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A legendary Super Mario 64 speedrun glitch revealed an invisible threat haunting modern computing: cosmic ray bit flips. These rare but catastrophic memory errors—caused by particles from deep space—have altered election results and threaten systems at scale. As data volumes explode, understanding and mitigating these 'single-event upsets' becomes critical for resilient engineering.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have shattered the world record for qubit operation accuracy, achieving error rates low enough to enable practical quantum error correction. This breakthrough reduces the overhead for fault-tolerant systems, potentially accelerating scalable quantum computers that solve real-world problems.