Add article: Chrome 153 starts a two-week release cycle, and Google says most enterprises don't need Extended Stable

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New article drafted from an approved content pitch in #_content-news-digest, covering Chrome 153's move to a two-week stable release cycle and Google's guidance steering most enterprise customers off the slower Extended Stable track.

Checklist for submitter

• Changes file added for user-visible changes in changes/, orbit/changes/ or ee/fleetd-chrome/changes.
  See Changes files for more information.

Testing

• QA'd all new/changed functionality manually (reviewed against fleet-article-formatting and content-style skills; verified links, category value, and description length)

Title selection

Checked the last 10 merged/open PRs from this pipeline: 7 of 10 use the "What X means for Y" template, and the last 3 in a row use either that template or a single-clause declarative claim naming the reader's stakes. To break that pattern, I brainstormed 5 candidates with distinct structures:

1. "Chrome updates every two weeks now — is Extended Stable still worth keeping?" (question)
2. "Chrome's stable cycle just dropped from four weeks to two" (plain declarative fact)
3. "Chrome 153 starts a two-week release cycle, and Google says most enterprises don't need Extended Stable" (compound clause with "and") — selected
4. "Rebuild your Chrome patch calendar around two-week releases, not four" (imperative)
5. "Two-week Chrome releases, an eight-week Extended Stable track, one patch calendar to rebuild" (three-item list fragment)

Picked #3 over runner-up #4: it leads with the concrete version number and cadence change, then surfaces the more surprising part of the news, Google steering enterprises away from the "safer" Extended Stable track, which is the detail a patch/asset-management reader would want most. #4 is actionable but reads as generic release-cadence advice that could apply to any vendor's schedule change.

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