Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

New research estimates that it could be 20 times easier for quantum computers to break current encryption Experts urge software developers to advance their work in developing next-generation ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...

For the last two days my inbox (and LinkedIn messages) has been flooded with questions about headlines claiming that “Chinese researchers broke RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening ...

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 ...

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) executive chairman Michael Saylor is best known for turning his business intelligence company into the first and largest Bitcoin treasury. Despite having the most ...

Buterin warns that quantum computers could threaten Ethereum’s cryptography sooner than expected and outlines how the network can prepare safely. Buterin sees a nontrivial 20% chance that quantum ...

A researcher from the Google Quantum AI research team has estimated that a quantum computer with less than a million noisy qubits could undermine the security of RSA-2048 encryption that secures ...

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya has warned that Google revealed breaking common encryption might be closer than we thought. “If this is even remotely true, combined with everything else ...

Fully functional quantum computers remain out of reach, but optimism across the field is rising. At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in December, researchers and executives ...

Microsoft started 2025 with the introduction of its Majorana quantum chip, nearly eight years after its quantum language breakthrough. The computing giant's chip advancement kicked off a fiery ...