International Workshop on Quantum Compilation is accepting submissions. The workshop is in Toronto 19--20 September. #quantum #compilers #quantumcomputing #cfp quantum-compilers.github.io/iwqc2026/

Friend of the shop @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social will be at Sloan's tomorrow!

Immigration make Britain brilliant

We're happy to announce our newest micrograntee - Aleks Kissinger! Aleks is a Professor of Quantum Computing in the Quantum group in Oxford Computer Science. He's received a microgrant to develop ZX Calculus Online. Learn more: unitary.foundation/grants/2026_...

Apparently German real estate company Quantum has successfully sued the Dutch national quantum computing initiative Quantum Delta NL for trademark infringement on their use of "quantum". blog.galalaw.com/post/102mp68... www.boek9.nl/system/files...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Now, for Chrome users: a 4 gigabyte LLM sneaks onto your computer whether you ask for it or not! It's possible to remove it, but hard to keep it out. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

Back in UK. At #qctip in Oxford.

github.com/Quantinuum/z... stay zixy

Today's gig at Cambridge Computer Laboratory, entitled "Andy Pitts Says 'Type Soundness proofs are two a penny.' But I Think They're Cheaper Than That" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QUq...

After a year in Japan today is my last day at Quantinuum's Tokyo office. It's been a great privilege to work with such great colleagues.

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

This makes me uneasy.

From my brilliant colleagues: Fault-tolerant demonstrations of QAOA and HHL. This actually came out last week, but I failed to post about it! #quantum #quantumcomputing #quantinuum #ftqc #qec arxiv.org/abs/2603.04584

The firm of which I am the Dowager Duchess is hiring! We want lively brains for new explains and well taught wains. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS044/l...

2026 : The year of Linux on the Desktop.

If you are interested in working in the intersection of QEC and software check out our job posting for a position at Quantinuum: jobs.eu.lever.co/quantinuum/b... Areas of research include QEC software development, logical noise modeling, resource estimation, QEC/Hardware co-design, and more.

Absolutely love this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up... Kudos to the Norwegian Consumer Council for their efforts to fight enshittification! www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl... Read their report here: storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/0...

Google AI Overview: > The Magit forge package does not currently provide a native > interface for .... <thing I want to do> > --> some link. Further down the linked thread, the feature has existed since 2023. Never mind "general intelligence", this is not even competent information retrieval. 😡

arxiv.org/abs/2602.22211 #quantum #qec #quantinuum

"Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political position." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...

10 years after its founding, driven by the energy, enthusiasm, & dedication of the community @quantum-journal.bsky.social quietly published paper #2000 some days ago. At least I think this is a big deal, big shout out to the founders & all authors, reviewers, editors, board members & contributors!

After a recommendation many years ago I am finally watching this talk while I struggle with powerpoint: pirsa.org/22100109

#bluesky "Discover" feed : 80% people I already follow, 10% pictures of dogs and cats, 10% American business "news" that I block on sight. Are others getting similar? I remember it wasn't always like this.

Check out this course, if you want to learn about our quantum pictures! Link: neurossance.com/courses/quan...

Gonna post it again... Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Newly published in Quantum: Minimising the number of edges in LC-equivalent graph states by Hemant Sharma, Kenneth Goodenough, Johannes Borregaard, Filip Rozpędek, and Jonas Helsen doi.org/10.22331/q-2...

Very cool.

$ tail -1 /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 www.washingtonpost.com

I am giving a talk about automatic formal verification of computer hardware using Harmonic's Aristotle system at the University of Cambridge at their CS department on Thursday 26 February 2026 at 2PM in room FW26. The talk is open to the public. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

want to escape serfdom? time’s running out to start piping your entire workflow through a Clasp stack hosted on a Worgret instance and then sieving that output into LiBit bottles to get churned up into something Fluss can read and tokenize in the cloud with Nonk

Our first ZX-calculus paper was written in 2007 in the Alborz mountains in Iran. Let's hope that the Iranian people can get what "they" want. (RIP Hassan) www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.c...

Not a lot of surprises for people following closely, but a pretty good summary of where AI-OS is in 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...

I almost missed this from Scott Aaronson: > Meanwhile, Quantinuum took a victory lap, boasting of their recent successes in a way that I considered basically justified. scottaaronson.blog?p=9425 cc: @quantinuum.bsky.social

subscribe to 404 Media if you want to see a few people do the news half a year before corporate media reports it

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Interesting article, especially the part about big companies.

This is horrific. AI hallucinates references, Google Scholar swallows them, libraries adapt their records to Google Scholar as ground truth, and an inexistent paper becomes reality.

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Scientists should read this. artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...

In search of better work–life balance, @spendier.bsky.social gave up her job as a tenured physics professor and looked for jobs in industry. The transition required repackaging her skills. She now runs @xprize.org’s competition in quantum applications. #whatcanphysicistsdo

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

Want to hear more about #quantinuum's Helios #quantum computer? There's a webinar. It's on Teams, Tuesday 11 December, twice!. -- 3pm GMT / 9am MT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37fe2b... -- 11pm GMT / 4pm MT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/35bd82...

Since the community here is very familiar with VQAs and their pitfalls, Here's my 2 cents on the the topic, would love to hear what everyone thinks too. TLDR: "VQAs are doomed, and that's great news for QC" 1/ however long it's gonna take

RIP Jimmy Cliff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChr...