Per Moskvitch, Aaronson later watched the episode with his own two children, who kept asking follow-up questions. “This is the intended audience,” Moskvitch told Ars. “It’s parents watching, ideally ...

Part 1 of this series explained what quantum computers actually are. Not just faster versions of regular computers, but a fundamentally different kind of machine that exploits the weird rules of ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

The quantum computing future is rapidly reshaping how scientists think about computation, with machines moving toward fault-tolerant systems capable of solving problems beyond classical limits. From ...

The way Australians are assessed for home-based aged-care funding is being investigated by the Commonwealth ombudsman. Critics say assessment for funding under the Support at Home program is flawed, ...

Here’s a similar tracker for seeing which libraries work properly with Python’s new free-threaded builds. Looking back on one year of free-threaded Python Quansight Labs uses Python’s free-threaded ...

A proposed workaround could enable quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without a protocol change, but high compute costs limit real-world use. A Bitcoin researcher has come up with a way that could ...

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The quantum attack Bitcoin has spent years treating as tomorrow's problem just got a little less theoretical. Quantum security startup Project Eleven said it awarded its 1 bitcoin BTC $80,953.28 Q-Day ...

Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world. The malware—reportedly ...