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Quantum Security & PQC
The ECB’s AI Cybersecurity Letter to Banks Is Also a Quantum Announcement
The euro area's banking supervisor gave 110 bank CEOs an October 31 deadline for AI cyber action plans, then used the final paragraph to start the quantum clock. Here is what the coming quantum letter will demand.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Coming CRQC Blackout: Why the Papers Will Stop Before the Progress Does
The field ran three disclosure experiments in 2026: full openness, cryptographic secrecy, and silence. Only one is stable, and it ends our ability to track CRQC progress through published research.
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Quantum Computing
Helium-3 Alternatives: Every Exit From the Shortage, Assessed
Ten engineering escape routes and one geopolitical wildcard for quantum computing's scarcest input, from breeding tritium on purpose to cooling qubits from inside the chip. I assess what each can deliver, what blocks it, and what would change the answer.
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Industry
EU Funds QKD Certification Push With QUARTERNEXT
The EU is funding a four-year consortium to certify quantum key distribution for industrial use, even as its own cybersecurity agencies urge organizations to prioritize post-quantum cryptography. The tension is instructive.
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Quantum Computing
Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics. Everybody Uses It.
A board member accused me of selling a technology nobody understands. He was half right. The interpretation of quantum mechanics is unresolved. The mathematics has been tested to twelve decimal places and runs your phone.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Microsoft PQC Acceleration: What Was Announced
The company that said 2033 ten months ago now says 2029. With Google and Cloudflare already committed, three of the internet's most consequential infrastructure providers have converged on the same post-quantum deadline.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Post-Quantum OpenPGP Arrives: RFC 9980, the GnuPG Split, and the Signature Gap
The IETF has standardized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA for OpenPGP, with hybrid-only lattice cryptography and a v4 compatibility carve-out. The bigger story is the implementation split that decides whether any of it interoperates.
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Policy & Sovereignty
Europe’s €19.8 Million Bet on Quantum Talent: The European Quantum Academy Launches
The EU officially launched the European Quantum Academy with €19.8 million, 70 partner institutions, and targets to train 600 quantum professionals. The ambition is right. The numbers deserve scrutiny.
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Industry
NIST and SRI Launch the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center
NIST is investing $20 million to establish a Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center with SRI International, moving from the consortium that mapped the quantum industry to a center tasked with manufacturing at scale.
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Quantum Computing
Microsoft’s Majorana Qubit: What the Experts Actually Think
I've never trusted the Majorana story, but I'm no condensed-matter physicist. So after the latest chip and the latest Nature rebuttal, I went looking for where the experts, skeptics and defenders both, actually land.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Shannon Hustle: How Vendors Abuse Perfect Secrecy to Sell You Less Than You Think
Vendors drop "Shannon" into pitch decks to imply information-theoretic security. The math says otherwise. A five-question framework for evaluating any claim of perfect secrecy with practical key sizes.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
US Federal PQC Mandate After June 2026: Complete Guide
June 2026 transformed US PQC policy from planning guidance into enforceable mandates. This is the complete picture: what applies to whom, by when, and under which authority.
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Quantum Security & PQC
OMB M-26-15: The Federal PQC Migration Playbook Arrived in Two Days
OMB delivered the federal PQC migration playbook in two days, not ninety. The five-phase timeline, the algorithm choices, and what it means for agencies and contractors.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Inside the DoW Post-Quantum Strategy: The Defense Half of Trump’s PQC Mandate
Released a day after two quantum executive orders, the Pentagon's first PQC strategy covers the National Security Systems that EO 14412 carves out. The same 2030 and 2031 dates appear in both, but they don't mean the same thing.
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Industry
WEF Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: PQC Audit
The World Economic Forum placed two quantum-related entries on its 2026 Top 10 list. The coverage of PQC and quantum simulation carries factual errors and framing choices that weaken both entries.
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