Alan Turing’s Lost Papers Saved from Shredder, Fetch $625K at Auction

A dusty filing cabinet bound for disposal at a UK school contained:

🧮 Turing’s handwritten notes on early computer theory
💣 WWII-era equations possibly linked to codebreaking
📜 Previously unknown essays on AI ethics

“These rewrite the history of computing,” said Christie’s specialist James Hyslop. The buyer donated them to the Bletchley Park Museum, where they’ll be displayed alongside the Enigma machine.