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

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

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

Google quantum pioneer says encryption-breaking use cases may arrive sooner than expected, urging crypto industry to prepare now ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

The broker said advances in quantum computing are accelerating the timeline for crypto risk, but argued Bitcoin faces a multi ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have realized particularly stable quantum logical operations with qubits made of neutral atoms.

Quantum computers struggle with a major flaw: their information vanishes unpredictably. Scientists have now created a new method that can measure this loss over 100 times faster than before. By ...

Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use an implementation of ECC called secp256k1. According to Google, its ...

Tue, December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC Because the goal is so lofty, tracking its progress has also been difficult. To help chart a course toward truly transformative quantum technology and mark ...

Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not Ania Bleszynski Jayich. The UC Santa Barbara physicist sees ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series of challenges and conundrums. One of them relates ...