U.S. Moves to Protect Quantum Research From Foreign Spying

Quantum research is now being treated as a foreign-intelligence target

Scoop: A pending executive order would task the FBI and intelligence community with boosting U.S. quantum research protections against foreign spying. Order could come as soon as today. Reported w/ @not_amazn_alexa

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