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US researchers developed a 2D/3D lead-free tin perovskite solar cell using a chlorinated spacer, achieving 16.19% efficiency while improving crystallinity and resistance to oxygen and moisture. The device retained 95% of its initial efficiency after more than 1,600 hours in dry air and 80% after…
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'QR Jacking' easy and fast way to exploit a vulnerability in a trusted ecosystem.
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A year-long outdoor experiment in Milan found that a PCM-backed PV module had 45.2% lower median rear-side convective heat flux than a reference module. The researchers also found that PCM’s thermal history affected heat rejection, even when its rear surface was at the same temperature. The post…
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See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Have you ever gazed up at power lines and wondered how clean the electrons passing along them are? The answer is very different depending on where you are. Just look at the spectrum of blues in the map above. It charts the carbon intensity…
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Trane has launched a residential cold-climate air-source heat pump that operates at temperatures from -29 C to 46 C and is available in 3-ton, 4-ton and 5-ton versions using R-454B refrigerant. The system can deliver up to 107% of its rated heating capacity at -15 C and retain up to 85% at -29 C…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
DigiCert has launched Quantum Central, an enterprise management suite within its DigiCert ONE platform, to help organizations manage their transition to quantum-safe encryption. This tool consolidates cryptographic assets, tracks policy compliance, and automates remediation workflows, addressing…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
Qambria AG, a Swiss quantum infrastructure developer, has successfully closed a $2.4 million pre-seed funding round led by Syntropy. The company aims to commercialize a classical engine for quantum computing, focusing on software and control orchestration to integrate quantum processing units with…
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Dr Maria Alhajji is involved in teaching, research, student supervision, and contributing to departmental education and outreach initiatives. Read more: ‘Physics is not simply a collection of equations’ for this UL researcher
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
QuiX Quantum has partnered with Tohoku Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. (TEI-C) for exclusive distribution of its integrated photonic processing hardware in Japan. This includes the Alquor 2.0 quantum photonic processor and the PACU control unit. The partnership aims to accelerate access to…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
Mesa Quantum has raised $11.8 million in funding, led by Playground Global, bringing their total venture funding to nearly $16 million. This capital will accelerate the development and manufacturing of their chip-scale quantum sensors and alternative PNT infrastructure. Their technology, which…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
Infleqtion has achieved 30 entangled logical qubits on its commercial Sqale quantum computing platform, utilizing 80 physical neutral-atom qubits. This breakthrough, announced at Quantum World Congress 2026, was enabled by an AI-assisted logical circuit discovery and software-based loss correction…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
Mphasis and Copa Airlines partnered on a global Quantum Computing Challenge, bringing together academic teams to develop quantum optimization solutions for airline passenger re-accommodation during disruptions. The hackathon leveraged quantum algorithms and real operational data to improve…
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Victorian telecommunications and electrical infrastructure services company Decon Corporation has finalised a trial of solar laminate panels wrapped on a National Broadband Network fixed wireless monopole. The post Solar sleeves turn telecommunications towers into renewable power generators…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
IonQ's research shows that quantum generative machine learning models on their trapped-ion quantum processing units can more accurately detect ground-level changes from satellite radar imagery, especially with high-resolution data causing sparse pixel statistics. Their Quantum Circuit Born Machines…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
IonQ has signed an agreement with Florida International University (FIU) to provide and install an on-premises IonQ Superion 256 trapped-ion quantum computer by late 2027. This makes FIU IonQ's main academic partner in Florida and the first to have a 256-qubit system in the state. The quantum…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
QC Design has introduced Meridian, an AI-powered platform for optimizing fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) hardware. Meridian has demonstrated a 14.6x median reduction in logical error rates compared to existing methods and a 43% reduction against other frontier AI agents like GPT-6 Astra…
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High-performance quantum computing framework with a Python API and Rust simulation core
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
memQ Inc. has open-sourced its Distributed Quantum Compiler (memQ DQC), a modality-agnostic software framework for scaling quantum computing across multi-vendor QPU networks. This release aligns with U.S. federal directives and allows developers to model multi-QPU execution and analyze resource…
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A flaw in Cloudflare Containers let a paying customer read data that other customers' containers had left behind on the same server, Cloudflare and the researchers who found it said on Thursday. The data came from disk space that earlier containers had used and given up, not from any live workload…
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
memQ Inc. has released memQ DQC, an open-source Python framework for distributed quantum computing. It compiles and schedules quantum programs across multi-processor quantum architectures, addressing challenges in scaling quantum processing units beyond physical limitations. The framework allows…
Cointelegraph
Shielded Bitcoin would use zero-knowledge proofs and encrypted notes to hide transaction details without changing Bitcoin consensus, but researchers have raised questions about anonymity and quantum resistance.
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ESR, a Singapore-headquartered real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate and data centres, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Aquila Clean Energy APAC.
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AEMO has said that a record 9.1GW of new renewable energy and storage capacity connected to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in FY26.
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Salt in the air can wreak havoc with projects that lack the necessary corrosion resistance, proving costly for asset owners or the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies that built them. Alexander Gebert, sales director at Tobsteel, argues that quality stainless steel fasteners…
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Robert Hart / The Verge: Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are testing these systems precisely because they might behave in unpredictable, even dangerous, ways.
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Bitcoin researchers have proposed a system for private transfers directly on the network without requiring a soft fork or changes to its consensus rules. The Sept. 24 paper from [[alloc] init] researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin introduces Shielded Bitcoin, a…
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Pythonic wrapper around the ASI_Evolve (arXiv:2603.29640) autonomous evolutionary-search framework. Give it a problem and an evaluator; it runs until it finds a solution. CLI + --serve dashboard, cross-provider.
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Pythonic wrapper around the ASI_Evolve (arXiv:2603.29640) autonomous evolutionary-search framework. Give it a problem and an evaluator; it runs until it finds a solution. CLI + --serve dashboard, cross-provider.
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Pythonic wrapper around the ASI_Evolve (arXiv:2603.29640) autonomous evolutionary-search framework. Give it a problem and an evaluator; it runs until it finds a solution. CLI + --serve dashboard, cross-provider.
The Quantum Insider / Quantum Computing Report
By Sinan Utku Example 2: Implementing a Logical Qubit in a Surface Code Surface codes are a promising class of quantum error correction codes that will likely be used in fault-tolerant quantum computing. In a surface code, many physical data qubits collectively encode a logical qubit in a nonlocal…
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ADARx is the only maker of RNA-based drugs to go public since 2024 and the first RNAi biotech to price an IPO in the U.S. in more than a decade.
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Pythonic wrapper around the ASI_Evolve (arXiv:2603.29640) autonomous evolutionary-search framework. Give it a problem and an evaluator; it runs until it finds a solution. CLI + --serve dashboard, cross-provider.
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Tsinghua researchers developed C2C, allowing AI models to exchange internal information directly while reportedly improving collaborative inference speed and accuracy.
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Nature, Published online: 25 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03005-2 Many scientists use artificial intelligence in their work, but agents are increasingly soliciting researchers for collaborations.
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Pauli and Clifford algebra for quantum computing
CoinDesk
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen announced the hack shortly after independent researchers flagged unusual wallet movements.