Archives 2026

Everything described here is open source: https://github.com/spinsphere/nz-quantum-election Every election, pundits argue about who will go into coalition with whom. This year I tried something different. Instead of asking who wants to govern together, I asked which combination of parties should, if the only things that counted were the published evidence on their policies, how far […]

This weekend we made a game in 48 hours for the Global Quantum Game Jam 2026. The theme was quantum braiding. COHERENCE: Braid is a small civilization game with a twist: you do not build your civilization, you ask it questions, and you braid it. Your people are cohorts drawn as pairs of worldlines. Braiding […]

For the past few years one of the rabbit holes I have been diving down is one called Quantum-Safe Security. It goes by, and gets referred to by a few different and related names floating out there but the one I opt for is Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). A future where “quantum computers can break today’s […]

We are excited to launch Informaq, our quantum technology intelligence platform that aggregates, analyses, and summarises research, patents, news, and events from across the global quantum ecosystem. Keeping up with quantum technology is genuinely hard. Relevant developments are scattered across arXiv preprints, patent filings, conference proceedings, industry announcements, and government policy documents — published in […]