Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 31/32 2026

Quantum computing is moving from research milestones toward commercial infrastructure, with hardware breakthroughs, foundry investment, and enterprise pilots landing in the same window. Cybersecurity teams are being pushed by regulators and by their own recovery failures to prove resilience rather than assume it, while post-quantum migration deadlines turn from guidance into law. Underneath both, ICT infrastructure itself is being rebuilt around distributed, AI-integrated architectures and multi-billion dollar connectivity investment.

Date

August 14, 2026

ICT & Tech Insights

Thomas Allgeyer

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Quantum Computing

SAXON Q's diamond-based quantum computer hit 10+ qubits and 99.98 percent single-qubit fidelity at room temperature, no cryogenic cooling required
IBM is targeting demonstrated quantum advantage in 2026, with Starling, its first large-scale error-corrected quantum computer, slated for 2029
D-Wave's peer-reviewed Nature research showed a two-qubit gate at roughly 99.9 percent fidelity with gate times near 500 nanoseconds
NVIDIA's new quantum LDPC codes protect 110 logical qubits on just 990 physical qubits, versus 70,000+ for rotated surface codes at the same distance
Quantum Computing Inc's Q2 2026 results included the NHanced Semiconductors acquisition, an early Fab 2 launch, and a five-system order from Planck Dynamics
IBM hosted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to mark the launch of Anderon, America's first pure-play quantum wafer foundry
E.ON and WISER ran a hybrid quantum machine learning trial to sharpen energy demand forecasting, still limited by hardware noise
A landscape review scored seven emerging quantum hardware modalities, including Quantum Computing Inc, Microsoft, D-Wave, and Quantum Brilliance, on manufacturing readiness and enterprise integration

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Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience

Fenix24 argued backups do not equal recovery unless they are verified intact, isolated from the threat actor, and restorable at scale
CIO coverage introduced mean time to clean recovery as a resilience metric, going beyond RTO and RPO
The CMMC Phase 2 pause left defense contractors with open questions on self-attestation, third-party assessments, and False Claims Act exposure
Shadow APIs and weak system-to-system authentication were flagged as an attack surface outgrowing most vulnerability management programs
Zero Trust rollouts keep failing in isolated pieces, with device trust breaking down wherever endpoint management coverage is incomplete
The EU Cyber Resilience Act sets 11 September 2026 as the date incident reporting obligations take effect
A new Trust Modernization framework ties federal PQC deadlines of 31 December 2030 and 2031 to Zero Trust governance, not just an algorithm swap
A $89 million-plus Coldcard wallet breach traced back to a firmware bug defaulting to predictable software-based random number generation
Google Cloud's PQC roadmap targets full readiness by 2029, with Cloud KMS PQC algorithms already generally available
AttackIQ's AVA platform was selected by the Department of War as its enterprise platform for Adversarial Exposure Validation

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ICT Infrastructure and Digital Transformation

The global Telecom ICT Infrastructure market is projected to grow from $165.33 billion in 2024 to $286.48 billion by 2032, a 6.3 percent CAGR
NTT's C89 strategy folds terrestrial networks, HAPS, LEO and GEO satellites, and Earth observation into one ICT architecture, broader than Starlink's LEO-only model
Lebanon signed $150 million in World Bank financing for its Digital Acceleration Project, including the Dawlati Leb one-stop government portal
NVIDIA's Blackwell delivers up to 50x higher throughput per megawatt and 35x lower cost per token than Hopper, already in production at Roche and Eli Lilly
Enterprise technology architecture is shifting from centralized applications toward distributed ecosystems spanning cloud, edge, and AI and data platforms
JPMorganChase's Global Technology Applied Research group and AWS's Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab published joint research from their ongoing collaboration
QNX's ASIL D, SIL 3, Class C, and ISO/SAE 21434 certifications were positioned against the EU Cyber Resilience Act and FDA cyber-device rules as a revenue continuity requirement

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Thanks to Christian B., Dino Karanikas, Alan Baratz, Krysta Svore, Tom L., Yuping Huang, Arvind Krishna, Jay Gambetta, Ann Dunkin, Alex G. Lee, Heath Renfrow, Bill O'Connell, Jen Sovada, Gene Magerr, Chad Wolcott, Francesco Rosati, David Wilkinson, Denis Mandich, Erlander Lo, Carl Wright, Priyanka Pakhare, Oliver Schöb, Dimitri Stephanou, Stephen Peters, Ali Khan, Romina Yalovetzky, Jim Hirsch and everyone else who contributed insights to this edition.

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Frequently asked questions

Is quantum computing becoming commercially usable?

It is moving from research milestones toward commercial infrastructure. IBM targets demonstrated quantum advantage in 2026 and its error-corrected Starling system in 2029. SAXON Q's diamond-based machine reached 10+ qubits and 99.98 percent single-qubit fidelity at room temperature, and NVIDIA's new codes protect 110 logical qubits on just 990 physical ones.

Are backups enough to recover from a cyberattack?

No. Fenix24 argues backups only equal recovery when they are verified intact, isolated from the threat actor and restorable at scale. CIO coverage introduced mean time to clean recovery as a resilience metric beyond RTO and RPO. Zero Trust rollouts also keep failing wherever endpoint management coverage is incomplete.

How fast is the telecom ICT infrastructure market growing?

From $165.33 billion in 2024 to a projected $286.48 billion by 2032, a 6.3 percent CAGR. Architectures are changing with it. NTT's C89 strategy folds terrestrial networks, HAPS, LEO and GEO satellites into one design, and NVIDIA says Blackwell delivers up to 50x higher throughput per megawatt than Hopper.