2026-07-02 Briefing

The U.S. government has taken direct equity stakes in 26 companies since January, deploying $23.9 billion across sectors including Intel (9.9%) and nine quantum computing firms. A Linux kernel 6.9 bug leaves LUKS disk-encryption keys in memory during suspend, exposing data to physical attackers. Meanwhile, QUALITY.md launched as an open format and CLI tool for holistic project quality evaluation,…