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Are new US export controls rules on chips and other critical tech good enough?

By Ian J. Stewart | Analysis

How fear of future quantum hacks could expose sensitive data now

By Nicolas Ayala Arboleda | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană gave during the launch of the NATO Science and Technology Organisation’s 2023-2043 Trends Report in Brussels on Wednesday. Photo credit: NATO news release

Will DIANA—NATO’s DARPA-style innovation hub—improve or degrade global stability?

By Marina Favaro, Ulrich Kühn, Neil C. Renic | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

By the end of 1943, the US Navy had installed 120 electromechanical Bombe machines like the one above, which were used to decipher secret messages encrypted by German Enigma machines, including messages from German U-boats. Built for the Navy by the Dayton company National Cash Register, the US Bombe was an improved version of the British Bombe, which was itself based on a Polish design. Credit: National Security Agency

Keeping classified information secret in a world of quantum computing

By Jake Tibbetts | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Information overload: The promise and risk of quantum computing

By Lindsay Rand, Berit Goodge | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

The Sycamore processor

Quantum supremacy: not a Jason Bourne movie

By | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

3D rendering of a quantum processor. Credit: Shutterstock

Approaching Y2Q and barely a peep (or tweet) from the government

By Lindsay Rand | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow