Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors'

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By BeauHDJun 24, 2026, 1:00 pm185 ptsTrendingTop
A peer-reviewed Nature critique argues that Microsoft's 2025 Majorana quantum-computing breakthrough -- and its claim that it could enable "a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years" -- is fundamentally flawed. According to Dr Henry Legg, a lecturer at the…

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