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Cassian Holt

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IonQ just opened a 22,000-square-foot quantum R&D lab in Boulder, Colorado — semiconductor ion trap chips set to power the company’s first commercial machine by year-end

The Department of Energy just asked industry to deliver a fault-tolerant quantum computer with 150 to 250 logical qubits by 2028 — the federal race to commercial scale begins

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

Huawei just unveiled a “Tau Scaling Law” at IEEE in Shanghai — a proposed replacement for Moore’s Law built on 3D chip stacking instead of shrinking transistors

A data-breach wave hit five firms on the same day — Grupo Premier, GS Yuasa Lithium Power, Advanced Psychiatry Associates, Alpine Aerotech, and American Battery Factory

Amazon just inked a deal to buy Globalstar — the satellite operator behind Apple’s iPhone Emergency SOS — for about $11.6 billion, pending FCC approval

ULA’s Atlas V finally launched Amazon Leo 7 on Friday from Cape Canaveral — 29 satellites going up, tying the heaviest payload the rocket has ever flown

Q-CTRL and IBM just hit a 3,000x speedup simulating the Fermi-Hubbard model on 120 qubits — the first practical quantum advantage demonstrated this year

The FAA is still grounding Starship while SpaceX hunts down what killed Booster 19 during Flight 12’s hard landing in the Gulf

DuckDuckGo’s U.S. app installs jumped 18% week-over-week as backlash against Google’s AI-heavy search overhaul keeps growing

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

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