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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The CRQC Scorecard: How Close Is Each Quantum Modality to Breaking Your Encryption?
Yesterday, two papers landed that set social media on fire. Google Quantum AI published a landmark resource estimate showing that fewer than 500,000 superconducting qubits could break Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography in under nine minutes. Hours later, a team from…
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China's Quantum Ambition
The Leapfrog Doctrine: How China Systematically Conquered Every Technology It Targeted
Almost fifteen years ago, I stood on the mezzanine floor of a manufacturing facility in Dongguan, staring into the dark. Literally. Below me, a sprawling production line hummed with the rhythmic, pneumatic hiss of assembly arms and the whine of…
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Quantum Computing
The Dark Horse: How Silicon Quietly Assembled Every Building Block for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
The quantum computing modality race has had a clear narrative for most of the past decade. Superconducting qubits were the frontrunners — Google's quantum supremacy demonstration in 2019, IBM's steadily growing processor roadmap, the first below-threshold surface code results in…
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Quantum Security & PQC
10,000 Qubits to Run Shor’s Algorithm
31 Mar 2026 - On the same day that Google Quantum AI published its landmark ECDLP-256 resource estimates showing fewer than 500,000 superconducting qubits could break cryptocurrency cryptography in minutes, a team from Oratomic, Caltech, and UC Berkeley quietly dropped…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Google Quantum AI Achieves 10x Reduction in Resources to Break Bitcoin’s Cryptography
31 Mar 2026 - Google Quantum AI has published a 57-page whitepaper demonstrating that the quantum resources needed to break the elliptic curve cryptography protecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and virtually every major cryptocurrency are roughly an order of magnitude smaller than…
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Quantum AI
The Quantum AI Taxonomy: Seven Things People Mean When They Say “Quantum AI” – and Why Confusing Them Costs Money
"Quantum AI" is not one thing. It spans at least seven distinct categories – from peer-reviewed gains in error correction to outright trading scams – and confusing them leads to bad investment, bad procurement, and bad security decisions. A taxonomy…
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Quantum Security & PQC
The U.S. Intelligence Community Just Put Quantum on Equal Footing with AI. And Expanded the Threat Definition
27 Mar 2026 - Every March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence publishes a document that most Americans will never read but that quietly shapes trillions of dollars in defense spending, intelligence priorities, and technology policy. The Annual…
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Quantum Computing
Three Bets on Silicon: Donor Qubits, Quantum Dots, and the Foundry Path Compared
When people say "silicon quantum computing," they often speak as if it is one thing. It is not. It is at least three distinct approaches, built on the same material but employing different physics, different fabrication methods, and different strategies…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Google Just Drew a Line in the Sand: PQC Migration by 2029
25 Mar 2026 - The company building the quantum computer is telling you the clock is running out. That should get your attention. On March 25, 2026, Google published a brief but consequential blog post authored by Heather Adkins, VP…
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Research
Silicon Crosses the Logical Threshold: First Universal Logical Operations Demonstrated in a Silicon Quantum Processor
24 Mar 2026 - In 1998, Bruce Kane published a single-page proposal in Nature that launched an entire subfield of quantum computing. The idea was elegant: use the nuclear spins of individual phosphorus atoms embedded in a silicon crystal as…
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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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Research
Bennett and Brassard Win the Turing Award for Inventing Quantum Cryptography
Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who published the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol in 1984, receive the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award, four decades after a chance meeting at a 1979 conference in Puerto Rico.
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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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