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Q-Day Knowledge Center - Your complete guide to understanding, forecasting, and preparing for quantum decryption ...

Quantum Hardware Companies and Roadmaps Comparison

With so many quantum hardware roadmaps landing recently, I’ve updated my running comparison of the ...

Getting Started With Quantum Readiness and PQC Migration

Getting Started With Quantum Readiness and PQC Migration ...

India’s Task Force Releases Quantum‑Safe Roadmap with 2027–2029 Migration Timeline for CII

India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) published the “Implementation of Quantum Safe Ecosystem in India – Report of the Task Force.” This report, produced by a national Task Force ...

CISA Draws the Line: The Product Category Advisory & The End of Legacy Procurement

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a definitive advisory titled "Product Categories for Technologies Use Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards." This document, mandated by Executive Order 14306 (June 2025), fundamentally ...

G7’s Post‑Quantum Roadmap: Preparing the Financial Sector for a Quantum-Resilient Future

The G7 Cyber Expert Group (CEG) - an international team of cybersecurity authorities co-chaired by the U.S. Treasury and the Bank of England - issued a landmark roadmap for the ...

BIS Project Leap Phase 2 – PQC in Real-World Payment Systems

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Eurosystem published the results of Project Leap Phase 2, a massive technical trial testing PQC on the TARGET2 payment system (the Real-Time Gross ...

QuantWare’s “10,000‑qubit chip” headline: a real scaling bet – and why it still doesn’t mean Q‑Day

Dutch startup QuantWare has announced VIO-40K™, a new 3D packaging architecture designed to build superconducting quantum processors with up to 10,000 qubits on a single device. This represents roughly a ...

D-Wave Targets U.S. Government With New Quantum Unit

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has launched a dedicated business unit to accelerate quantum adoption across U.S. government agencies. Led by newly appointed VP Jack Sears Jr., a defense contracting veteran, the ...

Danish Photonics Startup Sparrow Quantum Raises $32M

Sparrow Quantum, a spin-out from the Niels Bohr Institute, has closed a €27.5 million (~$32 million) Series A round - the largest quantum-tech investment in the Nordic region to date. The funding, ...

Linking Two Quantum Networks

A new paper in Nature Photonics by Natalia Herrera Valencia et al. (2025) reports a prototype quantum network that connects two previously separate networks into a single eight-user system. In ...

White House “Genesis Mission” Links Supercomputers, AI & Quantum

The White House has launched the Genesis Mission, an ambitious Department of Energy initiative to integrate America’s top supercomputers, AI systems, quantum computers, and scientific instruments into a unified "discovery ...

Quantum Funding Surge: Firgun Ventures’ $70 M Quantum Tech VC Round

Investor confidence in quantum technology is reaching new heights, as evidenced by London-based Firgun Ventures announcing a $70 million first close of its new quantum-focused venture fund. Firgun’s fund, which is ...

Jülich Simulates a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer on an Exascale Supercomputer

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have fully simulated a universal 50-qubit quantum computer using Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER. This achievement, requiring on the order of 2 petabytes of memory, breaks ...

IBM and Cisco Want to Network Fault‑Tolerant quantum computers

IBM and Cisco’s joint announcement this week is easy to misread as another “quantum + internet” headline. It isn’t. The two companies are laying out a step‑by‑step program to turn ...

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