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Policy & Sovereignty
Canada’s PQC Procurement Playbook: ITSM.00.501 Moves Post-Quantum From Strategy to Contract Language
10 Oct 2025 - The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s newly released ITSM.00.501 is the most procurement-ready PQC artifact Canada has published so far: it translates “migrate to PQC” into contract clauses that vendors can actually quote, negotiate, and commit…
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Policy & Sovereignty
FCA’s Latest Research Note Explores Quantum Computing in Financial Services
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a new Research Note titled “Quantum Computing Applications in Financial Services” authored by Charlie Markham (FCA) and Ross Grassie (formerly of the UK Quantum Software Lab). FCA Research Notes are designed to…
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Industry
Italy’s Largest Quantum Computer Built on Open Architecture Debuts in Naples
The University of Naples Federico II unveiled the country’s most powerful quantum computer - a 64-qubit system assembled using a revolutionary modular design. Powered by a Tenor quantum processing unit (QPU) from Dutch startup QuantWare, this machine now stands as…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Getting Started With Quantum Security and PQC Migration
Your complete roadmap to quantum-proofing your organization — from boardroom mandate to operational crypto-agility. This practitioner-curated Deep Dive series collects the PostQuantum.com articles you need to launch and run a quantum-readiness program, organized along the lifecycle most teams actually follow:…
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Quantum Ecosystem
The Fab’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Photonic Quantum Computing Wins
In February 2025, a team of more than ninety researchers published a paper in Nature describing something the photonic quantum computing community had been waiting a decade to see: a complete quantum photonic technology stack - single-photon sources, superconducting detectors,…
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Quantum Security & PQC
U.S. Federal Reserve Warns of Quantum Threat to Bitcoin
The U.S. Federal Reserve is sounding the alarm that future quantum computers could pose a serious threat to the security of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. In a new study titled “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later,” Fed analysts warn that once sufficiently powerful…
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Quantum Ecosystem
The Optical Table’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Wins
In September 2025, IonQ paid $1.075 billion for a company called Oxford Ionics that had built precisely one quantum computer. It wasn't the qubit count that justified the price tag. Oxford Ionics held fewer than two dozen qubits at the…
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Quantum Computing
Quantum MedBeds and Death Threats
I never write about current politics. This might be my first on this blog. In fact, for the sake of my own sanity, I’ve made a point of steering this blog and most of my day clear of politics and…
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Quantum Ecosystem
The Chandelier’s Hidden Supply Chain: Who Really Wins If Superconducting Quantum Computing Wins
In September 2025, Bluefors - the Finnish company whose cryogenic systems cool most of the world's superconducting quantum computers - signed a deal to buy up to ten thousand liters of helium-3 per year. The supplier? Interlune, a Seattle startup…
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Policy & Sovereignty
MAS and Partners Unveil QKD Sandbox Technical Report: Quantum Security in Financial Services
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), together with four major banks (DBS, HSBC, OCBC, UOB) and tech partners SPTel and SpeQtral, has released a technical report detailing the results of a pioneering Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) sandbox in the financial…
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Quantum Computing
Cisco’s Full-Stack Approach and the Road to Quantum Data Centers
Cisco took on an ambitious full-stack strategy to make distributed quantum computing a reality sooner than many expect. Instead of waiting for a single perfect quantum processor with millions of qubits, Cisco is building the hardware, software, and architecture needed…
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Research
Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement Can Slash a 20-Million-Year Learning Task Down to Minutes
A team led by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has published a milestone paper, “Quantum learning advantage on a scalable photonic platform,” in Science (Sept 25, 2025). Preprint arXiv:2502.07770. The work is the first proven quantum advantage using a…
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Research
Alice & Bob’s One-Hour “Cat Qubit” Breakthrough – What It Means for Quantum Computing and Q-Day
A new experiment from quantum computing startup Alice & Bob has set a remarkable milestone. In a recent blog post titled”Just Out of the Lab: A Cat Qubit That Jumps Every Hour,” the company revealed that one of its qubits…
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Policy & Sovereignty
FS-ISAC’s New Roadmap for Post-Quantum Migration in Finance
Financial industry CISOs have a new playbook for the post-quantum era. The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has published a position paper titled “The Timeline for Post-Quantum Cryptographic Migration,” offering a detailed roadmap for the financial sector’s…
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Research
Silicon Spin Qubits Achieve >99% Fidelity in 300‑mm Foundry Fabrication
The race toward large-scale quantum computing just hit a significant milestone. In a new Nature paper “Industry‑compatible silicon spin‑qubit unit cells exceeding 99% fidelity” (open access) a team from Diraq and imec reported that they achieved better than 99% gate…
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