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Research
The 1,000-Qubit Ceiling That Probably Isn’t
21 Mar 2026 - A curious thing happened in cybersecurity Slack channels and LinkedIn threads over the last few weeks: security professionals who had been dragging their feet on post-quantum cryptography migration suddenly had a new reason to wait. A…
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Systems & Engineering
IBM’s Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Blueprint
IBM's reference architecture treats quantum processors as specialized compute offload engines within existing HPC infrastructure — and maps a decade-long evolution toward fully co-designed quantum-classical systems.
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Industry
Q-PAC Goes Live: The First U.S. Quantum Open Architecture System Went From Announcement to Fully Operational in Five Months
Five months from announcement to fully operational quantum computer. Elevate Quantum's Q-PAC system in Denver proves the Quantum Open Architecture model works — and raises hard questions about whether the monolithic approach to quantum computing can survive.
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Leadership
Science Confirms What Large Corporate Survivors Already Knew – Organizational Bullshit Makes You Worse at Your Job
Regular readers will know that organizational bullshit is a topic I've been fascinated by - and personally scarred by - for years. I wrote about it at length back in 2022, drawing on the foundational academic work by Frankfurt, Spicer,…
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Policy & Sovereignty
UK Commits £2 Billion to Quantum Technologies, Launches First-of-Its-Kind Procurement Programme
QuantWare's $178M Series B is the largest private round ever raised by a dedicated quantum processor company. With Intel Capital and IQT on board, the bet is clear: the quantum industry's future is modular, open, and manufactured at scale.
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Quantum Security & PQC
A New Algorithm Shrinks the Quantum Attack Surface for ECC
15 Mar 2026 - When Clémence Chevignard, Pierre-Alain Fouque, and André Schrottenloher submitted their latest paper to EUROCRYPT 2026, they already had a track record that the cryptographic community was watching closely. In 2024, the same team at INRIA Rennes…
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Research
Quantinuum Squeezes 94 Logical Qubits from 98 Physical — But What Does It Actually Mean?
10 Mar 2026 - Quantinuum researchers have demonstrated quantum computations using up to 94 error-detected logical qubits and 48 error-corrected logical qubits on the company's 98-qubit Helios trapped-ion quantum processor. The work, published as a pre-print on arXiv, reports "beyond…
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Quantum Systems Integration
Inside Quantum Computing’s Modular Revolution – Discussion with QuantWare’s CEO Matt Rijlaarsdam
Quantum computing is entering a new phase where scaling up isn’t just about qubit counts - it’s about how those qubits are built and integrated. A recent discussion with QuantWare’s CEO, Matt Rijlaarsdam, shed light on “quantum open architecture” (QOA)…
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Quantum Computing
China’s Quantum OS Play: Origin Pilot and the Battle for the Integration Layer
China's Origin Pilot isn't just another quantum SDK — it's a top-down systems integration layer that challenges the West's bottom-up approach to quantum open architecture.
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Industry
China Releases Freely Downloadable Quantum Operating System
China's Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co. has made its quantum operating system, Origin Pilot, available for free public download - a move that multiple sources describe as the first time a quantum computer OS has been offered for local deployment…
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Quantum Computing Companies
Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co.
Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co. (本源量子计算科技) is China's first and most prominent quantum computing startup, building a vertically integrated superconducting quantum computing platform that spans from chip fabrication through operating system to cloud delivery. Headquartered in Hefei, Anhui Province -…
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Quantum Security & PQC
The White House Just Released Its New National Cyber Strategy. It’s Not a Strategy.
7 Mar 2026 - On Friday afternoon - the traditional Washington burial ground for news you'd rather not have scrutinized - the White House released "President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America," the administration's long-delayed national cybersecurity strategy document. Originally expected…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Frameworks: A Definitive Survey Through March 2026
A comprehensive survey of every post-quantum cryptography migration framework published through March 2026 — from ETSI TR 103 619 and the Dutch PQC Migration Handbook to the PQCC Roadmap and NIST SP 1800-38. Each framework is assessed against the capabilities…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
No One Has Secretly Broken RSA-2048 or RSA-4096 — Here’s the Science
If someone tells you RSA-2048 or even RSA-4096 has been secretly cracked, they are either lying to you or have been lied to. There is no third option that is consistent with physics, engineering, the observable behavior of governments and…
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Quantum Sovereignty
Quantum Sovereignty & Geopolitics
Quantum technologies are leaving the lab and entering the machinery of national power — and "quantum sovereignty" is becoming a blunt strategic question: who can build, operate, trust, and control quantum capabilities under geopolitical stress, without being cut off? This…
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