Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Quantum advances have not broken heavy-duty encryption yet, but seem well on their way to expose what we’ve long kept ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Bitcoin developers debate quantum threats to ECDSA signatures. BIP-361 proposes a five-year deadline to migrate or freeze vulnerable coins. BitMEX's quantum canary uses a bounty ...

A failed film student-turned-physicist is now a billionaire after Nvidia's quantum push sent his stock soaring.

The Impending Quantum Threat to Bitcoin In the world of cryptocurrencies, security is king. Bitcoin, powered by the revolutionary blockchain ...

The correct framing is not that Lightning is broken and unfixable. It is that Lightning, like all of Bitcoin, and like most ...

When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic Silent Spring in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might ...

Information transmission with structured light continues to advance in performance. In a study published in PhotoniX, researchers from Nanjing ...

Quantum Machines, founded in 2018 by three Weizmann-trained physicists and headquartered in Tel Aviv, now supplies the control technology used by more than half the companies in the world that are ...

It’s not often a math paper goes viral, but a new preprint from a theoretical physicist at Poland’s Jagiellonian University ...

AI firm Anthropic received a significant boost from the Trump administration, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailing ...