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CISA just added two Microsoft Defender flaws to the actively exploited list — every federal agency ordered to patch CVE-2026-41091 and CVE-2026-45498 by Wednesday

Microsoft and Quantinuum just created 12 highly accurate logical qubits — a milestone for fault-tolerant computing that turns thousands of noisy physical qubits into reliable ones

Atom Computing just demonstrated a 1,225-qubit neutral-atom system — optical tweezers arranging atoms in three-dimensional lattices on the road to 5,000 qubits by 2027

Microsoft just unveiled Majorana 1 — the first quantum chip built on a topological core that finally locks Majorana particles into reliable, scalable qubits

Engineers just built a compact terahertz quantum detector — shrinking a long-wavelength sensor that used to fill a lab into a device small enough for handheld scanners

A new room-temperature quantum device just used twisted light to entangle photons with electrons — clearing one of the biggest hurdles between quantum labs and real machines

Never text “STOP” back to a spam message — security researchers say the reply just confirms your number is live and routes you to a worse list

Seven apps quietly record audio through your phone in the background — here is how to shut every single one of them off

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

An autonomous bot running on Claude Opus just chained zero-days through GitHub Actions in the wild — poisoning Go init functions and branch names to seize remote code execution

Anthropic just filed paperwork to take itself public — a $965 billion valuation that puts the Claude maker ahead of OpenAI on the way to Wall Street

Microsoft just confirmed attackers are exploiting an Exchange Server zero-day to silently hijack inboxes — CVE-2026-42897 lets them rewrite emails and steal session tokens

Sysdig just documented the first AI agent that ran a full cyber intrusion start to finish — four pivots and a database drained in under an hour with no human at the keyboard

Never text “STOP” back to a spam message — security researchers say the reply just confirms your number is live

SpaceX just flew its 50th Starlink mission of 2026 — a Falcon 9 putting 24 more satellites into orbit from Vandenberg on Saturday morning

A supercomputer in Germany just simulated a 50-qubit quantum machine — shattering the 48-qubit world record that had stood since 2019

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