IBM links two 120-qubit Nighthawk processors with four superconducting cables

IBM links two 120-qubit Nighthawk processors with four superconducting cables

Analysis: Science & Technology — 02 November 2026 IBM links two 120-qubit processors with four superconducting cables IBM Research has joined two 120-qubit Nighthawk R1 superconducting processors with four separate quantum links, each an 80-centimeter aluminum cable installed after both chips were already mounted in a cryostat. Across the links, quantum states transferred with an … Read more

Binance covers $6.3 billion North Korea hack as bitcoin holds near $77,000

Binance covers $6.3 billion North Korea hack as bitcoin holds near $77,000

Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 31 October 2026 Binance covers $6.3 billion hack tied to North Korea as bitcoin holds near $77,000 Attackers drained an estimated $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets on Thursday, the largest crypto theft on record. About 18,270 bitcoin, worth roughly $1.4 billion, was split into 19 wallets that cannot be … Read more

French school riots spark Europe youth protests as Serbia students oust Vucic

French school riots spark Europe youth protests as Serbia students oust Vucic

Analysis: Europe — 31 October 2026 Youth protests spread across Europe after French school riots All over Europe, young people have taken to the streets. France’s student protests drew the most attention after they descended into rioting, looting and the torching of public buildings. In recent weeks there have also been demonstrations, some violent, in … Read more

Technion 3D map finds 41 percent of nearby interstellar gas unstable

Technion 3D map finds 41 percent of nearby interstellar gas unstable

Analysis: Science & Technology — 31 October 2026 3D map finds 41 percent of nearby interstellar gas in an unstable state A team at the Technion combined a 4,000-light-year dust-density map with unpublished ultraviolet-heating data and found that 27 percent of the local interstellar medium is cold, 32 percent is warm, and 41 percent sits … Read more

Binance $6.3 billion hack blamed on North Korea as bitcoin falls to $76400

Binance $6.3 billion hack blamed on North Korea as bitcoin falls to $76400

Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 30 October 2026 Binance hack drains $6.3 billion as bitcoin falls to $76,400 Binance reported a Thursday security incident with an estimated $6.3 billion impact, the largest crypto theft on record. Bitcoin fell to an overnight low of $76,400, its weakest since Sept. 18, then traded near $77,350. Crypto futures … Read more

Christine Lagarde to step down as ECB president after rate hold

Christine Lagarde to step down as ECB president after rate hold

Analysis: Europe — 30 October 2026 Healey’s first Budget soothes gilt markets as Burnham defers fiscal rupture Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget was a holding operation, not the “circuit breaker” Prime Minister Andy Burnham had advertised. The largest household item is another energy-bill subsidy, assessed by council-tax band, plus about £100 for some 20 million … Read more

UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable challenging dark energy

UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable challenging dark energy

Analysis: Science & Technology — 30 October 2026 UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable, challenging dark energy A UC Davis team reports in Proceedings of the Royal Society A that Friedmann spacetimes, the backbone of the Lambda-CDM expansion model, are unstable to radial perturbations at both small and large scales. Blake Temple and colleagues … Read more