This Week in IT, Microsoft makes a significant breakthrough in the race to build commercially useful quantum computers, File Explorer gets cleaned up, and Russian hackers are targeting 2FA codes again.
🔗 Links and resources
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/
Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy - https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/windows_11_24h2_preview
Russian Hackers Use Device Code Phishing to Hijack Microsoft 365 Accounts - https://petri.com/russian-hackers-device-code-phishing-steal-emails/
Storm-2372 conducts device code phishing campaign - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/13/storm-2372-conducts-device-code-phishing-campaign/
⌚ Time stamps
00:00 - Start
00:59 - Microsoft Quantum Computing Breakthrough
06:16 - File Explorer clean up
10:05 - Russian hackers target 2FA codes