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South Korea Commits 200 Trillion Won to R&D, Quantum Listed as Strategic Tech

South Korea has finalized its Sixth Basic Plan for Science and Technology, committing over 200 trillion won to government R&D from 2026 to 2030. Quantum technologies are designated as one of 10 national strategic technology fields, with 60 trillion won earmarked for 55 technologies across those fields. The plan also targets AI infrastructure expansion, 6G development, semiconductor clusters, and regional R&D special zones. A mission-oriented research model will replace the previous project-based funding system, potentially benefiting long-horizon fields like quantum computing, secure communications, and quantum sensing. No quantum-specific budget figure was disclosed, but the inclusion signals a long-term national security and economic commitment to the field.

D-Wave to Receive $1.5 Million Grant through NSF Project

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has been awarded a $1.57 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation through its National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program. The funding supports D-Wave's role as an industry partner in the ERASE project, led by Yale University, which focuses on developing fault-tolerant quantum computing technologies using erasure qubits and dynamic circuits. Through its Quantum Circuits subsidiary, D-Wave will provide researchers access to its superconducting dual-rail gate-model quantum computing platform for work on software, compilers, and quantum error correction. The project also aims to strengthen the U.S. quantum computing workforce pipeline.

Q*Bird Launches the Falqon Key Manager to Enable Scalable Quantum Secure Networks

QBird has launched the Falqon® Key Manager, a standalone Quantum Key Management System (QKMS) that enables organizations to securely manage, store, synchronize, and distribute QKD, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), and hybrid cryptographic keys across distributed infrastructures. The system bridges QKD and non-QKD environments, supports trusted-node architectures, and integrates with QBird's existing Falqon® MDI-QKD Series and Quantum Domain Controller. It targets government, defense, telecom, and critical infrastructure operators preparing for quantum-secure network deployments at scale, and can be deployed on-premise or in cloud environments.

Soatok’s Informal Guide to Threat Models

A practical, opinionated guide to threat modeling aimed at developers who want to build security intuition without formal methodology overhead. Covers the essential questions a threat model must answer, the importance of stating assumptions explicitly, and how to spot incomplete threat models — using Matrix's sparse threat model as a negative example. Also explores how threat modeling applies to real-world scenarios: passkey adoption to defeat credential stuffing, E2EE design challenges in decentralized systems like ATProto vs ActivityPub, and the ongoing IETF debate over pure vs hybrid post-quantum KEMs (ML-KEM). Argues that threat modeling skills help developers cut through technical FUD and make better architectural decisions early.

SpinQ Raises RMB 1 Billion to Advance Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

SpinQ, a Chinese quantum computing company, has closed a RMB 1 billion Series D funding round, bringing its total fundraising over the past six months to RMB 2 billion. The capital will fund full-stack fault-tolerant quantum computer development, including quantum error correction, hardware-software integration, and manufacturing scale-up. SpinQ has completed tape-out and validation for 25-qubit and 103-qubit superconducting chips, is targeting d=3 surface-code error correction validation in 2026, and has published research on cascaded quantum Hamming code decoding accepted at QCE 2026. The company also plans to explore convergence of quantum computing with AI and supercomputing. Its products are already deployed in over 40 countries, serving more than 200 universities and research institutions.

How to Write Your First Quantum Circuit in Python: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide

A beginner-friendly guide to writing your first quantum circuit in Python using Qiskit. Covers core concepts like qubits, superposition, and quantum gates (X, H, CX/CNOT), then walks through building a Bell State circuit step by step. Includes environment setup, running simulations with AerSimulator, visualizing results with a histogram, and suggested experiments to deepen understanding. No quantum hardware or physics background required.

Bull and Alice & Bob Partner up to Bring Quantum Computers into HPC

Bull, Alice & Bob hợp tác phát triển hệ thống máy tính lượng tử cat-qubit tích hợp vào môi trường HPC, tập trung vào R&D, phần mềm (mở rộng nền tảng Qaptiva hỗ trợ cat-qubit) và triển khai thương mại. Máy tính lượng tử thương mại đầu tiên của Alice & Bob sẽ được tích hợp bởi Bull tại trung tâm siêu máy tính TGCC (Pháp) vào năm 2027, nhằm thúc đẩy chủ quyền công nghệ lượng tử châu Âu.

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