This title is painfully sensationalist. Physicists simulated a wormhole using a quantum computer, they did not create one.
Also:
>To avoid further confusion with wormhole in the sci-fi sense of a passageway that a person can fly through...
I don't know if there is a name for this flavor of "sorry-not-sorry", but it's upsetting that a professional writer would engage in it. The wormhole did not have to be a full blown "science fiction" gate that people can "fly through" for the article to have been accurate. It could have been a nanometer-sized space that existed for a microsecond, across which a single bit of data was transmitted.