Google released that they have come up with a refinement to Shor's algorithm, which is a quantum computing algorithm for factoring which can be used for breaking encryption.

I wrote this up before I knew about Google's work: https://blog.spicelabs.io/posts/2026-03-30-caring-about-pqc/
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