In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a surface-code quantum error correction experiment that crossed below the ...

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 ...

However, Quantum Day (Q-Day) is different. Q-Day is the moment a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break the ...

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

Imagine a world where the locks protecting your most sensitive information—your financial records, medical history, or even national security secrets—can be effortlessly picked. This is the looming ...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has a security problem that isn't going away, and it just got harder to dismiss. On March 31, Google's Quantum AI research team published a white paper showing that future ...

Quantum computing does not just threaten passwords and virtual private networks (VPNs). It goes straight for something legal systems rely on ...

Quantum computers have been coming of age for a while now and are about to throw a wrench into some long-established security ...

For decades, it was believed a quantum computer would need millions of physical qubits to pose a threat to real-world encryption. This is far bigger than current systems, so the threat felt ...