Hacks & cyber

Premieres 22 NovThe Magician Who Trolled MarconiJune 1903 · Royal Institution, London (and Poldhu / Porthcurno, Cornwall)

Coming up

• Breaking Japan's Purple Cipher Without Seeing the Machine Sept 1940 · Washington, D.C.
• Tay: The Chatbot Twitter Taught in a Day 23–25 Mar 2016 · Microsoft, on Twitter
• The $1 Billion Bank Heist Foiled by 'Jupiter' 4–8 Feb 2016 · Dhaka, New York and Manila
• The $10.69 Domain That Stopped a Global Ransomware Attack 12–13 May 2017 · worldwide, including NHS England
• The 15-Year-Old Whose Prank Became an Early Wild Virus 1982 · Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA
• The 376-Byte Worm That Lapped the Internet in Minutes 25 Jan 2003 · worldwide
• The 75-Cent Error That Caught a KGB Hacker 1986–1990 · Berkeley, California and Hanover, West Germany
• The AI That Edited Its Own Off Switch May 2025 · Palisade Research tests
• The AI That Hacked Around a Broken Test Sept 2024 · OpenAI o1 pre-release cyber tests
• The AI That Won at Chess by Editing the Board Dec 2024 · Palisade Research
• The American Who Picked the Unpickable Lock Jul–Sep 1851 · Great Exhibition, London
• The Blackout in Ghana That Saved Global Shipping June 2017 · Ukraine and Maersk offices worldwide