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Diffie and Hellman Publish New Directions in Cryptography
Stanford University, 450, Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, Santa Clara County, California, 94305, United StatesStanford University
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE49.8 years agoThe paper's own running head gives the issue and no day: "IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, VOL. IT-22, NO. 6, NOVEMBER 1976". A month with no day is estimated at that month's last day.[1]Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman propose public-key cryptography and a way for two parties to agree a secret key over an open channel. It is the idea that later makes e-commerce and secure messaging possible.0.64Shannon Publishes A Mathematical Theory of Communication
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE78.1 years agoThe paper's own reprint header gives the issue and no day: "Reprinted with corrections from The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 379-423, 623-656, July, October, 1948." It ran in two parts, July and October; a month with no day is estimated at that month's last day, so the pin sits at the end of July 1948, the first part.[1]Claude Shannon's paper appears in the Bell System Technical Journal, defining the bit, channel capacity and entropy, and founding information theory. Every modem, codec and error-correcting code since rests on it.0.62NVIDIA Launches CUDA-Q Logical for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE9 days agoNVIDIA's[1][2][6] newsroom dates the release 'September 14, 2026' ('NVIDIA today announced'), and SiliconANGLE's[4] report stamped 09:00 EDT that day says 'The announcement came at this week's IEEE Quantum Week 2026 event that kicked off in Toronto today.'An open-source orchestration layer added to NVIDIA's CUDA-Q lets researchers model error-correction codes, algorithms and qubit hardware together; Fermilab cut fault-tolerant design work from five months to three weeks with it.0.62TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung
ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE266 days agoTSMC's[1][2] 2nm page says N2 "has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned" and its 2025 annual report that it "entered high volume manufacturing in 4Q'25"; neither names the day, so the quarter's last day stands in.TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.0.61Nakamoto Publishes the Bitcoin White Paper
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE17.9 years agoWikipedia's[2][3] History of bitcoin[1] dates the posting plainly: "Later that year, on 31 October, a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted to a cryptography mailing list." The pin is that posting; the network itself began on 3 January 2009 with the genesis block.A paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, signed Satoshi Nakamoto, is posted to a cryptography mailing list. It describes a chain of proof-of-work timestamps that lets strangers transact without a trusted third party.0.60Supreme Court Makes the TSMC 2nm Leak Sentences Final
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE55 days agoFocus Taiwan[1] (CNA[4]), 30 July 2026: 'The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by two former ... TSMC employees ... making their sentences final'; PTS[2] quotes the court's deputy spokesman on the ruling of the 30th. No time is given, so it is an all-day date.Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.0.60NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Debuts in MLPerf Inference v6.1
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoUkraine's Chornobyl NPP states it accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter into operation on 8 November 2017 (chnpp.gov.ua[2]).Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.0.59OpenAI Retires 4 Transcription Models
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 156 daysOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-08-26, gives the shutdown date as 26 February 2027. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 26 February 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize.0.58- 0.58
Codd Publishes A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650, Harry Road, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95120, United StatesIBM
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE56.2 years agoThe paper's own header gives the issue and no day: Communications of the ACM, "Volume 13 / Number 6 / June, 1970". A month with no day is estimated at that month's last day.[1]Ted Codd's paper in Communications of the ACM proposes storing data as relations queried by predicate logic, independent of how it is laid out on disk. It is the founding document of the relational database and of SQL.0.58DeepMind Publishes the AlphaFold 2 Paper
DeepMind, Handyside Street, King's Cross, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, N1C 4BP, United KingdomDeepMind
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE5.2 years agoNature's[1] own page for the article gives citation_online_date 2021/07/15 and shows "15 July 2021", and Wikipedia[2][3] says the same: "On 15 July 2021, the AlphaFold 2 paper was published in Nature as an advance access publication alongside open source software and a searchable database of species proteomes." The print issue is dated August 2021.Nature publishes Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, alongside open-source code and a database of predicted proteomes. Protein structure prediction stops being a bottleneck for drug discovery.0.58
