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A Man with a Gun Ran Through the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The Aftermath Was Predictable.

Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from California, ran through a metal detector at the Washington Hilton — the venue of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and fired one or two rounds before being shot and taken down. The Secret Service extracted the Vice President in seconds. Trump was flanked and removed in twenty. By any operational measure, the protection apparatus worked. By any other measure, someone with a gun got into the same building as the president at a nationally televised event.

Quantum computers are halfway to breaking encryption

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Two research teams published findings saying we’re closer than anyone expected. One estimate puts the current largest quantum machine at more than halfway to the size needed to crack the encryption that secures basically everything online.

“Just around the corner” is relative. But this moved from “eventual theoretical problem” to “timeline question” faster than most people were tracking.

What happens to all the data that’s been harvested now, to be decrypted later? That’s the uncomfortable part of this.