“A construction firm in Maine is suing a local bank after cyber thieves stole more than a half million dollars from the company in a sophisticated online bank heist” (as Bruce Schneier says, the “only way to mitigate this kind of [thing...is to] ensure that the person who has the ability to mitigate the risk is responsible for the risk”)
Another preprint from Wineland’s ion trap group demonstrates ion transport through Y-junctions of a surface-electrode trap. The work these folks have been putting out there in the last couple of months really looks exciting, and might signal a new phase in progress towards useful quantum computation.
