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 positive signals about an imminent peace deal. Earlier yesterday, President Donald Trump said talks on ending the war were “proceeding nicely.” An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson 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 framework indicates that Trump’s “mixture of threats and limited military operations” in Iran hasn’t “decisively shifted” Tehran’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 agreement. Trump posted yesterday that “it should be mandatory” for all of them to “simultaneously” sign the Abraham Accords. 

What next?
Trump’s Israel normalization push could give him a way to cast any peace deal “as a larger regional success story instead of a climbdown,” the Journal said. But it’s “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 outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, where detainees are on hunger strike amid complaints of rotten food and inadequate medical care. Sherrill said the Trump administration’s denial of her request for access to the Newark facility raised “serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view.” Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) (pictured above right), who did gain access, was caught in a cloud of tear gas and pepper spray fired by ICE agents in an armored vehicle outside the facility. 

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 granted access criticised the conditions as inhumane 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” and claimed “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. Nationally, “nearly 50 ICE detainees have died since Trump’s return to office,” CNN said.

Computer scientists have been warning for decades that a hypothetical doomsday involving quantum computing could be on the horizon. Now, cybersecurity experts are racing against the clock after Google recently 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 is now predicting that 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.