Quantum Computing News, PQC News, Quantum Security News & Commentary
What’s Happening in Quantum — and What It Means
Inside the DoW Post-Quantum Strategy: The Defense Half of Trump’s PQC Mandate
Released a day after two quantum executive orders, the Pentagon's first PQC strategy covers the National Security Systems that EO 14412 carves out. The same 2030 and 2031 dates appear in both, but they don't mean the same thing ...
Trump Signs PQC Executive Order with Hard 2030 and 2031 Deadlines for Federal Migration
Executive Order sets hard federal PQC migration deadlines for 2030 and 2031, extends compliance to contractors through FAR amendments, and orders CISA to define cryptographic bill of materials standards. The timeline compression I predicted a month ago is now signed policy ...
Trump Signs Executive Order Launching National Quantum Computer Build and Updating Quantum Strategy
Executive Order launches a national effort to build the first quantum computer capable of transformative scientific discovery, directs three quantum sensor projects for fielding by September 2028, and orders an updated National Quantum Strategy within 180 days ...
AIX Global Innovations Claims Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) on Rented Hardware. Their Own Paper Says Otherwise.
AIX Global Innovations claims FTQC on rented IBM hardware at one physical qubit per logical qubit. Their own paper reveals they operate at code distance 1, which by definition corrects zero errors. Here is what the paper actually says ...
Quantum Snake Oil Is Flooding the News Cycle — and the Industry Is Letting It Happen
Three extraordinary quantum claims in two weeks, none peer-reviewed, all tied to commercial events. The quantum industry's credibility problem is accelerating, and the people paying the price are the enterprises trying to make real migration decisions ...
France’s ANSSI Will Block PQC-Free Products From Certification Starting 2027
ANSSI will stop certifying security products without post-quantum cryptography from 2027. France's de facto procurement gate mirrors the CNSA 2.0 timeline and adds regulatory pressure for vendors across Europe's supply chain ...
Europe’s Quantum Sovereignty Problem: The Right Diagnosis, the Wrong Prescription
The EU's tech sovereignty package names quantum as a strategic priority. But its instruments remain calibrated for research, not for the industrial scaling that sovereignty requires ...
QuEra Announces Libra: 256 Logical Qubits on Amazon Braket by 2028
QuEra's Libra targets 256 error-corrected logical qubits and a one-in-a-million error rate on Amazon Braket by 2028. Every building block has been demonstrated in peer-reviewed research. This is either the most credible fault-tolerance roadmap in quantum computing, or the most specific one to miss its ...
America Just Made the Case for Quantum Sovereignty
Washington ordered two of the most capable AI models offline for every customer on the planet, and it took hours. I keep getting asked why the world wants its own quantum stack. Here is the cleanest answer I have ...
NIST Begins Wiring Post-Quantum Cryptography Into Federal PIV Credentials
NIST published working drafts that would add ML-DSA and ML-KEM support to the federal Personal Identity Verification standards. The dual-stack approach preserves existing classical credentials while adding PQC key references, certificate containers, and data objects for incremental deployment ...
PQC Migration Framework v2.0 Released: What Changed, Why It Matters, and a Note on Attribution
The PQC migration problem shifted from "how do we prepare?" to "how do we deploy?" between March and June 2026. Version 2.0 of the Applied Quantum PQC Migration Framework responds with the operational depth that no other published methodology provides ...
Let’s Encrypt Commits to Merkle Tree Certificates for Post-Quantum HTTPS
The world's largest certificate authority has committed to Merkle Tree Certificates as its post-quantum path. With 54% of all public TLS certificates, Let's Encrypt's decision effectively sets the migration timeline for the entire web ...
IonQ Demonstrates qLDPC Breakeven on Trapped Ions — and the Flexibility Argument Just Got Harder to Ignore
IonQ's 40-ion trapped-ion device runs nine different error-correcting codes with zero hardware changes and hits breakeven on qLDPC codes — beating the only superconducting comparison by up to 9×. The real story is what this means for the qubit-efficient architectures the field is betting on ...
Atom Computing Demonstrates Quantum Error Correction With Toric Code, a First for Neutral Atoms
Atom Computing's toric code demonstration is the first sustained quantum error correction on a neutral-atom platform, running 90 syndrome extraction rounds with continuous atom reloading ...
Bernstein Demonstrates ML-DSA Key Recovery in Under One Second, Argues Solo Deployment Damages Security
Daniel J. Bernstein provides the first working attack demos against ML-DSA implementation bugs, recovers equivalent secret keys in under one second, and builds a quantitative case that solo ML-DSA deployment damages security compared to hybrid Ed25519+ML-DSA ...
