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A team from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Stony Brook, and Quantinuum showed that non-Abelian anyons — long considered a theoretical 'dark horse' for quantum computing — can execute a complete set of operations on a real 54-qubit processor, published this month in Nature.
Two GitHub Actions disabled during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack were silently re-enabled on September 16. Their malicious release tags were never cleaned up, meaning any workflow referencing them ran the credential-stealing payload for over a week before GitHub disabled them again.
For the first time in its history, GrapheneOS will run on a phone that isn't a Google Pixel. The Motorola Signature 27, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, will ship with pre-installed support for the privacy-hardened Android variant.
Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250M Series D led by Pershing Square for its removable Layer 7 brain-computer interface — already used in 100+ patient procedures across 18 hospitals, unlike Neuralink's permanent implants.
A D.C. Circuit appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk' over its refusal to enable autonomous weapons and surveillance uses of Claude — splitting with a California judge who called the same designation illegal a month earlier.
TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and roll out teen safety features — a 2-hour daily cap, midnight-to-6am blackout, and private-by-default accounts — settling a youth mental health suit days before trial.
The Surface Pro 12" starts at $1,149 and the Surface Laptop 13" at $1,199, both with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus delivering 60% faster graphics and 95% faster on-device AI. On sale October 13.
Bitget says attackers compromised a backend wallet system on September 24, making off with $351.6 million in ETH, XRP, BNB, AVAX, and stablecoins — the largest crypto heist of 2026.
Akamai will provide distributed cloud infrastructure to handle Anthropic's growing compute workloads, while Anthropic receives warrants for roughly 5% of Akamai's stock, tied to how much of the expanded deal it eventually commits to.
A prototype satellite carrying four Tensor Processing Units launches October 1st aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, testing whether solar-powered orbital data centers could one day scale AI compute beyond what Earth's grid can support.
Security firm Gambit recovered the attacker's staging server, reconstructing a campaign that used Hermes, Strix, and Cairn — none built as malware — to compromise a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, and dozens more, for under $18,000 total.
The Standards Authority for Frontier AI, modeled after FINRA, would run third-party safety testing and incident reporting for frontier models — filling a gap after the companies' public-private regulatory push stalled.