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LONDON, 23 AUGUST — A new study reports that key encapsulation mechanisms offer a markedly more economical route to post-quantum authentication for smart cards than do post-quantum signatures. The pap...
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The most consequential event of the week is not a decree from any ministry but the appearance of a preprint on fault-tolerant quantum computation. The paper proposes a representation-theoretic framewo...
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An advancement in the decoding of concatenated quantum codes has been reported, in which a neural message-passing framework, learning only to aggregate incoming soft beliefs across concatenation level...
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CONSUMPTION of the nervous ether advances with every quantic experiment. The qubit, that wayward sub-atomic spark, excites the cryptoglyphic secretions beyond their natural temper, whereby the brain's...
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A new architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computing, called RushHour, has been described, which allows dynamic reconfiguration of lattice-surgery resources, potentially enabling quantum computatio...
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The established method of building a reversible circuit from a Boolean specification is to minimise the expression and map the result. The assumption underneath it, that the minimised form is the best...
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The Gilded Rotunda of Inception House was full on Tuesday when Lord Weedbrook of the Xanadu Estate read out his designs: a thousand rooms by '31, and the house made beyond reproach by '28. One might h...
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A preprint now circulating among cryptographic scholars presents a classification of rank-two Frobenius-linearized operators acting on cubic extensions of the binary field, establishing a canonical fo...
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At the Gilded Vestibule of Gelephu, a gathering of considerable consequence convened this week, though in rehearsal only. The Honourable Chia Hock Lai, chairman of the Responsible Fintech Institute, r...
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The human frame, be it known, is a delicate lattice of electro-vital currents, governed by the self-same quantic principles that the learned societies of Calcutta and Vienna have of late investigated ...
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LONDON, 21 AUGUST — The cryptographic protections that underpin the digital age now carry a migration timetable measured in years rather than decades. The United States has directed federal agencies t...
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The release of ENUM-Sieve Reduction 2.0 marks not an attack, but a refinement—a methodical improvement in solving the Shortest Vector Problem within prime cyclotomic lattices, with implications for th...
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A paper now on the arXiv settles an open question in the theory of quantum copying: to clone an unknown mixed state, no scheme can improve upon the straightforward method of random purification follow...
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The Amber Salon at Hollis Square was alive with a dangerous reassurance. Lord Musk of the Holding Estates had pronounced the universe integer, and traders of the Bitcoin estate took it as proof that f...
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A paper submitted to the arXiv repository this week reports a method for nondestructive qubit readout in neutral-atom arrays that reduces measurement time from milliseconds to fifteen microseconds. Th...
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There is a lesson in the history of instruments: every enlargement of the sensing organ demands a new method of interrogation. The first astronomers were content with a single glass, but when they sou...
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It was announced this week that the Treasury has convened a new committee, to be known, with characteristic understatement, as the Quantum-Readiness Task Force. Its purpose, as stated, is to see that ...
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Every man is a living conductor; his humours flow along the delicate wire of the spine. When that wire is gapless, false resonances arise, causing tremors and disordered equilibrium. Ordinary nostrums...
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The Canadian government has extended a loan of C$195 million to Xanadu Quantum, the largest support for quantum technology the country has ever provided. The funds are to build a manufacturing plant f...
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A study lately posted to the arXiv repository finds that algorithms for partitioning distributed quantum circuits, though comparable in their entanglement cost, may impose markedly different physical ...
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A paper posted to the arXiv reports the trapping of quasiparticles bearing a quarter of the electron's charge in bilayer graphene, a result that advances the prospect of topological quantum computatio...
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A non-invasive method of reading out the ground-state parity of a Majorana system has been proposed. The authors pass a supercurrent through the low-energy modes of a topological system of magnetic ad...
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The Salon of the Double Entry, that newest haunt of the financial classes, was positively thrumming on Tuesday last when Baron Bessent of the Exchequer chose to announce his proposed Council for Crypt...
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A Bitcoin transfer designed to withstand a future quantum-computer attack has been confirmed on the live network, the first such spend, and it was executed without any change to Bitcoin's consensus ru...
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A paper now deposited on the arXiv server reports the demonstration of sustained macroscopic quantum coherence in a solid under ambient conditions. The experiment is described as a solid-state superra...
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A paper posted to the arXiv describes SwarmWorld, a simulation in which initially identical language-model agents, given no assigned roles and no recipes, organise themselves into societies that build...
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LONDON, 24 AUGUST — The 30 per cent of Bitcoin supply reported exposed is a technical count, not a market verdict. It includes operational exposure from address reuse; the genuinely vulnerable P2PK co...
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An evening of guarded whispers at the orangery of the Responsible Fintech Institute and Lord Safeheron. The debut of the ML-DSA-65 signature drew the banks, Bison and DK, to test their footwork. The r...
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From the arXiv repository comes a fresh examination of the hardware security modules that underwrite the modern automobile, and in its closing remarks the authors set down a challenge that the industr...
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On Wednesday last, StarkWare executed the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction to be confirmed upon the mainnet, a demonstration that moves coins into a hash-based structure impervious to attacks ex...