Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

Efforts to prepare enterprise data security for potential quantum-era threats are underway, though many organizations may ...

In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a ...

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI helping speed the way.

In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology did something it had been working toward for eight years: it finalized the first three cryptographic standards built to withstand ...

Just this past month, both Google’s Quantum AI team and a Cal Tech startup named Oratomic both produced papers that stated ...

After research from Google suggested a potential threat to some cryptocurrencies, tokens like QRL and Cellframe (CEL) saw ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The forthcoming era of quantum computers holds a lot of promise. Qubits—the quantum version of classical bits—have the potential to solve immensely ...

A quantum computer capable of breaking the encryption that secures the internet now seems to be just around the corner. Stunning revelations from two research teams outline how it could happen, with ...

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

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