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

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

Imagine a world where the locks protecting your most sensitive information—your financial records, medical history, or even national security secrets—can be effortlessly picked. This is the looming ...

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI helping speed the way.

After research from Google suggested a potential threat to some cryptocurrencies, tokens like QRL and Cellframe (CEL) saw ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...

A 2029 Deadline for Encryption — The Breakthrough That Changed the Clock Recent findings from Caltech and Oratomic indicate that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer could be built with as ...

AI advancements have reduced the requirements for quantum computers to break modern encryption, accelerating the need for ...

Just this past month, both Google’s Quantum AI team and a Cal Tech startup named Oratomic both produced papers that stated ...

Quantum computing is progressing toward fault-tolerant systems using logical qubits, while post-quantum cryptography emerges ...

While post-quantum security standards and technical solutions are rapidly advancing, Quantus’ Chris Smith argues that Bitcoin ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...