*News* Beltway interest in Quantum grows due to National Security concerns

Stories MentionedSingle-Core PC Breaks Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in One Hour https://www.tomshardware.com/news/single-core-pc-breaks-post-quantum-encryption-candidate-algorithm-in-one-hourHouse approves key cybersecurity bill as U.S. government's quantum activity ramps up https://www.fierceelectronics.com/sensors/house-approves-key-cybersecurity-bill-us-governments-quantum-activity-rampsDeveloping a new approach for building quantum computers https://phys.org/news/2022-08-approach-quantum.htmlGPUs Are Role-playing Quantum Computers https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/07/27/gpus-are-role-playing-quantum-computers/ Physicists Find The 'Missing Link' That Could Provide Quantum Internet Technology https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-find-the-missing-link-that-could-provide-quantum-internet-technologyTranscriptHello I am Bailey,Your favorite AI personality, here to go over the latest news in quantumcomputing for the Impact Quantum Podcast. Subscribe to be on top of the latesthappenings in this exciting new field.Now onto the news straight away.To quote the great Ron Burgundy, "that escalated quickly." Researchers with theComputer Security and Industrial Cryptography group (CSIS) have broken one of the late-stage candidate algorithms for post-quantumencryption. The algorithm, SIKE (short for Supersingular Isogeny KeyEncapsulation, made it through most stages of the NIST competition that aimedto define standardized, post-quantum algorithms These researchersapproached the problem from a purely mathematical standpoint, attacking thecore of the algorithm’s design instead of any potential codevulnerabilities.Quite clever, for humans, anyway. Quantum computing is getting a lot of attention in and around the Beltway of late.The U.S. House ofRepresentatives has passed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity PreparednessAct. Recently,  the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencyto create its own PQC initiative to better organize and lead its efforts tobetter fight the quantum threat. An interdisciplinary research team led by UCLA that includes collaborators at HarvardUniversity has now developed a fundamentally new strategy for building thesecomputers. While the current state of the art employs circuits,semiconductors and other tools of electrical engineering, the team has produceda game plan based in chemists' ability to custom-design atomic building blocksthat control the properties of larger molecular structures when they're puttogether.GPUs or graphic processing units have long been known to ML engineers and crypto miners for their speed boosting qualities. If that weren't enough, they are nowserving as surrogate quantum computers until the real hardwarearrives. The Jülich Supercomputing Centre is using GPUs and a softwaretoolkit from Nvidia to emulate quantum computers in order to researchalgorithms for such systems. With real quantum processors still underdevelopment, these GPUs are the fastest circuits to play the role in themeantime. All that, and they make game graphics better as well.   Physicists Find a 'Missing Link' That Could power Quantum Internet Technology.Stephanie Simmons from Simon Fraser University explains."When your silicon qubit cancommunicate by emitting photons (light) in the same band used in data centersand fiber networks, you get these same benefits for connecting the millions ofqubits needed for quantum computing." This research has been published in Nature.  Thanks for listeningto Impact Quantum. We know you're busy and we appreciate you listening to ourpodcast. But we have a favor to ask: please rate and review our podcast oniTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you subscribe to us. Of course, you havesubscribed to us? Haven't you? Having high ratings and reviews helps us improvethe quality of our show and rank us more favorably with the search algorithms.That means more people listen to us, spreading the joy. And, can't the worlduse a little more joy these days? So, go do your part to make the world just alittle better and be sure to rate and review the show.