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Oxford Achieves 10⁻⁷-Level Qubit Gate Error, Shattering Quantum Fidelity Records
Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new world record for quantum logic accuracy, achieving single-qubit gate error rates below 10^-7 – meaning fidelities exceeding 99.99999%. The breakthrough, reported in a study published in Physical Review Letters in June 2025 marks the lowest error ever recorded for any quantum computing platform. “As far as we are aware, this…
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Trump’s New Cybersecurity Order – What Changed and Why It Matters – Quantum Perspective
A New Executive Order Reshapes Cybersecurity Policy: On June 6, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a sweeping Executive Order titled “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity”, which explicitly amends two earlier orders: Obama-era Executive Order 13694 (2015) and the outgoing Biden administration’s Executive Order 14144 (January 16, 2025). This new order largely preserves the overall framework of…
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NIST Picks HQC as New Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate
Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits represent an exciting development in quantum engineering. They blend clever hardware design with advanced error-correcting codes to tackle the Achilles’ heel of quantum computers: noise. The research by Gu, Retzker, and Kubica shows that by making qubits a bit smarter about their own errors, we can significantly lower the overhead on the road…
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AWS Announces Ocelot Chip for Ultra-Reliable Qubits
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially unveiled Ocelot, its first in-house quantum computing chip, marking a significant milestone in the company’s quantum ambitions. Announced on February 27, 2025, Ocelot is a prototype processor designed from the ground up to tackle quantum error correction in a more resource-efficient way. AWS claims the new chip can reduce the overhead (and thus cost)…
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Microsoft’s Majorana-Based Quantum Chip – Beyond the Hype
In February 2025, Microsoft unveiled “Majorana 1,” an eight-qubit quantum chip built on a topological qubit architecture – a first-of-its-kind design leveraging exotic Majorana quasiparticles. This chip uses a new material called a “topoconductor” (a specially engineered topological superconductor) made from indium arsenide and aluminum, which can host and control Majorana zero modes (MZMs) to serve as qubits. Microsoft’s announcement…
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Executive Order 14144: Biden’s Big Swing at Cybersecurity Modernization
On January 16 2025 President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14144, “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” The 17‑page directive is the administration’s most comprehensive cyber policy since EO 14028 in 2021 and, for the first time, embeds post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) migration deadlines directly in federal law. At its core the order: Puts PQC on a clock. CISA must publish, within 180 days, a list…
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Google Announces Willow Quantum Chip
Google has unveiled a new quantum processor named “Willow”, marking a major milestone in the race toward practical quantum computing. The 105-qubit Willow chip demonstrates two breakthroughs that have long eluded researchers: it dramatically reduces error rates as qubit count scales up, and it completed a computational task in minutes that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the age…
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IBM Unveils 156-Qubit ‘Heron R2’ Quantum Processor
IBM has announced a new 156-qubit quantum processor called Heron R2, marking a significant upgrade to its quantum computing hardware portfolio. The Heron R2 chip is the second-generation follow-up to IBM’s 133-qubit “Heron” processor introduced in late 2023. Building on its predecessor, the Heron R2 not only adds more qubits but also delivers major improvements in qubit coherence, gate fidelity,…
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NIST Unveils Post‑Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially announced the release of its first set of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards, naming four quantum-resistant algorithms selected to protect data against future quantum-computer attacks. These four algorithms – CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, and SPHINCS+ – emerged as the winners of NIST’s multi-year global competition to develop encryption and digital signature…
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NIST to Release PQC Algorithms in the Summer
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will release post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms in the upcoming weeks, according to White House cyber advisor Anne Neuberger. This development marks a significant step towards protecting data against future quantum computing threats. Although initially planned to release four algorithms, NIST will finalize and publish three this summer. This move addresses the…
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