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Government data center servers awaiting migration to post-quantum cryptography

U.S. Quantum Readiness Gaps Put Government Data Protection in Focus Worldwide

October 9, 2026 No Comments

An American federal audit highlights the skills, procurement, and planning challenges governments face in moving sensitive systems to post-quantum cryptography before quantum attacks become possible. A newly released U.S. Government Accountability Office report has identified substantial gaps in federal agencies’ preparations for quantum computing threats and the move to post-quantum

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UN General Assembly hall, where Quantum For The Goals convenes on the quantum divide

Quantum Has Arrived at the UN General Assembly

September 14, 2026 No Comments

As Quantum For The Goals convenes at UN Headquarters, UNESCO warns of a widening quantum divide between the countries financing the technology and everyone else. NEW YORK — For most of its history, quantum technology belonged primarily to physicists, universities and research laboratories. Increasingly, it belongs to presidents, finance ministers,

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Quantum Moves From Breakthrough to Value as Q2B Copenhagen Opens

Quantum Moves From Breakthrough to Value as Q2B Copenhagen Opens

September 9, 2026 No Comments

Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Lene Oddershede places quantum within a mission-driven strategy for planetary health, while 55 North’s Owen Lozman and U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Howery examine what it will take to build lasting quantum value. COPENHAGEN — Q2B Copenhagen opened Wednesday with a question increasingly defining the global quantum industry: how

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U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington as quantum readiness moves up the financial agenda

U.S. Treasury Moves to Quantum-Proof the Financial System

September 1, 2026 No Comments

New task force elevates quantum readiness from a technology challenge to a financial resilience priority as governments and banks prepare for encryption that may not survive the quantum era. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department is accelerating preparations for a future in which sufficiently powerful quantum computers could undermine the

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Neutral-atom quantum computing hardware, central to Saudi Arabia's Pasqal venture

Saudi Arabia’s Quantum Ambitions Expand With New Pasqal Regional Venture

August 25, 2026 No Comments

A new commercial joint venture between French quantum company Pasqal and Saudi-based Eleven Ventures signals the Saudi quantum push to build domestic infrastructure, talent and commercial capacity, with ambitions extending across the Middle East and North Africa. Saudi Arabia is expanding its frontier-computing ambitions as Pasqal and Eleven Ventures move

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Indonesia Moves to Secure Its Digital Infrastructure Before the Quantum Threat Arrives

Indonesia Moves to Secure Its Digital Infrastructure Before the Quantum Threat Arrives

August 14, 2026 No Comments

JAKARTA — Indonesia is accelerating preparations to protect government systems, critical infrastructure and sensitive data from a cybersecurity threat that has not yet fully materialized: quantum computers powerful enough to compromise widely used forms of public-key encryption. The move places Southeast Asia’s largest economy within a widening international effort to

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