2026-10-20 — Claude cracks a 29-year crypto mystery

anthropic-ecdsa-curve-origins — Claude reveals the origins of the NIST curve seeds

In under half an hour, an Anthropic research model showed that the long-unexplained seeds behind P-256 and the other NIST curves came from a C random-number generator seeded with an August 1997 timestamp. It isn't a break, but it is the kind of digging that matters in security.

french-slopcore-song — An AI "slopcore" song about not being AI

A funny AI-made music video, and a sign of how good AI music and video have got.