Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

On a blustery March day, the artist Jim Sanborn received visitors at his studio on an isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay. The visitors sat him down in front of a laptop, and he typed in a secret message. They compressed the message using a unique hash function, sent that to the cloud, and wiped … Read more

AI Has Come for Serif Fonts

AI Has Come for Serif Fonts

As public backlash to the seeming omnipresence of artificial intelligence intensifies, the collective quest to weed out—and reject—telltale signs of its use continues. One of the first casualties, to my dismay, was em dashes—which are a great, and very human form of punctuation, by the way! There’s also the “rule of threes,” which is meant … Read more