In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a ...

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I did not enter quantum computing through a lab, a startup pitch or a cybersecurity briefing. I entered it through light. This is not a puff piece or a victory lap. It is simply the most honest ...

Right now, criminal and state-sponsored hackers are intercepting and storing encrypted data they cannot yet decode. Likely targets include everything from corporate secrets and medical records to ...

Quantum computing has occupied a peculiar place in the policy imagination: perpetually imminent, strategically important, and operationally vague. It has been featured in national strategies and ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough machine may be built much sooner than previously thought ...

A core assumption underpins the trillions of dollars secured on the blockchain: that today's cryptographic shields are effectively unbreakable. For years, this principle has been the bedrock of ...

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough by "distilling" light to eliminate the noise that prevents photonic quantum computers ...

There's a lot of hype about its promise, especially because it has this ability for increased processing speed and power," ...