Illustration of a chip containing quantum bits, or qubits Pete Hansen/Shutterstock The effort to build truly useful quantum computers often comes down to making them bigger by adding qubits, the quantum bits that are the basic building blocks of these devices. But creating quantum chaos inside them could have the same effect – and let…
In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun), and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between. While we know that intermediate-mass black holes should…
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters The Federal Reserve’s inspector general is reviewing the Trump administration’s attempts to lay off nearly all Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees and cancel the agency’s…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump’s landmark tax bill would make the most prosperous Americans $12,000 richer each year, while wiping $1,600 off the disposable income of the nation’s poorest, Congress’s fiscal watchdog said on Thursday. Trump’s…
Jeff CarlisleJun 12, 2025, 11:30 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. AC Milan and United States men’s national team midfielder Christian Pulisic said that comments from former U.S. players criticizing him for opting to skip the Concacaf Gold Cup are “way out of line,” and he…
# Exploit Title: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 23H2 – Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Privilege Escalation # Date: 2025-05-05 # Exploit Author: Milad Karimi (Ex3ptionaL) # Contact: miladgrayhat@gmail.com # Zone-H: www.zone-h.org/archive/notifier=Ex3ptionaL # Tested on: Win x64 # CVE : CVE-2024-38193 #pragma once #include “ntstatus.h” #include “Windows.h” #include #pragma comment(lib, “ntdll.lib”) …
Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of California, Santa Barbara, engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence to observe and understand our universe. Laser-based measurement techniques,…
A 110-million-year-old fossil of the hell ant Vulcanidris cratensis Anderson Lepeco At more than 110 million years old, a fossil excavated in Brazil is the oldest undisputed ant fossil ever discovered. The finding adds to evidence that the first ants evolved on the supercontinent of Gondwana in the southern hemisphere before spreading across the rest…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The FTSE 100 index closed at a record high on Thursday, completing its recovery from a sharp decline earlier in the year sparked by US President Donald Trump’s global trade war. The UK’s main equity…
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said Labour needs to be “better” at telling the story of the working-class communities it represents. Speaking at a lunch for parliamentary journalists, he accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of being an “absolute parody” when he said he wanted to re-open coal mines in Wales. Reynolds said his grandfather…
