Microsoft aggressive roadmap to deliver a commercial quantum supercomputer by 2029 has now hit a bit of a snag, and it not because of a complex sub zero dilution refrigerator, but rather because of a few lines of basic Python code. A new critique published in the scientific journal Nature argues that simple software errors effectively manufactured the breakthrough that Microsoft foundational research claimed back in 2025 into Majorana based topological qubits. Topological quantum computing, the...
