{
  "id": 12124,
  "url": "https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/before-q-day-the-race-to-quantum-first",
  "title": "Before Q-Day: The Race to Quantum First",
  "summary": "Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30, 2026, that wait got shorter.Two independent research teams lowered the public estimates for breaking the encryption that secures banking, communications, and classified traffic. One showed that Shor’s algorithm, the quantum method for factoring the large numbers behind public-key encryption, could run at cryptographically relevant scale with a",
  "authors": "Mauritz Kop",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-20T08:00:11.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-21T05:10:12.656Z",
  "source_slug": "x-war-on-the-rocks",
  "source_name": "War on the Rocks",
  "source_homepage": "https://warontherocks.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12124",
  "original_url": "https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/before-q-day-the-race-to-quantum-first",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}