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Industry
Switzerland Just Published the Quietest Quantum Strategy in Europe. It Might Be the Smartest.
The Swiss Quantum Commission just released Switzerland's first comprehensive quantum strategy. For a national quantum strategy, it didn't arrive with the usual fanfare we got used to. No press conference headlined by a prime minister. No headline-grabbing pledge of tens…
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Quantum Computing
Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) Codes
Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) codes are an emerging class of quantum error-correcting codes that promise to significantly reduce the overhead required for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Much like their classical LDPC counterparts, qLDPC codes are defined by sparse parity-check constraints: each…
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Quantum Security & PQC
The “Cybersecurity Apocalypse in 2026” and the Jesse–Victor–Gharabaghi (JVG) Algorithm: Why This Claim Doesn’t Hold Up
A preprint manuscript (ID: 202510.1649) titled “A Novel Hybrid Quantum Circuit for Integer Factorization: End-to-End Evaluation in Simulation and Real Quantum Hardware” was published on the Preprints.org server. Authored by researchers affiliated with the Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute (AQTI), the paper…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Pinnacle Architecture: 100,000 Qubits to Break RSA-2048, but at What Cost?
Iceberg Quantum's Pinnacle Architecture paper claims RSA-2048 can be factored with fewer than 100,000 physical qubits - a genuine 10× reduction over the previous state of the art - by replacing surface codes with quantum LDPC codes. The result is…
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Quantum Security & PQC
Google’s Merkle Tree (MTC) Gambit to Quantum-Proof HTTPS
Google will not put post-quantum signatures into traditional X.509 certificates for Chrome. Instead, the company announced in February 2026 a fundamentally different architecture - Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) - that shrinks quantum-resistant TLS authentication data from roughly 14,700 bytes down…
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Quantum Systems Integration
Engineering the Quantum Operating System (OS) Stack: From Nanosecond Pulse Control to System-Level Orchestration
The argument for quantum computing's "PC moment" has become surprisingly compelling. QuantWare ships superconducting QPUs to customers in 22 countries. Qblox sells modular control stacks to over 100 labs. Bluefors has installed 1,800 cryogenic systems worldwide. The Quantum Open Architecture…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Payments and the Race to Quantum Safety / Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
The payments industry has navigated big cryptographic transitions before. The migration from magnetic stripes to EMV chips took the better part of two decades and cost billions. The shift from SHA-1 to SHA-256 certificates was painful but bounded - it…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
120,000 Tasks: Why Post‑Quantum (PQC) Migration Is Enormous
When I tell fellow CISOs, board members, or even seasoned program managers that the integrated program plan for a comprehensive quantum security / post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration I recently worked on contained over 120,000 discrete tasks, the reaction is almost…
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Quantum Security & PQC
No, the “Pinnacle Architecture” Is Not Bringing Q-Day Closer 2-5 Years (but It Is Credible Research)
Since the preprint paper of The Pinnacle Architecture preprint hit and its Quantum Insider coverage ran, my phone has been ringing off the hook. The question behind most of those calls is simple: does this mean RSA is suddenly in imminent trouble? Is…
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Quantum Security & PQC
The EU Just Proposed Including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) in NIS2
On 20 January 2026, the European Commission published COM(2026) 13 final - a proposed directive amending NIS2 as part of a broader cybersecurity simplification package tied to the upcoming Cybersecurity Act 2. The proposal covers a range of updates: streamlining…
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Research
Peking University Demonstrates 20-User Chip-Based QKD Network Spanning 3,700 km
12 Feb 2026 - A team led by Jianwei Wang and Lin Chang at Peking University has demonstrated an integrated-photonics twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) network connecting 20 independent client chips across ten wavelength-multiplexed channels, with each channel surpassing the…
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Quantum Computing Companies
QuantWare
QuantWare is a Delft, Netherlands-based quantum computing startup that provides superconducting quantum processors as off-the-shelf products. Founded in 2021 as a spin-out from TU Delft’s QuTech institute by Matt Rijlaarsdam and Alessandro Bruno, the company aims to be the “Intel…
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Quantum Security & PQC
China Just Pushed Device-Independent QKD (DI-QKD) to 100 Kilometres
A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) published a paper in Science that quietly redrew the map of what device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) can do. Led by Bo-Wei Lu, Chao-Wei Yang, Run-Qi Wang, Xiao-Hui…
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Quantum Security & PQC
India’s Task Force Releases Quantum‑Safe Roadmap with 2027–2029 Migration Timeline for CII
India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) published the “Implementation of Quantum Safe Ecosystem in India – Report of the Task Force.” This report, produced by a national Task Force under DST, lays out a strategic roadmap for transitioning India’s…
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Research
USTC Demonstrates First Scalable Quantum Repeater Building Block
5 Feb 2026 - A team led by Jian-Wei Pan and Qiang Zhang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has demonstrated what the field has been waiting for: remote memory-memory entanglement that survives longer than the…
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