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Related video: Arkansas governor ponders future in post-Trump GOPRepublican U.S. Sen. James Lankford would seem to have all the conservative credentials he'd need to coast to re-election in deep-red Oklahoma.A devout Baptist, Lankford was the director of the nations largest Christian youth camp for more than a decade. He speaks out regularly against abortion and what he describes as excessive government spending. And his voting record in the Senate aligned with former President Donald Trumps position nearly 90% of the time.But like several other seemingly safe GOP incumbents, Lankford, who didn't even draw a primary opponent in 2016, finds himself under fierce attack by a challenger in his own party. The antagonist is a 29-year-old evangelical minister and political newcomer who managed to draw more than 2,000 people to a Freedom Rally" headlined by Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, at which Lankford was accused of being not conservative enough.When James (Lankford) certified the big lie, he joined the big lie," Jackson Lahmeyer told the raucous crowd in Norman, citing Lankford's failure to endorse Trump's false claims about the election outcome. The 2020 presidential election that was a stolen election and we will never, ever allow it to happen again. The state's GOP chairman, John Bennett, has already endorsed Lahmeyer in the race. Similar scenes are playing out in other red states where ultra right-wing challengers are tapping into anger among Republicans over Trump's election loss and coronavirus-related lockdowns. Some incumbents suddenly are scrambling to defend their right flank, heating up their own rhetoric on social media and ripping into President Joe Biden at every opportunity. In Texas, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who faces a contested reelection primary next year, is pushing looser gun laws than he ever previously embraced and proposing unprecedented state actions, including promises to build more walls on the Mexican border.I think its unquestionably attributable to the aftermath of the 2020 election and the insurrection and former President Trumps claims of voter fraud, said Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta.Some conservative incumbents are obvious targets for right-wing challenges notably U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney in Wyoming and Anthony Gonzalez in Ohio who voted to impeach Trump. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's offense was refusing to block Georgia's electoral votes from being awarded to Biden. But with the 2022 election cycle approaching, the backlash is also touching even those who backed Trump consistently through countless controversies. Texas' Abbott echoed Trump's partisan positions and has banked $55 million in campaign funds, more than any sitting governor in history.But he's drawn a challenge from Allen West, who until recently was the chairman of the Texas GOP. West, a tea party firebrand and former Florida congressman, has attacked Abbott's leadership after Democrats temporarily thwarted a GOP voting bill by decamping to Washington.And he can draw a crowd. Last year, West led a boisterous rally outside the governors mansion to demand an end to coronavirus lockdown restrictions.We cannot sit around and continue to do nothing, West told supporters in South Texas during one of his first campaign stops. Actually winning a primary is probably more than many challengers, including West, can expect. But they can succeed in pushing the party farther to the right while also raising their own profiles as public figures.Republican officeholders have faced challenges from the right in the past, but Trumps put a different name and spin to it" this time, said Pat McFerron, a Republican strategist and pollster in Oklahoma.As we become more self-selective with the media we consume, people find like-minded people in different social media channels and they think theyre in greater numbers than they are and feel they have an opportunity," he said. In Arkansas, Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a two-term incumbent, has drawn several GOP challengers, including the owner of a gun range that drew national attention for banning Muslims. Another is a former Arkansas Razorbacks football player whose campaign kickoff ad shows him firing an assault rifle and complaining that Democrats in Washington have been taken over by radical socialists." Boozman's opponents have criticized him for certifying the presidential election results. He may also draw fire because he is unusually mild-mannered for such a highly charged time. While he has historically focused on the state's agriculture industry and services for veterans, he now frequently mentions Trump in his campaign emails and even offered tickets to a Trump rally.Republican officials in Idaho would usually be considered among the farthest right in the nation, but they, too, are under pressure. Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has announced plans to challenge incumbent GOP Gov. Brad Little in 2022, and Bundy's People's Rights organization has been among those staging mask-burning rallies to protest coronavirus restrictions. The anti-incumbent exposure can even be seen in lower state-level races in blue states. In one of Virginias most solidly red state House districts, an attorney who worked on the Trump campaigns challenges defeated a seven-term incumbent in a June primary.I saw firsthand what happens when election integrity isnt maintained, challenger Wren Williams said in a campaign ad. Williams criticized Del. Charles Poindexter for failing to speak out against alleged voter fraud and defeated him by more than 25 points.In Oklahoma, Lankford was jarred by the party chairman's endorsement of his opponent, which he said was an unheard of" breach of traditional party neutrality. In response, hes quickly ramped up his criticism of Biden, hammering the president in particular on immigration.This is the problem, Lankford said in a recent video from the Texas-Mexico border with immigrants being processed behind him. This is the thing that Biden does not want you to see ... this is absolutely an open border situation.In the current political climate, it's hard for a Republican official to be safely conservative enough, said Abramowitz.You look at Sen. Lankford, there arent many Republican senators as conservative as him.___Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho; Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, and Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.

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Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford would seem to have all the conservative credentials he'd need to coast to re-election in deep-red Oklahoma.

A devout Baptist, Lankford was the director of the nations largest Christian youth camp for more than a decade. He speaks out regularly against abortion and what he describes as excessive government spending. And his voting record in the Senate aligned with former President Donald Trumps position nearly 90% of the time.

But like several other seemingly safe GOP incumbents, Lankford, who didn't even draw a primary opponent in 2016, finds himself under fierce attack by a challenger in his own party. The antagonist is a 29-year-old evangelical minister and political newcomer who managed to draw more than 2,000 people to a Freedom Rally" headlined by Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, at which Lankford was accused of being not conservative enough.

When James (Lankford) certified the big lie, he joined the big lie," Jackson Lahmeyer told the raucous crowd in Norman, citing Lankford's failure to endorse Trump's false claims about the election outcome. The 2020 presidential election that was a stolen election and we will never, ever allow it to happen again. The state's GOP chairman, John Bennett, has already endorsed Lahmeyer in the race.

Similar scenes are playing out in other red states where ultra right-wing challengers are tapping into anger among Republicans over Trump's election loss and coronavirus-related lockdowns. Some incumbents suddenly are scrambling to defend their right flank, heating up their own rhetoric on social media and ripping into President Joe Biden at every opportunity.

In Texas, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who faces a contested reelection primary next year, is pushing looser gun laws than he ever previously embraced and proposing unprecedented state actions, including promises to build more walls on the Mexican border.

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I think its unquestionably attributable to the aftermath of the 2020 election and the insurrection and former President Trumps claims of voter fraud, said Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta.

Some conservative incumbents are obvious targets for right-wing challenges notably U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney in Wyoming and Anthony Gonzalez in Ohio who voted to impeach Trump. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's offense was refusing to block Georgia's electoral votes from being awarded to Biden.

But with the 2022 election cycle approaching, the backlash is also touching even those who backed Trump consistently through countless controversies. Texas' Abbott echoed Trump's partisan positions and has banked $55 million in campaign funds, more than any sitting governor in history.

But he's drawn a challenge from Allen West, who until recently was the chairman of the Texas GOP. West, a tea party firebrand and former Florida congressman, has attacked Abbott's leadership after Democrats temporarily thwarted a GOP voting bill by decamping to Washington.

And he can draw a crowd. Last year, West led a boisterous rally outside the governors mansion to demand an end to coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

We cannot sit around and continue to do nothing, West told supporters in South Texas during one of his first campaign stops.

Actually winning a primary is probably more than many challengers, including West, can expect. But they can succeed in pushing the party farther to the right while also raising their own profiles as public figures.

Republican officeholders have faced challenges from the right in the past, but Trumps put a different name and spin to it" this time, said Pat McFerron, a Republican strategist and pollster in Oklahoma.

As we become more self-selective with the media we consume, people find like-minded people in different social media channels and they think theyre in greater numbers than they are and feel they have an opportunity," he said.

In Arkansas, Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a two-term incumbent, has drawn several GOP challengers, including the owner of a gun range that drew national attention for banning Muslims. Another is a former Arkansas Razorbacks football player whose campaign kickoff ad shows him firing an assault rifle and complaining that Democrats in Washington have been taken over by radical socialists."

Boozman's opponents have criticized him for certifying the presidential election results. He may also draw fire because he is unusually mild-mannered for such a highly charged time. While he has historically focused on the state's agriculture industry and services for veterans, he now frequently mentions Trump in his campaign emails and even offered tickets to a Trump rally.

Republican officials in Idaho would usually be considered among the farthest right in the nation, but they, too, are under pressure. Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has announced plans to challenge incumbent GOP Gov. Brad Little in 2022, and Bundy's People's Rights organization has been among those staging mask-burning rallies to protest coronavirus restrictions.

The anti-incumbent exposure can even be seen in lower state-level races in blue states. In one of Virginias most solidly red state House districts, an attorney who worked on the Trump campaigns challenges defeated a seven-term incumbent in a June primary.

I saw firsthand what happens when election integrity isnt maintained, challenger Wren Williams said in a campaign ad. Williams criticized Del. Charles Poindexter for failing to speak out against alleged voter fraud and defeated him by more than 25 points.

In Oklahoma, Lankford was jarred by the party chairman's endorsement of his opponent, which he said was an unheard of" breach of traditional party neutrality.

In response, hes quickly ramped up his criticism of Biden, hammering the president in particular on immigration.

This is the problem, Lankford said in a recent video from the Texas-Mexico border with immigrants being processed behind him. This is the thing that Biden does not want you to see ... this is absolutely an open border situation.

In the current political climate, it's hard for a Republican official to be safely conservative enough, said Abramowitz.

You look at Sen. Lankford, there arent many Republican senators as conservative as him.

___

Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho; Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, and Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.

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NEW YORK, July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --As per the findings of a revised market research by Persistence Market Research, the worldwide quantum computing market insight reached a valuation of around US$ 5.6 Bn in 2020, and is anticipated to surge at a CAGR of 33.7% over the next ten years.

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The electric power grid is undergoing unprecedented change. This change is due to decarbonization efforts, increased reliance on renewable and variable generation resources, the integration of distributed energy resources, and transportation electrification. In turn, these changes have required electric utilities to expand their monitoring and measurement efforts through metering infrastructure and distribution automation initiatives. All these efforts have resulted in the collection of mountains of data from the electric grid. While this significant increase in data collection enables better monitoring of the grid and enhanced decision making, we still need a robust computational foundation that can convert all this collected big data into actionable information.

As mathematical challenges increase and data becomes core to modern utility decision-making, our industry needs to make progress and draw from emerging analytics and computing technologies. Quantum computing is a ground-breaking information processing technology that can support efforts to address power system challenges and enable the grid of the future. Given the promising applications to the power grid, this is an area of research that has really caught my attention lately. While quantum computing applications to the power grid have remained mostly unexamined, forward-looking utilities are exploring the next step to enhance these analytics by understanding how emerging quantum computing technologies can be leveraged to provide higher service levels.

Building the future grid will require an overall view of the quantum computing technology applications in power systems, such as the dynamic interaction of the transmission and distribution systems. According to a recent IEEE article by Rozhin Eskandarpour and a team of researchers from the University of Denver Electrical and Computing Engineering Department, current computational technologies might not be able to adequately address the needs of the future grid.

The most notable change is observed in the role of the distribution grid and customers in system design and management. Transmission and distribution systems were frequently operated as distinct systems but are becoming more of an integrated system. The underlying hypothesis was that at the substation, the transmission system would supply a prescribed voltage, and the distribution system will supply the energy to individual customers. However, as various types of distributed energy resources, including generation, storage, electric vehicles, and demand response, are integrated into the distribution network, there may be distinct interactions between the transmission and distribution systems. Distributed generations transient and small-signal stability problems are one instance that changes the energy systems dynamic nature. Therefore, developing more comprehensive models that include the dynamic relationships between transmission and distribution systems, and relevant computational tools that can solve such models will be essential in the future. Furthermore, better scheduling models are needed to design viable deployment and use of distributed energy resources.

Eskandarpour et al. describe other potential quantum computing applications for the power grid, including optimization, planning, and logistics; forecasting; weather prediction; wind turbine design; cybersecurity; grid security; and grid stability.

Given that I am both professionally embedded in covering the newest innovations within the power sector and nearing the end of a Ph.D. program at the University of Denver, it is not particularly surprising that a new university-industry research consortium has caught my attention. I am excited to share about this ground-breaking initiative and its potential role in building the future grid.

The University of Denver, in collaboration with various utilities, has established a consortium related to envisioning the quantum upgraded electric system of tomorrow. QUEST is the clever acronym that has been adopted for this university-industry consortium. The consortium aims to enhance university-industry collaborations to solve emerging challenges in building the future grid by utilizing quantum information and quantum computation. The consortium will develop new quantum models, methodologies, and algorithms to solve a range of grid problems faster and more accurately. Topics of interest include:

Industry members financially support the QUEST consortium, and membership is voluntary and open to any public or private organization active in the power and energy industry. For more information, contact Dr. Amin Khodaei at the University of Denver, School of Engineering and Computer Science.

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The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said that the new platform called "Q Crypton," unveiled at an online conference on July 21, can verify the quantum safety of various cryptographic systems such as RSA, which is a public-key cryptosystem that is widely used for securing data transmission, and next-generation quantum-resistant passwords.

Q Crypton laid the foundation for verifying cryptographic algorithms and the performance of programs that will be used in quantum computers, ETRI said, adding the platform would be released step by step through a web browser to prevent hacking using quantum computers.

"The fear of incapacitating modern public key cryptography with quantum computers is coming to reality. Based on the world's best technology in cryptographic quantum safety, we will work hard to establish next-generation security infrastructure early," ETRI's cybersecurity research division head Kim Ik-kyun said in a statement on July 21.

Quantum cryptography is an essential security solution for safeguarding critical information. Data encoded in a quantum state is virtually unhackable without quantum keys which are basically random number tables used to decipher encrypted information. Binary digital electronic computers are based on transistors and capacitors with data encoded into binary digits (bits). Quantum computation uses quantum bits or qubits.

Q Crypton platform can analyze and simulate the quantitative safety of passwords more accurately as it can consider various factors such as different qubit sizes, quantum computer chip structures, and an error rate. Because the platform is equipped with visualization programming technology and a library of key computations for encryption, it is possible to develop quantum algorithms needed for encryption quickly and efficiently.

ETRI said the platform schematized quantum circuits so that numerous and complex formulas can be seen intuitively at a glance and shortened so that they are not inputted one by one. the platform provides the language processing of quantum algorithms, verification using virtual machines, and a function to analyze the amount of quantum resources.

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) refers to cryptographic algorithms that are thought to be secure against an attack by a quantum computer. Even though current, publicly known, experimental quantum computers lack the processing power to break any real cryptographic algorithm, many cryptographers are designing new algorithms to prepare for a time when quantum computing becomes a threat.

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Since its founding in 1993, Red Hat Inc. has seen significant growth and witnessed first hand the transformation from an analog to a digital economy.

With years of experience under its belt, Red Hat is looking on the horizon to prepare for emerging technology with its partnership with IBM Corp., giving it a front-row seat to technological progress. The software company employs a variety of experts across different departments to maintain the massive overhead of running a large tech business.

We typically organize our teams around horizontal technology sectors, said Stephen Watt (pictured, right), distinguished engineer and head of emerging technologies at Red Hat. I have an edge team, cloud networking team, a cloud storage team, application platforms team. Weve got different areas that we attack work and opportunities, but the good ideas can come from a variety of different places, so we try and leverage co-creation with our customers and our partners.

Watt, along with Parul Singh (pictured, left), senior software engineer at Red Hat, and Luke Hinds (pictured, middle), senior software engineer at Red Hat, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Medias livestreaming studio, during the recentRed Hat Summit. They discussed quantum supremacy, how Red Hat manages its consumers needs, signature server and more.(* Disclosure below.)

One of the many new technologies emerging is quantum computing, which uses qubits instead of bits and is able to process an exponential amount of data compared to its older counterpart.

Quantum computers are evolving, and they have been around, but right now you see that they are going to be the next thing, Singh said. We define quantum supremacy as, say you have any program that you run or any problem that you solve on a classical computer, a quantum computer would be giving you the results faster.

Because quantum computers are not as easily accessible as classical computers, Red Hat has sought out a solution that combines OpenShifts classical components with quantum computing, taking the results and integrating them into classical workloads.

Signature server, or sigstore, is an umbrella organization containing various open-source projects.

Sigstore will enable developers to sign software artifacts, bills and materials, containers, binaries, all of these different artifacts that are part of a software supply chain, Hinds said. Its very similar to a blockchain. It allows you to have cryptographic-proof auditing of our software supply chain, and weve made sigstore so that its easy to adopt, because traditional cryptographic signing tools are a challenge for a lot of developers to implement in their open-source projects.

Open-source boasts the advantage of being transparent, allowing everyone to see the code with no hidden surprises or security issues lurking underneath. Another advantage of open-source software is agency, according to Watt.

If youre waiting on a vendor to go do something, if its proprietary software, you dont have much agency to get that vendor to go do that thing. Whereas the open source, if youre tired of waiting around, you can just submit the patch, he said. So people can then go and take sigstore, run it as a smaller internal service. Maybe they discover a bug. They can fix that bug, contribute it back to the operationalizing piece, as well as the traditional package software, to make it a much more robust and open service. So you bring that transparency and the agency back to the software-as-a-service model as well.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLEs and theCUBEs coverage of Red Hat Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Red Hat Summit. Neither Red Hat Inc., the sponsor for theCUBEs event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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