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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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apparently ai just broke a cryptographic scheme, hawk, that the us government was assessing to standardize.
Here's a link with more details of that attack:
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/claude-ai-just-cracked-post-quantum.html?m=1
the attack against aes is an older scheme. ai's attack against aes won't change anything about how we use aes. it's a pretty routine advancement. still impressive that ai came up with it.