According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are practically impossible to solve. Quantum computers threaten to flip that ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

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

Though Cloudflare already enabled post-quantum encryption for all websites and application programming interfaces (APIs) in ...

Google's quantum paper made headlines with that number. Here's what it means, what's actually at risk, and why 6.9 million ...

Google's research suggests Bitcoin encryption may be easier to crack than thought, but Bitcoin above $62K on April 17 remains ...

Alphabet (Google) sounded a fresh alarm about the accelerating risks posed by quantum computers to the foundational security of Bitcoin.

Powerful quantum computers may be closer than scientists thought. To unleash the technology’s full power, scientists have long thought that quantum computers with millions of quantum bits, or qubits, ...