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A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog

Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range …

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A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog

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