GTA VI's boxed copy skips the disc

GTA VI costs $80, and the box has no disc

A Nature critique hits Microsoft's quantum claims

Cloudflare opens OAuth apps to every customer

Boxed copies hold a one-time download code, so buyers still have to download the game. Unlike Nintendo's game-key cards, it can't be shared, since everyone needs their own copy.

Standard copies cost $79.99 and the Ultimate Edition costs $99.99, with pre-orders opening June 25. Rockstar says the series has shipped over 470 million units.

Rockstar's announcement says boxed copies go on sale November 12 to support pre-loading. At least one retailer, Video Games Plus, has said it won't stock the game.

GTA VI launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S. Rockstar didn't immediately tell The Verge why it dropped discs or whether a disc version will come.

Microsoft's Topological Gap Protocol is an automated test that labels device regions fit or unfit for quantum computing. Legg says simply shifting measurement windows can flip its verdict.

Microsoft has chased this approach for more than 20 years, using a 90-year-old physics theory. Its second-generation Majorana chip is 1,000 times more reliable than the first, it says.

Microsoft showed only its test's favorable results, St Andrews said. Its unpublished raw data appears to show disorder, not the clean gap qubits need.

Legg's critique of Microsoft's February 2025 Nature paper came out this week, and Nature also published Microsoft's rebuttal. In 2021, a Microsoft-backed lab retracted an earlier Majorana paper.

Customers grant an app scoped access through a standard OAuth consent screen, and can revoke it from the dashboard. Cloudflare says it suits SaaS integrations, internal platforms and agentic tools.

To get there, Cloudflare upgraded its Hydra OAuth engine, updating 132.5M database rows. API response times at the 95th percentile fell 45%, from 185ms to 101ms.

Cloudflare says the upgrade hit a snag. One Hydra migration corrupted some valid OAuth sessions, causing more 403 errors until engineers restored the data.

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth clients on June 3, after a year of onboarding early partners. Until then, outside OAuth worked only through a few hand-picked integrations like PlanetScale.

Valve's Steam Machine reviews are in, and The Verge calls it the most ambitious console it's played, cool, quiet and far smaller than a PS5. But a $650 PS5 still showed sharper images in Cyberpunk 2077 in its tests.

Google's $99 Home Speaker sounds big and didn't miss a wake word in two days of testing, The Verge found, though it's finicky. Google confirmed last week it's ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but existing units stay supported.

Apple released the second iOS 27 developer beta, continuing tests of Siri AI, its rebuilt assistant with personal context and on-screen awareness. Apple plans the first public beta in July and the final release this fall.

Qualcomm agreed to buy Modular, whose software runs AI models across CPUs, GPUs and other chips without rewrites. Modular CEO Chris Lattner says joining Qualcomm gives it scale, and the deal should close in the second half of 2026.

Microsoft now calls 8GB of RAM "great for everyday use" in its Surface buying guide, with 16GB needed for Copilot+ PC features. Windows Latest notes Microsoft spent two years pushing 16GB as essential for Windows 11.

Cerebras shares fell 10% after its first earnings report since its IPO, as it forecast core gross margin shrinking to 36% to 38% from 46.5%. First-quarter revenue still rose 92%, and the stock is down 28% from its opening pop.

Nearly 400 local newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging they "scraped, copied, and ingested" their work to train AI models without permission or pay. It adds to copyright suits from The New York Times, Ziff Davis and Encyclopedia Britannica.

A House panel was set to vote Wednesday on the Ratepayer Protection Act. It would push state utilities to consider making data center builders pay for grid upgrades. It's one of Congress's first attempts to make tech firms cover AI's power costs.

Meta is being pressed by the Trump administration to submit its AI models for voluntary government review, the New York Times reported. It's the only major US AI developer without such a deal, and Meta says it hopes to sign soon.

China's LineShine debuted at number one on the Top500 supercomputer list at 2.198 exaflops, the first Chinese machine on top since 2017. It runs entirely on CPUs rather than AI-style GPUs and draws about 42.2 megawatts.

Reid Hoffman said "SpaceX isn't an AI company" and called xAI "a complete train wreck" on the Pioneers of AI podcast. He argued SpaceX uses its market cap to buy AI companies and "buy your way into relevance."

AT&T is raising prices on select retired unlimited plans by $10 a month for one line or $20 for several, adding 20GB of hotspot data. Plans activated July 24 to November 1, 2025 change in August; older ones changed in April.

Disney agreed to a $50M settlement of a class action claiming it forced YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream to carry ESPN, inflating subscription prices. Disney denies wrongdoing but agreed to consider streaming bundles without ESPN.

Valve clarified that every Steam Machine customers are signing up for will ship with a single 16GB stick of RAM, not two 8GB sticks. It told Gamers Nexus it "misspoke" earlier, and said the setup might change in future builds.

Xbox is testing a feature with Insiders that lets you play a game over the cloud while its update downloads on your console. It means no waiting for a big patch to finish before jumping in.

Commodore unveiled the Callback 8020, a flip phone that blocks social media apps, web browsers and email at the system and DNS level. It runs Sailfish OS with Android app support, costs $500 to $640 and targets a Q4 2026 ship date.