Atsign Updates Core SDKs with NIST-Approved Post-Quantum Security
Insider Brief Press release – Atsign today announced the integration of NIST-approved, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) across its core SDKs. The integration gives developers and enterprise teams a zero-code-rewrite path to protecting sensitive data flows against emerging quantum threats. Breaking the key elements of current cryptographic techniques, such as digital signatures, digital identity and key exchange, is […]
Sparrow Quantum Receives EuroHPC Funding for Photonic Quantum Project
Insider Brief Press release – Sparrow Quantum has announced that the company is one of 13 selected for funding under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s Quantum Grand Challenge, an EU program created to accelerate the development of market-ready quantum-computing platforms. Sparrow Quantum is the only Danish company selected. Founded to make high-quality deterministic quantum light — photonic qubits […]
Quantum X Labs Launches Qatacomb for Quantum Security Research
Insider Brief Press release – Quantum X Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: QXL) (“QuantumX Labs” or the “Company”), today announced the launch of Qatacomb, a new research initiative being advanced through the Company’s QuantumQ Security operation, focused on exploring a quantum-native approach to protecting sensitive information. Qatacomb is designed to investigate security architectures that seek to combine […]
CypherGenics Launches FASTKAT for Quantum-Ready Security
Insider Brief Press release – CypherGenics, the post-quantum security platform for enterprises and critical infrastructure, today announced the launch of FASTKAT™, its patented security technology designed to deliver quantum-ready identity, authentication and encryption across increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations prepare for the evolving threat posed by quantum computing and the accelerating pace of AI-driven attacks and […]
SEALSQ Advances QASIC Quantum-Resistant Semiconductor Roadmap
Insider Brief Press release – SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or the “Company”), a global leader in post-quantum semiconductor, Public Key Infrastructure (“PKI”) and digital identity technologies, today provided an update on the development of QASIC, its Quantum-Resistant Application-Specific Integrated Circuit initiative. Developed through IC’Alps, SEALSQ’s French ASIC design subsidiary, QASIC combines SEALSQ’s post-quantum cryptography […]
IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories
Insider Brief Press release – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, LLC (HRL), a leading research and development institution whose expertise spans quantum computing, quantum sensing, advanced communications, electronics, manufacturing, and materials science. The acquisition brings together two leading organizations with a shared commitment to advancing the frontiers of […]
Quantum Keys Travel 18 Kilometers Across Hybrid Air-and-Fiber Network
Insider Brief Researchers demonstrated quantum key distribution across an 18-kilometer free-space link by using adaptive optics to counter atmospheric turbulence and connect the signal to conventional fiber infrastructure. The field trial in northeastern Italy generated secret encryption keys at an average rate of about 1,000 bits per second with high-efficiency superconducting detectors and 200 bits […]
NSF Awards $37.5M to CU Boulder-Led Quantum Research Institute
Insider Brief Press release – A scientific quest to build more accurate clocks, faster computers and new sensors to detect the faintest signs of disease and disaster is getting a $37.5 million financial boost. The U.S. National Science Foundation, through its Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes, is investing in the next phase of CU Boulder and its […]
Quantum Voting System Shows Resilience to Noise on IBM Hardware
Insider Brief When voters head to the polls, a ballot is designed to be as simple as possible. A voter makes a choice, the choice goes into the count and, whatever disputes follow, the mark on the ballot stays put. In a quantum election, however, the quantum ballot is a much stranger, more complex proposition. […]
Quantum Datacenter Alliance Announces Second Annual Forum on Scaling Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The second international Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) Forum will be held on October 1, 2026 at Battersea Power Station in London. This exclusive-access event brings together technical and business leaders from across the quantum and classical networking industries with a shared mission: accelerating the timelines to reach utility-scale distributed quantum […]