Priority areas of focus include the greatest scientific challenges of our time that can dramatically improve our Nation’s national, economic, and health security, including biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
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IQM offers 9 hours of free quantum education. Today is day 2, and the lectures and labs are available as a replay on IQM’s YT channel:
I strongly recommend it if you want to understand quantum computing a bit more deeply than “a bit can be 1 and 0 at the same time.”
On the first day, workloads were already run on IQM’s 20-transmon Garnet machine, and on the second day, Bernstein-Vazirani and VQA / QAOA algorithms were implemented.
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Our old friend tells stories
YouTube Chapters: [00:00] Intro [00:36] Meet Konstantinos Karagiannis: Ethical Hacking to Quantum Computing [04:18] Understanding the Attacker Mindset in the Quantum Era [05:26] Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later and Why It Creates False Confidence [07:34] The Five-Day Rule and Breaking RSA-2048 [09:57] Prioritizing Crown Jewels and Inventory for Post-Quantum Planning [10:45] Third-Party Dependencies and Vendor Accountability [12:51] Harvest-Now-Forge-Later: Identity and Code Signing Disruption [13:28] Why Code Signing Attacks Scale Faster Than Decryption [15:34] Breaking Trust at Internet Scale: The Supply Chain Blast Radius [17:11] Blockchain, BLS Signatures, and Quantum Market Instability [19:21] Quantum Attackers: Nation States, Crime Syndicates, and Cloud Access [22:47] Guardrails, Policies, and the Future of Quantum Cloud [23:33] Timelines Shrinking Faster Than Expected: 2028–2029 Reality [25:12] IonQ’s “10 Quarters” Claim and Competitive Acceleration [27:05] The Perfect Storm: A Known Zero Day [29:47] Why Post-Quantum Migration is Cyber Resilience, Not Theory [31:44] Building a Roadmap: Crown Jewels, Architecture, and Team Structure [36:09] When PQC Becomes Invisible and Standardized [38:00] Explore Quantum Opportunities, Not Only the Threat [39:27] Quantum Risk Touches Everyone on the Planet [41:24] Final Guidance: Act Now and Learn Where to Start [41:53] Where to Connect with Konstantinos and Continue the Conversation
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