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🏆 Applied Quantum's The Quantum Minute named Best Podcast Series of 2025! The context makes this win especially significant. The podcast is produced by Cybercrime Magazine, a powerhouse in cybersecurity media with a portfolio of leading podcasts. For a quantum-focused show to…

The ability to reset a qubit at will is critical for scaling quantum computing. Our team has now shown this can be done with a dynamic range of more than four orders of magnitude. In the RESET OFF spot, the qubit maintains hundreds of microseconds of coherence, while in the RESET…

France is accelerating its quantum edge - doubling Alice & Bob's team to 200, forging Franco-German pacts, and advancing crypto protocols with optical memory. Europe's not just catching up; it's increasingly leading in policy, business, and research. #QuantumTech #EUFuture…

📡 Comcast goes quantum. Partnering with @DWaveSys & @ClassiqTech, they’ve launched a new Quantum Lab to battle broadband traffic surges with real-time quantum optimization. Streaming, gaming, ChatGPT — they’re prepping for it all. #Comcast #DWAVE #Classiq Read more 👇

In our last post, we shared the preliminary results of 1-hour bit-flip lifetime for our cats! 🐱 To put that in perspective, that’s millions of times longer than the previous lifetimes achieved on superconducting chips. But why do long-lived qubits matter for quantum? As…

A single day with 4 breakthrough quantum tech developments - each with the potential to accelerate the arrival of Q-Day. That’s exactly what happened on Sept 24–25. I break it all down in the first issue of The Quantum Observer: quantumobserver.com/p/quantums-wil… #QuantumComputing #PQC…

What a week for quantum tech! Qubits leaping ahead of schedule, Caltech scaling to 6,100, HSBC finding real quantum advantage, NIST issuing new PQC guidance - and more. I unpack it all in the first edition of The Quantum Observer: quantumobserver.com/p/quantums-wil… #QuantumComputing…

The latest from the lab, just preliminary results, but they're juicy...🛡🐾 Everything is in our blogpost linked below! Last year we achieved a bit-flip lifetime of over 7 minutes, the longest in the world for superconducting qubits. Since then, we’ve been optimizing our cats…

We are delighted to share our new paper on Nature: Low-Overhead Transversal Fault Tolerance for Universal Quantum Computation buff.ly/RM9S3zd I

Bottom line: has anyone come close to cracking RSA-2048 with quantum? Not really – it’s still a theoretical threat, not a today threat. The “48-bit factoring” hype taught us two things: (1) some creative hybrid approaches might reduce the qubit requirements a bit, but (2) claims…

Don’t rely on manual, interview-based cryptographic inventories – they’re usually incomplete and give a false sense of security. Many orgs start by sending spreadsheets for teams to list crypto usage; it feels like progress but often misses hidden crypto in code, libraries, and…

The race for quantum advantage is as much about brains as qubits. Companies and governments are scrambling to attract and train quantum specialists. We’re seeing quantum computing courses, hackathons, even high-school outreach pop up. This article highlights creative solutions:…

So what problems are quantum computers actually good at? Google’s 2019 “quantum supremacy” experiment was a stunt (53 qubits did in 200 seconds what they claimed a supercomputer would need 10,000 years for). But beyond bragging rights, quantum computers shine in specific areas:…

Key point: don’t rely on just asking people where crypto is used – they won’t know all of it. Crypto is in so many layers (OS, apps, dependencies) that only a thorough, tool-assisted approach works. This guide even suggests a project plan (prep → scope → tool selection → pilot…

Quantum computing is being called the “skeleton key” of the digital world – a master key that could unlock nearly all of today’s encrypted data. In other words, a sufficiently powerful quantum computer poses a universal cyber threat more serious than anything before. Boards and…

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. The 2022 claim of factoring 48-bit RSA with a small quantum computer (using Schnorr’s lattice algorithm + QAOA) was extraordinary. By early 2025, that approach hadn’t been replicated at larger scale, and some flaws/limitations…

You can’t secure what you can’t see. Thankfully, a growing ecosystem of tools (from IBM’s CBOM framework to startups like SandboxAQ’s scanners) can map out all your organization’s cryptography. This article surveys leading cryptographic inventory solutions – static code…

The global race in quantum tech has very different playbooks. China: government-driven, massive state funding (>50% of global public quantum spend) – leading in papers & patents, building national labs and quantum satellites. US: market-driven, VC and Big Tech lead, far more…

Boards: quantum risk isn’t just a tech problem – it’s a governance issue. Regulators increasingly hold boards accountable for cyber risks, and that extends to quantum threats. A future quantum breach could lead to major liability. Smart executives are asking their CISOs today:…

CBOM (Cryptography Bill of Materials) is the new buzzword. Think SBOM but for encryption. IBM’s approach uses static analysis to list all algorithms/keys (your CBOM) and dynamic monitoring to see them in action. Why does it matter? Because to migrate to #PQC, you first need a…