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Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors' (developers.slashdot.org)
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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 University of St Andrews, the claims were undermined by omitted data, selective plotting, and basic Python errors that concealed alternative results. Microsoft, for its part, says the bugs were minor and stands by its findings and roadmap.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What's the next biggest tech grift after "AI" and quantum computing? Crypto scams? What else?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Anything that can is promoted as being able to do 'everything' instead of being the specialized tool that it is. LLMs have some limited uses but are being promoted to do the things they are terrible at and will never be AGI as an example of the current trend. GenAI being promoted as being able to create entire movies from scratch is another exaggeration of it's actual near future capabilities.

Humanoid robots is next on my list of tech bro bullshit as it is already in the works.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Fuckers at 1X keep trying to recruit me to work on their horseshit. NEO is actually just remote-controlled: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-thats-coming-to-live-with-you-its-still-part-human-68515d44

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Biotech and generic engineering can still be pulled into mainstream.