The big quantum physics story of the week was the Nobel Prize for Physics award. There’s a useful explanation of quantum mechanics https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/
When you throw a ball at a wall, you can be sure it will bounce back at you. You would be extremely surprised if the ball suddenly appeared on the other side of a solid wall. This is exactly the type of phenomenon that has given quantum physics a reputation for being bizarre and unintuitive. ©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Working my way through the latest Air Street Capital ‘State of AI’ report; 313 rather dense slides. No summary yet.
Low power high bit rate random number generator space rated, Heriot Watt development and Nature paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-025-01100-2 Heriot Watt A 2-Gbps low-SWaP quantum random number generator with photonic integrated circuits for satellite applications
The QRNG architecture can be integrated with an overhead power consumption of just 7.93 W, accounting for the opto-electronics and FPGA implementation, providing fast random number generation at up to 2 Gbps. We demonstrate the real-time seeding of a free-space decoy-state quantum key distribution system using our QRNG. Our design and implementation provides a practical solution for QRNGs requiring low-power and high bit rates.
Cunning Systems 