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The NSA still warns every smartphone user to disable one default setting most Americans leave on

Engineers at Illinois just stacked silicon transistors three layers deep — 625 per layer, matching standard chip performance and finally giving Moore’s Law a new path forward

The U.S. Space Force just handed SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to put eyes in low orbit hunting hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft

The Coinbase Cartel ransomware crew just hit Siveco, Openmind Networks, and Pragmatic Solutions in a single day — no encryption, just stolen data and threats to dump it

The Department of Commerce just awarded letters of intent for $2 billion to 9 quantum-computing firms — the biggest single federal push at solving fault tolerance

Anthropic’s Mythos model just flagged a pile of critical vulnerabilities in legacy systems — surfacing holes human auditors have walked past for years

Cybersecurity researchers just found that ChatGPT implicitly trusts the Markdown links around it — and hackers are already exploiting that trust for phishing

Boeing just cleared the FAA’s capstone review to build 47 737 MAX jets a month — the highest production rate since the door-plug crisis grounded the line

The FBI just warned every iPhone and Android user to audit foreign-developed apps — Chinese security laws could pull your contacts, location, and messages onto foreign servers

Android is now adding post-quantum cryptography by default — locking down your texts against computers that don’t exist yet

Researchers just showed solar storms could cut satellite comms and trigger a collision in less than three days — a new Kessler-style scenario no operator plans for

Starlink satellites just logged 144,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in six months — every 1.8 minutes a SpaceX spacecraft has to dodge something else in orbit

SpaceX just hit its 50th Starlink mission of the year before Memorial Day — more launches in five months than most countries manage in a decade

OpenAI is now exploring AI-first devices that could eliminate traditional apps altogether — a hardware push built to make ChatGPT the new phone

The next generation of flagship smartphones just crossed the 200 megapixel camera mark — stacking two periscope lenses to squeeze DSLR-quality zoom into a pocket

Engineers just pushed a single optical fiber past 1 million gigabits per second — fast enough to beam every movie ever made around the world in a minute

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