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Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of ...

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

Last week, cybersecurity researchers woke up to bad news. Research in new papers published by Google and a quantum computing startup, Oratomic, suggests that quantum computers capable of breaking the ...

Researchers at China's Shanghai University have demonstrated how quantum mechanics could pose a realistic threat to current encryption schemes even before full-fledged quantum computers become ...

Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete ...

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...

The U.S. government has taken equity stakes in nine quantum-computing firms, betting $2 billion on a technology that could eventually break the encryption securing Bitcoin BTC. The Commerce Department ...

IBM plans to invest over $10B in quantum computing by 2029, targeting its fault-tolerant Quantum Starling system. Here's what ...