Quantum Computing News, PQC News, Quantum Security News & Commentary
What’s Happening in Quantum — and What It Means
A Peer-Reviewed CRYPTO 2026 Paper Just Gave ML-KEM’s Foundation a New Quantum Target
Wen and Zheng prove Module-LWE quantum-polynomially equivalent to a structured dihedral problem and reduce it to EDCP. The result maps ML-KEM's mathematical foundation into territory three research groups are actively probing with quantum algorithms ...
Daniel Simon Claims a Polynomial-Time Quantum Algorithm for Lattice Problems. And a CRYPTO 2026 Paper Connects It to ML-KEM
Daniel Simon has posted a preliminary polynomial-time algorithm for the Dihedral Coset Problem, and a peer-reviewed CRYPTO 2026 result supplies the Module-LWE link. Neither one breaks ML-KEM. Together they change the risk conversation ...
D-Wave’s First Gate-Model Nature Paper: Why Error Structure Can Beat Error Rate
D-Wave's first gate-model Nature paper demonstrates a dual-rail erasure qubit entangling gate that preserves the noise hierarchy needed for efficient error correction. Simplified surface-code simulations show why structured errors can offset a higher aggregate error rate ...
Allianz Quantum Risk Report Gets the Capital Thesis Right and the Cryptanalysis Wrong
Allianz Research published a technically serious quantum risk assessment for finance. Its capital-flow analysis is unusually effective. Its cryptanalytic chart and threat model need corrections that matter for anyone using it to plan ...
First External Operators Apply to Chrome’s Post-Quantum Certificate Test Program
TrustAsia filed the first known CA application for Chrome's Merkle Tree Certificate test root store. The filing implements two recently standardized mechanisms from the IETF PLANTS draft, adding concrete evidence that post-quantum web PKI infrastructure is moving from draft to deployment ...
Mitten Codes Put 195 Logical Qubits in 975 Physical Qubits, Complete with Fault-Tolerant Processor Design
Caltech and Oratomic introduce mitten codes, a family of 20%-rate qLDPC processor codes. In simulations, a [[540, 108, 18]] block produced two failures across 15 billion surgery quops at 0.1% physical error rate, consistent with an expected processing capacity of order 10 billion quops ...
HKMA Gives Hong Kong Banks a 2.3 Out of 10 on Quantum Readiness, Targets Full Migration by 2030
HKMA's first Quantum Preparedness Index scores Hong Kong's banking sector PQC readiness at 2.3 out of 10. Most respondents remain at an early stage, while the regulator targets full sectoral readiness by 2030 ...
87% of Organizations Are Pursuing PQC. Only 7% Have Deployed It.
DigiCert's second annual PQC survey finds at-scale certificate deployment barely moved in a year. The barrier profile now points to execution, not awareness, and that tells us more than the headline number ...
HRL Built a Silicon Quantum Processor That Controls Itself Inside the Cryostat. IBM Agreed to Buy the Lab.
HRL Laboratories put a quantum processor, its controller, and a superconducting cable inside a single cryostat. The system ran error correction by itself. Eight days later, IBM announced it was buying HRL ...
MAS Targets Quantum Resilience for FIs by End of Decade
Singapore's central bank will issue supervisory expectations with progressive milestones for financial institutions' quantum-safe migration. The stated aim: quantum resilience before the end of this decade ...
Economist Quantum Article: Best in Media, Still Wrong
The Economist's July 2026 quantum primer is the best mainstream coverage I've seen. I still found errors on how quantum computing works, what Shor's algorithm threatens, and which data sources deserve trust. If even The Economist gets this wrong, everyone should check their sources ...
IBM Declares a “Quantum Advantage Era.” The Three Papers Make Different Claims.
IBM coordinated three quantum advantage announcements. The validation advances are real, but the papers make materially different claims ...
Neutral-Atom Roadmap Charts a Path to Quantum Utility
A multi-institutional roadmap for neutral-atom quantum computing puts cryptanalysis on its convergence chart. Here is what the data and the assumptions actually show ...
EY Installed a Quantum Computer in Toronto. Nobody Will Say What It Is.
The regulation behind Europe's €30 billion AI Gigafactories also rewired the EU's quantum strategy. The institutional convergence has consequences that the AI headlines buried ...
Europe’s Biggest AI Sovereignty Bet Had a Quantum Strategy Buried Inside It
The regulation behind Europe's €30 billion AI Gigafactories also rewired the EU's quantum strategy. The institutional convergence has consequences that the AI headlines buried ...
Pure ML-KEM for TLS 1.3 Reaches IETF Last Call
The IESG is taking final comments on standalone ML-KEM key establishment for TLS 1.3 until August 13, after three Working Group Last Calls, a contested consensus determination, and a chairs' refusal to release the numbers behind it ...
AI Broke a NIST Candidate. Not Your Encryption
Claude Mythos Preview recovered HAWK-256 challenge keys and improved a 13-year-old reduced-round AES result. ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon, and production AES are untouched. The real shift is the cost of finding flaws ...
Bitcoin’s Institutions Take On the Quantum Security Bill
Nine institutions pledged $15 million over three years for Bitcoin security, with quantum readiness the first workstream. Galaxy separately announced up to $5 million in developer grants for post-quantum work ...
