Thursday, October 8, 2026
Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit
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Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit

Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Alex E. Proimos) Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and enterprise network on the planet. Open-source developers quickly released an update that patched the flaw and urged all users to install it immediately.…

A potential hangup for quantum computing: Cosmic rays
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A potential hangup for quantum computing: Cosmic rays

Enlarge / Google's Sycamore processor. (credit: Google) Recently, when researchers were testing error correction on Google's quantum processor, they noted an odd phenomenon where the whole error-correction scheme would sporadically fail badly. They chalked this up to background radiation, a combination of cosmic rays and the occasional decay of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope. It…