"Q-Day" is a scenario where "no more secrets" becomes a reality, as previously secure communications and data could be vulnerable to decryption by entities wielding quantum computational power (also known as "Quantum Supremacy").  Find a breakdown, analysis, and future scenarios here.   ..read more

The EU is to examine bloc-wide export controls in sensitive technology as part of its attempt to “de-risk” its relationship with China and other authoritarian regimes. The European Commission has identified four areas — semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology — in which to assess whether the bloc should ..read more

Signal has announced an upgrade to its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol to protect its users from encryption-breaking attacks through quantum computers. Although Quantum computers are not yet powerful enough to be perceived as a threat for public-key cryptography, this does not mean they will not become a one in the ..read more

Artificial intelligence is clearly the latest craze sweeping the technology industry, but an even bigger trend may be on the horizon in the form of quantum computing — provided it can solve troubling cybersecurity questions. Advances in quantum computing seem destined to humble today’s electronic chip-based supercomputers. These machines work on ..read more

For the first time, IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in the path towards useful quantum computing systems and software. IBM has published a paper in Nature that describes a breakthrough in Quantum ..read more

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new superconducting diode, a key component in electronic devices, that could help scale up quantum computers for industry use and improve the performance of artificial intelligence systems. Compared to other superconducting diodes, the researchers’ device is more energy efficient; can ..read more

Zapata Computing and L3Harris will be working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to explore quantum computing solutions for the Department of Defense (DOD) and other industries. The project involves developing hardware-agnostic benchmarks that will guide the practical application of quantum computing and how it can support broader industry applications.   The project will measure progress toward specific quantum computing challenges, such as: Creating new materials;  Simulating fluid dynamics;  Real-time machine learning; Engineering design optimizat ..read more

US President Joe Biden signed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act into law last week. The legislation is designed to secure the federal government’s systems and data against quantum-enabled data breaches. The law aims to get ahead of the trend before quantum computing reaches the point in which they are ..read more

Chatter on the cryptographic side of cryptocurrency has been growing over the past couple of years about the threat posed by quantum computing, an entirely new type of computer that would be many orders of magnitude more powerful than current ones — so powerful that many modern forms of encryption ..read more

Quantum computing has raised concerns about the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in recent years. For example, it is commonly assumed that very sophisticated quantum computers will one day be able to crack present-day encryption, making security a serious concern for users in the blockchain space. The SHA-256 cryptographic protocol ..read more