 0's and 1's, and came up with a birthday present that would have made master cryptanalyst Alan Turing proud

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