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Industry
DARPA Advances Four More Quantum Companies to Stage C
Six quantum companies have reached DARPA’s final evaluation stage. As Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ join Microsoft and PsiQuantum, we examine the funding, hardware evidence and what Stage C selection means for the prospect of economically useful quantum computing…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Europol Urges Early Action on Quantum Threats to Crypto Wallets and Stored Data
Europol's October 2026 reports place quantum risk on wallet signing keys and long-lived data. Since they were drafted, the IETF has published post-quantum OpenPGP and the hybrid TLS standards behind key exchange already running in major software.
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Quantum Security & PQC
US Agencies Had Until May 2023 to Inventory Quantum-Vulnerable Cryptography. Auditors Found One of 24 Inventories Complete.
Washington called the federal inventory of quantum-vulnerable cryptography comprehensive in 2023. An audit made public on October 6 checked the inventories against agencies' own records and asked sampled agencies for evidence. One passed, and most sampled entries had no documentation.
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Research
Modular Quantum Error Correction: 10x in Simulation
Google Quantum AI and DeepMind simulated a modular error-correction memory that needs a tenth of the surface code's physical qubits per logical qubit. The abstract's 30× figure comes from codes too large to simulate.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Dutch Quantum Strategy Says Prepare for Q-Day Around 2030. Medium-Risk Systems Have Until 2035.
Dutch central-government organizations are asked to move high-risk systems to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2030 under a new national strategy, which expects a CRQC between 2029 and 2035 and adds no money for the migration.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Crypto-Agility for Digital Assets: Chains Are Planning One Post-Quantum Change When They Will Need Several
Zcash replaced a flawed proof circuit and sealed a pool then worth $1.7 billion within 60 days. Bitcoin and Ethereum are planning one post-quantum change. Crypto-agility means a chain can change its cryptography again, and retire what it replaced.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Crypto-Agility Is the Goal. The PQC Migration Is Only Its First Test.
Post-quantum algorithm choices are already changing: a NIST candidate was withdrawn the day after an attack went public, and BSI advised against Classic McEliece in new developments. Build a crypto-agility program and make the PQC migration its first test.
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Quantum Commercialization
Clients Kept Asking Us to Train Their Teams, So I Started Quantum Academy
Applied Quantum has delivered hundreds of hours of private training, from board briefings to hands-on technical work. Quantum Academy moves that teaching into a separate company, with practitioner instructors, proctored exams and a flagship program for Chief Quantum Officers.
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Industry
Quantum Academy Launches 68 PQC and Quantum Courses, With Proctored Certification Exams
Quantum Academy's next live online sessions start October 19, priced from US$379 to US$8,499 for the six-week Certified Chief Quantum Officer program. Disclosure: I founded it, and some of its instructors work at my consulting firm.
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Policy & Sovereignty
NSA Rewrites Its QKD Guidance: Same Verdict, a New Certification Argument
Almost six years after its first QKD statement, NSA has revised it. National security systems still get a no, and NSA now says certified security can erode. I agree, and argue the US should fund a limited operational QKD program.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Germany’s BSI Advises Against New Classic McEliece Deployments After Researchers Estimate Key Recovery Below Its Claimed Security Levels
Less than two months after a new Classic McEliece distinguisher appeared, three research groups estimate key recovery below every claimed security level, and Germany's federal cybersecurity agency wants no new projects built on it. No practical attack exists yet.
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Policy & Sovereignty
NATO’s First Quantum Roadmap: Sea Trials, a PQC Pilot and No Public Date for Its Own PQC Migration
Allies approved NATO's first quantum technology roadmap in July. Its public summary dates sensor trials, standards work and a cryptography pilot. A separate procurement notice estimates the pilot at €8 million and adds a before-2030 goal.
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Research
QuTech Builds Leakage Removal Into Qubit Readout, and Its Clearest Gain Is in Stability Experiments
QuTech's leakage reduction unit works inside a qubit measurement and adds no time to two-level readout. At baseline leakage it left memory-experiment error rates unchanged but raised a stability experiment's error-suppression factor by 29%, or 54% with three-level readout.
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Research
Researchers Reviewed 53 Quantum Computing Studies in Bioinformatics. Two-Thirds Never Used a Quantum Computer.
A systematic review of 53 peer-reviewed studies applying quantum computing to genomics, protein structure and biomedical data found most ran on classical computers, used reduced datasets and seldom published both code and data.
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Policy & Sovereignty
In a Survey of 160 Quantum Firms, 90% Buy From Abroad and About a Quarter Buy From China
Six industry associations asked 160 quantum companies where their suppliers, customers and factories are. I separate foreign from home answers in the country counts, then look at China, the competing lists of like-minded countries and what the survey left out.
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