Weekly Review 38/2026: Another NVIDIA Surge, DNS with PQC, and a Quantum Computer with a Microscope

We bring you a weekly overview of the world of quantum computers, software, algorithms, networks, cryptography, and technologies, including the quantum business and investments. Sandia National Laboratories has introduced a new benchmark called QUOPS (Quantum Universal Operations Performance System), designed to enable comparisons of quantum computer performance across different architectures, technologies, and levels of error correction. Unlike commonly used metrics such as qubit count or gate fidelity, QUOPS measures how large and how fast practical quantum computations a system is actually capable of performing. The benchmark runs standardized random tasks, determines the processor's capability limits, and reports two main metrics: Q, representing the largest size of successfully executed quantum circuit, and Ω, representing the effective…