What happened
The U.S. military last night said it had “conducted self-defense strikes” on Iranian missile sites and “boats attempting to emplace mines,” interrupting a weekslong ceasefire after a weekend of signals about an imminent peace deal. Earlier yesterday, President Donald Trump said talks on ending the war were “proceeding nicely,” while Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said a “large portion of the issues” had been resolved but no “agreement is on the verge of being signed.” 

Who said what
The emerging “contours of a deal” indicate that Trump’s “mixture of threats and limited military operations” haven’t “decisively shifted” Iran’s negotiating stance, The New York Times said. After Republican hawks “slammed the contours of the deal,” The Wall Street Journal said, Trump “expanded the scope of his diplomatic ambition,” saying Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim countries must normalize relations with Israel as part of any deal. Trump posted Saturday that he was “mandatorily requesting” those countries “immediately” sign the Abraham Accords, and yesterday added that all of them “simultaneously” signing the accords “should be mandatory.”

What next?
Trump’s normalization push could give him a way to cast any limited deal “as a larger regional success story instead of a climbdown,” the Journal said, but it is “highly unlikely to be heeded” by the Saudis or Qataris, given Israel’s intransigence on Palestinian rights.

What happened
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) and other lawmakers yesterday joined a protest in Newark outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, where complaints of rotten and spoiled food and inadequate medical care prompted detainees to go on a hunger strike. Sherrill said her “request for access to Delaney Hall was formally denied this morning, raising serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view.” Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who was granted access, was caught in a cloud of tear gas fired by ICE agents in an armored vehicle and treated for “burning” eyes and throat, he told NJ.com.

Who said what
Protesters have gathered outside the privately run detention center since Friday to support the hunger strike. Tensions escalated after ICE moved strike leader Martin Soto to a different facility, allegedly to punish him. Lawmakers allowed access called the conditions disgusting and reiterated their calls for Delaney Hall’s closure. The Department of Homeland Security said the visits were “nothing more than a political stunt by New Jersey sanctuary politicians,” claiming “there is NO hunger strike at Delaney Hall.”

What next?
The 1,000-bed facility “has emerged as a focal point” in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, The New York Times said. “Nearly 50 ICE detainees have died since Trump’s return to office,” CNN said, in the “highest death toll in at least two decades.” 

A hypothetical doomsday involving quantum computing could be on the horizon, computer scientists have warned for decades. But cybersecurity experts are now racing against the clock after Google announced that this “Q-Day” could be here much sooner than originally anticipated.

Q-Day would arrive when quantum computers acquire “enough resources and stability to crack conventional cryptography,” said CNN. When that day arrives, it could spell disaster for millions of people’s private information, as “every financial transaction, medical file, email, location history and crypto wallet protected by today’s commonly used algorithms could be unlocked.”

Unlike conventional computers, quantum computers utilize “quantum-mechanical phenomena” that allow them to “perform calculations that are practically impossible for even the most powerful supercomputers today,” said Forbes. Experts believe these computers could eventually crack RSA cryptography, the algorithm of prime numbers that helps to safeguard encryption. Some fear this could be accomplished “not in billions of years, but in hours or days.”

It was previously believed that Q-Day was still far into the future, giving the tech world plenty of time to prepare new safeguards. But Google recently announced it believes the day could arrive as soon as 2029, which means that “governments, companies and other entities may have far less time to prepare,“ said CNN. 

Many companies are being urged to boost their cybersecurity initiatives as Q-Day’s unwelcome advent looms. Google is “pushing for a transition to post-quantum cryptography, or the use of new, quantum-resistant algorithms to secure data against future attacks,” said Barron’s.