"we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser" red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

The forward-looking Oratomic time-efficient architecture claims to "potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈26,000 qubits, and 97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈102,000." This is based on stitching together several gadgets and plausibly assuming they can work together on an atom platform.

"our most time-efficient architectures can potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈ 26,000 qubits, and
97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈ 102,000 qubits" arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28627

Building superconducting and neutral atom quantum computers An overview of Google Quantum AI’s work on superconducting and neutral atom quantum computers.

Google Quantum AI now a two-platform company. blog.google/innovation-a...

March Meeting 2026

It's official: @preskill.bsky.social now at Oratomic, a new Rydberg atom startup led by Dolev Bluvstein and joined by @roberthuang.bsky.social. Exciting times!

Exciting, scary, and thoughtful session on the future of AI at #apsmarch and possible breakdown of peer review. Matthew D. Schwartz: "AI will keep getting better and better at physics. We will not."

Exciting, scary, and thoughtful session on the future of AI at #apsmarch and possible breakdown of peer review. Matthew D. Schwartz: "AI will keep getting better and better at physics. We will not."

Exciting, scary, and thoughtful session on the future of AI at #apsmarch and possible breakdown of peer review. Matthew D. Schwartz: "AI will keep getting better and better at physics. We will not."

Lots of good pointers on how to go a good project, by Nicholas Carlini. nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026...

Quantum Tutorials | 2026 - YouTube

Here are videos and slides of my 6 hour overview of QEC, slightly updated from my @qip2025.bsky.social tutorial. Thanks goes to Kishor Bharti and Atul Arora for letting me give this at the Quantum Meets! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... zenodo.org/records/1874...

"the progress of civilization is ultimately grounded in people who believe in their own moral imagination, while retaining humility. We're going to need many such people to help develop ideas and institutions to navigate any possible posthuman transition" michaelnotebook.com/whichfuture/...

New many-body postdoc offering at @UMDscience; come join us! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

Nice account of someone who didn't think it was all about the CV. www.ams.org/journals/not...

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

Encouraging news.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Heard many good things about these 52-chapter intro quantum mechanics notes by Robert Littlejohn. Should be useful for those interested in quantum simulation. bohr.physics.berkeley.edu/classes/221/...

Participated in my first NSF panel: wide variety of excellent proposals, from basic-science to practical. Thank you to the other panelists and program directors for upholding high standards and competitiveness!

Participants in that panel were Sofia Vallecorsa, Eleanor Rieffel, Hank Lamm, Gabe Perdue, Matthew Otten, Sarah Sheldon, Andrew Sornborger, Yigit Subasi, Thomas ladecola, Peter Orth, Norm Tubman, and Maxime Dupont.

Peter Shor and Bert de Jong hosted our discussion. We discussed ingredients for achieving the elusive practical quantum speedup. Several noted that an asymptotic polynomial speedup may not be enough since constants can prevent it from kicking in at practical parameter regimes.

Dario Gil kicks off 12 parallel roundtable discussions @fermilab.bsky.social quantum symposium by the SQMC center.

Recommendation letters for the Hartree are due on Dec. 8th. Please verify with your writers that your letters are uploaded!

Peter Shor: we haven't found many new quantum algorithms, in part, because we need larger quantum devices for testing our heuristics. He gives several examples of algorithms that were discovered computationally, including turbo codes, @fermilab.bsky.social quantum symposium by the SQMS center.

wrong link: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

A short talk on continuous-variable (CV) codes and designs, aimed for a math audience. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond the Geometry of Music Higgs Centre Colloquium - Dmitri Tymoczko

Music has some pretty serious underlying geometry and category theory! media.ed.ac.uk/media/Beyond...

George Laurer - Wikipedia

Error detection and correction at @umdscience.bsky.social has a long history: the guy who invented the barcode is an alum! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

The Fast for the Curious: How to accelerate fault-tolerant quantum applications We evaluate strategies for reducing the run time of fault-tolerant quantum computations, targeting practical utility in scientific or industrial workflows. Delivering a technology with broad impact re...

"Even for the fastest qubit modalities, such as superconducting qubits, it will be challenging to achieve the required logical clock speeds. ...in the long term, the best quantum computer may be the one that runs the fastest." arxiv.org/abs/2510.26078

QuICS Hartree fellowship application is out! A competitive and completely free-range postdoc. Anyone interested in quantum science and technology topics is encouraged to apply, preferably by Dec. 1. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

"Quantum hardware platforms are advancing steadily, but no one knows when quantum computers will run applications that broadly benefit society."

2025 UMD Quantum postdoc job thread.

We start with the Quantum Optics Fellowship, intended for AMO and QI. Anyone who would have applied for the JQI Fellowship should apply to this one. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowsh...