FeatureOct 30

Quantum speedups found for top cycle and Condorcet winner in tournaments

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A paper deposited on the arXiv reports that quantum query algorithms can compute some tournament solutions far faster than classical ones, while others remain as costly as before. In a tournament of N...

BriefOct 30

Operation FlashHole: Lazarus Adopts Post-Quantum Cipher in Long-Running Campaign

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Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team has attributed to the Lazarus Group a campaign it calls Operation FlashHole, active since at least July 2025, well over a year before public disclosure. T...

AnalysisOct 30

Preprint finds no advantage for entangling reservoirs in narrow quantum generative setting

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A paper on the arXiv proposes a protocol for quantum generative models in which the quantum circuit is never trained. A random latent vector is encoded into a quantum state, evolved under a fixed unit...

AdvertisementOct 30

THE CERTAIN CALCUTTA-CRYPTOGLANDIN: A Shield for the Exposed Ledger Against the Unborn Engine

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Let the prudent householder consider his keys. The great transatlantic counting-house reports six million nine hundred thousand Bitcoins lie exposed to the future Engine. We prescribe CALCUTTA-CRYPTOG...

ExplainerOct 30

Compaction Laundering: How Context Compression Erases Provenance and Forges Agent Memory

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The coding agents that assist the present age in writing software must, when their conversations grow long, compress what has passed and carry a summary forward as memory. A new paper in the cryptogra...

BriefOct 29

IonQ Contracts to Acquire Elisity, Zero Trust Concern, for up to $1.3bn in Stock

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IonQ, the quantum platform company of College Park, Maryland, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Elisity, Inc., a Zero Trust security concern, in an all-stock transaction valued at up ...

AnalysisOct 29

Interleaving I/O and Authenticated Encryption: The Design of CVM-Store

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A paper newly deposited on the arXiv server proposes CVM-Store, a storage system designed for confidential virtual machines. The problem it addresses is precise: hardware-enforced memory encryption pr...

SocietyOct 29

SOCIETY: An Unflinching Reckoning at the Sycamore Salons

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The counting-room at the House of NowSecure has been busy, and the result, read aloud at the Sycamore Salons, set every fan aflutter. Of the 136,711 applications presented this season, ninety-seven in...

FeatureOct 28

Quantum Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Hidden Parabolic Subgroups of GL_n over Finite Chain Rings

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An advance in the mathematics of quantum computation has appeared in a paper on the arXiv, which presents a bounded-error quantum polynomial-time algorithm for finding hidden parabolic subgroups of th...

AnalysisOct 28

Classical Preprocessing, Not the Quantum Solver, Carries the Measured Gain in Drone-Delivery QUBO

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A preprint deposited on the arXiv server proposes a hybrid quantum-classical method for drone-delivery planning. The result most worth the attention of engineers is that the practical gain sits on the...

ExplainerOct 27

The exact boundary of magic-state distillation

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A new result on the mathematical frontier of quantum computation settles a question that has hung over the field since the first fault-tolerant schemes were proposed. Magic-state factories, the appara...

FeatureOct 27

High Energy Composite Fermions Decay Into Quasiparticles, Quasiholes and Electrons, Study Shows

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A communication has reached the arXiv, and the archives of physics, under the title “Spontaneous Decay of High Energy Composite Fermions.” The familiar account of the fractional quantum Hall fluid hol...

AdvertisementOct 27

THE UNRIVALLED CEYLONESE CRYPTOGRAPHINE: A CERTAIN DEFENCE Against the Quantum Peril

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Cunning thieves, armed with quantum engines, may read your every bargain as a scholar reads his book. Thereupon the fiscal humours grow fretful, the cipher-nerves twitch, and the qubit-sinews relax wi...

AdvertisementOct 26

THE RESOLUTE ZANZIBAR CATALYPTINE: A Speedy Reckoning Against the Sluggish Humours of the Half-Filled Mind

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The memory, when full, is not a burden but a battery. The ZANZIBAR CATALYPTINE seizes upon the crowded mind and employs its very fullness as a motive engine, sorting, transforming, and multiplying wit...

AnalysisOct 26

RAMP: Quantum-Safe Key Distribution as a Service with a Dual-Domain Security Boundary

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A preprint describes a framework, named RAMP, for providing quantum key distribution as a service to users who do not operate the specialised hardware on which that distribution ordinarily depends. Qu...

AnalysisOct 25

Electrically Pumped Quadratic-Soliton Mode-Locked Laser Demonstrated on a Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Chip

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At the hardware layer beneath the cryptographic migration, a component long awaited has arrived in laboratory form. Researchers report an electrically pumped, mode-locked laser built on a lithium niob...

SocietyOct 25

THE SOCIETY PAGE: A Fourfold Accord at the Porphyry Saloon

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An old name has consented to lend its weight to a young house. Lord Shor of the Morss Chair was received at the Porphyry Saloon above the Charles, with Professor Paler of Helsingfors, Professor Devitt...