Many visitors to Bletchley Park, home of the UK's code-breaking efforts during World War II, must have enjoyed meeting Tony Sale, who appeared to spend much of his free time tending Colossus. This was ...

In the past few months, researchers from the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) have uncovered detailed intelligence of Germany’s Lorenz messages decrypted with the help of the Colossus machine ...

The fate of the world may not hang in the balance this time, but a team of engineers have resurrected Bletchley Park's famous Colossus computer, the World War II code breaking machine widely ...

A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of ...

Betty Webb had originally signed up with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), with her reasoning per a 2012 interview being that she and a couple of like-minded students felt that they ought to be ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The world's first large-scale, electronic programmable computer was created to do one job - crack Hitler ...

British intelligence has released new photos showing the World War II era "Colossus" computer. It marked the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking computer's invention. The device's existence was ...

The government is to give Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers a badge to commemorate their efforts during the war. The commemorative scheme, which will be open to all military and civilian personnel who ...

An amateur cryptographer in Germany used a PC and homegrown software to thrash a replica of the Colossus system in a code-cracking challenge that emulated the British governments use of the pioneering ...

I spent a day last week at Bletchley Park, about an hour north of London. As I think is now well known, during the Second World War this was where a team of smart people, notably Alan Turing, broke ...

Silicon.com has posted a video and photos of the reconstruction of the world's first electronic code-breaking computer: Colossus. I spent a decade as a reporter and editor before joining the CNET News ...