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US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms

“These strategic quantum technology investments will build on our domestic industry, creating thousands of high-paying American jobs while advancing American quantum capabilities,” he added. The move is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration to intervene in the market, offering grants to companies in strategic sectors, such as semiconductors and critical… Read More: US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum… »

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the Browser Fetch programming interface, a standard that allows long videos and other large files to be downloaded in the background.… Read More: Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users »

In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other sensitive CISA assets” exposed in a public GitHub repo since at least November 2025. The now-offline public repo—named, somewhat aspirationally, “Private-CISA”—was brought to Krebs’ attention by… Read More: In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in… »

Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse. It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments… Read More: Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections »

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

During a call with investors on Wednesday night, Cisco executives discussed the layoffs further, with CFO Mark Patterson saying, “This was really not a savings-driven restructure,” according to a transcript of the call. “Things are moving incredibly fast right now,” he said. “And this is more realigning from an already strong base, as you’re seeing… Read More: Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same… »

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Both privilege escalation vulnerabilities stem from bugs in the kernel’s handling of page caches stored in memory, allowing untrusted users to modify them. They target caches in networking and memory-fragment handling components. Specifically, CVE-2026-43284 attacks the esp4 and esp6 () processes, and CVE-2026-43500 zeroes in on rxrpc. Last week’s CopyFail exploited faulty page caching in… Read More: Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks »

Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline on Thursday after identifying unauthorized… Read More: Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals »

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have “almost no false positives”

As noted earlier, Mozilla’s characterization of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery as a game changer has been met with massive, vocal skepticism in many quarters. Critics initially scoffed when Mozilla didn’t obtain CVE designations for any of the 271 vulnerabilities. Like many developers, however, Mozilla doesn’t obtain CVE listings for internally discovered security bugs. Instead, they are… Read More: Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have “almost no… »

Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

The timer_stop function also has the job of converting the timer into a human-readable format, and it’s probably messier than it needs to be. I’m no developer, though, so this is what Past Lee settled on after a few hours of searching through examples. Doing it in fish for folks like me That’s for bash… Read More: Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out… »

Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

One of the follow-on payloads pushed to about a dozen organizations was what Kaspersky described as a “minimalistic backdoor.” It has the ability to execute commands, download files, and run shellcode payloads in memory—making the infection harder to detect. Kaspersky said that it observed a more complex backdoor dubbed QUIC RAT, installed on a single… Read More: Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain… »