Elias Rennik - Page 3
A tech analyst and long-form writer focused on emerging tech and digital security, Elias stands out with his data-driven approach and willingness to challenge conventional narratives. He specializes in turning complex topics into engaging stories that inform and provoke thought.
The First Quantum Crypto Theft May Look Like Nothing Happened
The standard Q-day story is a heist movie. A quantum computer wakes up, drains Satoshi Nakamoto’s dormant coins, and the...
A Quantum Algorithm Just Took Aim at Post-Quantum Crypto’s Core
The most consequential result in post-quantum cryptography this month is a preprint that may or may not be wrong. Daniel...
What IonQ’s Radar Contract Says About Its Quantum Story
Read IonQ’s latest press release and count the qubits. There aren’t any. The company that bills itself as “the world’s...
OpenAI’s Astra Wrote New Quantum-Complexity Proofs. Do They Hold?
OpenAI says an internal model it calls Astra solved ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, and two...
The Quantum Cold War Runs Through a Dilution Fridge
The fridge that cools a superconducting quantum computer to a whisker above absolute zero is made, at industrial scale, by...
IBM’s Trillion-Dollar Quantum Forecast Comes With Fine Print
Arvind Krishna went on CNBC this week and gave quantum computing a price tag. IBM’s CEO said the technology will...
Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Ready. The Hard Part Is Moving
Most warnings about quantum computers breaking encryption come from companies selling the fix. The latest one comes from the very...
The Proposal to Freeze What Bitcoin Was Built Never to Freeze
Changpeng Zhao wants Bitcoin to freeze coins on a chain engineered so that nobody, not even its creators, can freeze...
An AI Found Real Cryptographic Weaknesses. None of Them Break Your Bank Yet
Anthropic says one of its AI models has done something no AI could do a year ago. It found genuine...
Quantum-Proofing Crypto Without Moving a Coin, and What That Requires
Blockchain security firm AmericanFortress has published a technical paper proposing a way to protect existing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana wallets...