A police body camera records an arrest. A surgeon consults a specialist over a live video link. A corporate board meets on a ...

New research and industry timelines are accelerating efforts to replace cryptography that quantum computers could eventually ...

​For much of the past decade, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) lived primarily in academic journals and standards committees.

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

While Bitcoin developers scramble to find a solution and Ethereum prepares for Q-day, Solana is trying to get ahead of that ...

Google ( GOOG) ( GOOGL) researchers have issued a new warning that future quantum computers may be capable of breaking the ...

Google warns that quantum computers could break crypto sooner than expected, heightening the urgency for post-quantum security across blockchain networks.

The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

Somewhere in the world right now, a cybercriminal is trying to steal your organization's encrypted data. They can't read it yet, but the technology needed to do so is rapidly approaching. When ready, ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...