Daily Tech News 26 June 2026

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As we saw yesterday, Micron has locked in contracts delivering the company 90% margins. (The Register)

For the next five years.
Apple has raised prices on everything except its phones by between 20% and 30%. (Notebook Check)

Apple's memory prices were starting to look almost reasonable given the chaos going on in the PC market.

No longer.

Also, all the high-end models like the 512GB Mac Studio are simply gone.

The MacBook Neo now starts at $699 rather than $599.

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The most expensive Mac now costs $14,399 - and it only has 96GB of RAM. (WCCFTech)

I bought 96GB of RAM six months ago for $300. Yes, it was older, slower DDR4, but that was already months into the Rampocalypse and Apple now charges that much for 12GB.
Apple will not be releasing M6 Pro or Max versions. (WCCFTech)

Those will wait for the M7 range.

Meanwhile we're still waiting for the M5 Ultra - there was no M4 Ultra - but not making any plans to buy it given the pricing of the M3 Ultra models I just mentioned.
The Chuwi UniBook, featuring Intel's low-end Wildcat Lake processor, is now available in the US for $449. (Liliputing)

It has a lower resolution screen than the MacBook Neo, but has ten I/O ports including wired Ethernet compared with just three on the Neo. Weight is almost identical as well.

And it's now significantly cheaper rather than just barely.
Re-reviewing AMD's Ryzen 5800X3D. (Tom's Hardware)

It's back and it's exactly the same as it was before but $100 cheaper.

If you mostly want to play games and you have a good graphics card and already have a bunch of DDR4 memory, it might make sense. But at $350 the eight core 5800X3D costs more than the sixteen core 5900XT, and unless you only play games it might not be the best choice.

I think I might go for the 5900XT. I checked the Passmark subscores and it actually performs well except on a couple of specific tests where it is limited by the DDR4 bandwidth. For the stuff I tend to do it will be twice as fast as the 5800X3D.
If you're looking for a cheap DDR5 CPU, AMD's 9600X and 7600X are discounted right now. (WCCFTech)

To $180 and $150 respectively.
Xbox prices are going up again, and the 2TB model is going away. (WCCFTech)

I have an Xbox Series X. In my closet. In the original packaging. Which it has never left.
On the plus side, Microsoft has extended free Windows 10 updates to October 2027. (Bleeping Computer)

So there's that.
Anthropic says that Chinese competitor Alibaba must be ~~published~~ punished for infringing on their copyright on Claude. (Ars Technica)

Stop laughing, this is serious.
IBM has demonstrated its first chip made on a 0.7nm process. (IBM)

This isn't expected to reach production for another five years, but in the photos you can see the true scale of the advance because you can count the individual silicon atoms. They use a transmission electron microscope to scan the chip, and it can actually resolve that level of detail.
Qualcomm is preparing new server CPUs for launch in 2028. (WCCFTech)

The Dragonfly C1000 will feature 256 cores running at 5GHz and will support PCIe 7.0.
At the other end of the server scale is the Rmatamini P99M. (Liliputing)

It's a compact 8"x8"x6" box with a sixteen core Intel CPU, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD, and an Nvidia graphics card, and starts at just $239.

There's a catch or two: The CPU is an Intel Xeon E5-2698v3 from 2014, the memory is DDR4 (which might be good or bad depending), and the Nvidia GPU starts with the GTS 450 from 2010. For $369 you get upgraded to the much more capable GTX 1650.

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Disclaimer: Well, technically.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:30 AM (6wpGE)

2 G'Day everyone TGIF

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2026 04:30 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Pixy, on your website, there was this comment yesterday:

1 Apple just "bumped" their prices. A fully tricked-out Macbook Pro is now over $10,000, with each 2 TB of storage costing $1,000, and adding 64 GB of RAM is $1,600. I wasn't going to buy one yesterday, and I'm definitely not buying one today.

Is that true?

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)

4 Very yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 26, 2026 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

5 BOING!

Chicken grilled. Shoulder roast slow grilling - very slow.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 26, 2026 04:34 AM (RkR9o)

6 Very ouch.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)

7 Good morning! Trash and recycling are down to the curb, coffee is percolating and the dogs are snoring. Gonna do some work here in the office and then do some planning for a hop down to the coast tomorrow.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 04:38 AM (3Ope8)

8 Very ouch.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)
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Don't worry. It's very dead.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 26, 2026 04:42 AM (RkR9o)

9 8 Very ouch.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)
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Don't worry. It's very dead.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 26, 2026 04:42 AM (RkR9o)

haha I wasn't referring to the chicken, I was responding to:

4 Very yes.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 26, 2026 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:44 AM (6wpGE)

10 I hope you made enough for all of us.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

11 You still have recycling? COVID-19 killed it here. You know what? I am happy. No more sorting trash.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 04:47 AM (qFwJc)

12 Long commute again
See you when I get there

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2026 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)

13 Guten morgen, horde
****

Alibaba must be published . Interesting typo/autocorrect.

Posted by: clarence at June 26, 2026 04:49 AM (za6ca)

14 I have recycling where I am, and it's great because they have no limits on how much you can put out. As long as it's sorted and in containers, they'll collect it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 26, 2026 04:50 AM (BLOW1)

15 13 Alibaba must be published . Interesting typo/autocorrect.
Posted by: clarence at June 26, 2026 04:49 AM (za6ca)

Here's another typo:

I you mostly want to play games

(We're just trying to help.)

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:51 AM (6wpGE)

16 Seniors in Murfreesboro, TN try a slip and slide:

https://tinyurl.com/mrx8mb4d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 04:56 AM (7RYym)

17 14 I have recycling where I am, and it's great because they have no limits on how much you can put out. As long as it's sorted and in containers, they'll collect it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 26, 2026 04:50 AM (BLOW1)

I tossed a lidded plastic container about half-full of old, dried-out putty into a regular-trash bin one time and a loitering local spaced-out druggie type dumpster-dived to retrieve it and said something like, "Plastic! Recycle!" and tossed it into the plastice-recycling bin.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:59 AM (6wpGE)

18 platice-->plastic
moar covfefe

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 05:00 AM (6wpGE)

19 Apple just "bumped" their prices. A fully tricked-out Macbook Pro is now over $10,000, with each 2 TB of storage costing $1,000, and adding 64 GB of RAM is $1,600. I wasn't going to buy one yesterday, and I'm definitely not buying one today.

Is that true?
Posted by: m

$10,149.00.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2026 05:00 AM (ffi9I)

20 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 26, 2026 05:04 AM (V0/Sp)

21 We have blue recycling bins, black trash bins and green lawn/garden bins. They get pretty grumpy if anything other than brush, leaves and lawn trimmings end up ion the green bin. They never even look in the other bins.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 05:05 AM (3Ope8)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

23 The only thing of any value is aluminum cans. Everything else the city had to pay someone to take off our hands.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 05:12 AM (qFwJc)

24 I bought a Samsung S10 Lite with the pogo keyboard. With the Amazon Prime Day Discounts the tablet $237.00 and the keyboard was $88.00. Now that I have it set up , it's going to work just fine for doing basic office tasks, surfing the web, watching media. An interesting feature of Samsung tablets is the DEX functionality has it allows for multiple resizable windows on the desktop. Essentially turning a tablet into a rudimentary PC. A less interesting feature of Samsung tablets is all there baked in software that you can't delete. At least you can hide them. The last move was to use Microsoft's Launcher to get the desktop set up exactly the way I want. I may have got lucky and found something that can replace my aging Surface Go 2 which has become basically useless because the battery lass about one hour.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2026 05:16 AM (ffi9I)

25 Stop laughing, this is serious.
****

You provide IT support for Ace of Spades. Self-named MORONS . What did you expect?

Posted by: clarence at June 26, 2026 05:18 AM (za6ca)

26 I tried to give my blue recycling bin back to the city. They were not amused. When I asked them how much money they were making off selling the "recycled" material , they were even less amused with me. Effectively , i'm warehousing their recycling bin until I move or die.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2026 05:22 AM (ffi9I)

27
The only thing of any value is aluminum cans. Everything else the city had to pay someone to take off our hands.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

Tup.

We have a guy here in Sussex who drives around in a beater truck towing a trailer who collects metal for recycling. Washers, dryers, stoves, dishwashers and almost anything smaller composed of metal.

He makes money performing that service. No fee, just pile your offerings at the end of your driveway.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 26, 2026 05:23 AM (s9VOe)

28 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2026 05:28 AM (pZ64F)

29 Accomack county provides a transfer station for those residents without private trash pickup. There is a trash compactor that accepts anything you can toss in. Only caveat is that it must be under 4’ long. There are recycling dumpsters if you want to bother yourself. I generally don’t except for glass. Virginia doesn’t do bottle/can returns.

Posted by: Accomack at June 26, 2026 05:29 AM (/Chlc)

30 I'm glad I got my MacBook when I did.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2026 05:30 AM (pZ64F)

31 Recycling may always have been, but certainly is now a complete feel good scam. For which the country pays billions.

And with that good morning.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 26, 2026 05:33 AM (Rmwng)

32 I pay for trash service with my water bill. Household garbage is one day. Yard trash is another. All the yard trash gets chipped/shredded.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 05:34 AM (qFwJc)

33 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! It's Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 05:36 AM (wzUl9)

34 I saved aluminum cans for a decade. Took them to a place that would pay me. I recall getting something like $5.37 .

Not worth the effort.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 05:36 AM (qFwJc)

35 "Meanwhile we're still waiting for the M5 Ultra . . ."

After the way its predecessor behaved, I don't want to see an M5 "Ultra" anywhere near me!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

36 I used to take the thin plastic grocery bags back to the stores. Not anymore. Everything goes in the garbage. Life is simpler now.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 26, 2026 05:38 AM (qFwJc)

37 Psalm 5 Vs 11:

11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee 12; For thou, 0 Lord, wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him with a shield.

And a note in my Life Application Bible says:

How do we enter God's presence ? If we waited until we're sinless and perfect, we would never go in. God's faithful love opens the door for us. Without his mercy and kindness, we'd be unfit to approach him. Each day, ask God to fill you with joy inwardly and surround you with love outwardly ( 5:11-12. Then you will be able to approach him boldly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 05:38 AM (Yl2Ob)

38 I'm glad I got my MacBook when I did.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I feel the same way about the surface pro I picked up last christmas holidays. Currently , it sells for twice what I paid for mine.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2026 05:40 AM (ffi9I)

39 Out here, you can put lawn and brush trimmings in the cart or bag them. There's no limit on the number of lawn/leaf bags you can put out either. One fall, I had at least 20 bags filled after the leaves came off the oak trees.

I do miss the days when we could put them in barrels and burn them, though. On a cool, crisp fall day the smoke from the oak and pecan leaves and limbs was something to enjoy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 05:41 AM (3Ope8)

40 I've gotten almost enough sleep. One more workout slated for today, and then I can coast until Sunday.

Furry thugs? Off on their own concerns. Twice Stirling leaped over me without kicking me -- which woke me up anyway, of course.

Last night we watched the 1947 Gothic The Red House with Edward G. Robinson as a farmer with a secret that is quietly driving him mad. "A Gothic," you say? "What's a Gothic?" My answer, at least at this hour: "Like pr0n and many other things in life, you just know it when you see it."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

41 I hope you made enough for all of us.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)
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Sorry. This is an AOS I-More-Me event.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 26, 2026 05:48 AM (RkR9o)

42 "Gothic," says Wiki, "is characterised by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. . . . The atmosphere is typically claustrophobic, and common plot elements include vengeful persecution . . . and murder. . . . Other characteristics . . . can include unnatural echoes or silences, the discovery of obscured family ties . . . nocturnal landscapes, [and] remote locations. . . ."

That sounds a lot like The Red House.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

43 Museum in Paris opens gallery to artworks looted by Nazis in WWIi and still unclaimed
" Good News Network":

https://tinyurl.com/3eky7fn3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 05:51 AM (2sfNr)

44
Tomorrow I am attending the memorial service for my DIL's paternal grandfather. Mrs. KvC will remain here is Sussex, so I will be there on my own. The goings on for this event have taken my son and two gKids out of the Cub Pack fishing afternoon the next day, which saddens me because the gKids do enjoy catch and release fishing. Me, I gotta go, as I will be the Provider of the Bait.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 26, 2026 05:52 AM (s9VOe)

45 Last night Linda wanted to give little Dagny a treat to see if she liked it. So we locked Stirling up in a carrier to give her a chance; he'd have stolen the treat if he were free. Remarkably, he went right into his carrier, which he hadn't seen in a while, without any trouble.

Dagny didn't like the treat. We let him out, and darned if she didn't trot over and go into the carrier herself.

He gobbled the new treat, and Dagny got some of the crunchy ones she loves. Everybody was happy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

46 Looks like later today is gonna be a good time to go hit some golf balls and have a cheeseburger.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 05:54 AM (3Ope8)

47 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 26, 2026 05:52 AM (s9VOe)

I'm sorry that your son and the grandkids can't go. But it is an important job, to be provider of the bait for the others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 05:57 AM (Yl2Ob)

48 I'm back

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2026 05:57 AM (sgkY8)

49 My former employer had at least two of those blue recycling bins in our building. Part of my job was to ring up or post a message to the Facilities people to come get it when the bin was full.

They stopped worrying about it soon after the Sniffle Scare. There were two big bins in the foyer. I would put our paper trash in there, and it would get collected every now and then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

50 Looks like later today is gonna be a good time to go hit some golf balls and have a cheeseburger.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026

***
We don't do it often now -- a cup of plain coffee is over $3.00 -- but we'll visit a local coffee shop today. I'll fold mailing a bill and dropping some books at the library into the excursion.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

51 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: What, never? Well, hardly ever!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 26, 2026 06:06 AM (amcLV)

52
We are nearing the end of the Krebs' Mazda 3 having expired saga. We will donate it over to a veterans' charity on Tuesday and it will be towed away. Its demise came about because a front engine mount broke and said engine took a nosedive toward the radiator. I suspect that failure was a delayed outcome from a T-bone collision with another vehicle just over 39 months ago.

It was a painful end to the car for which a goodly number of its 169,000 miles and seventeen years had been spent in service of my scout troop. It was the "Wawa car", as I usually would stop at that convenience store on one leg or the other of our weekend camping trips over the course of my seven years as Scoutmaster (and during all the five years before I took on that responsibility).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 26, 2026 06:07 AM (s9VOe)

53 We don't do it often now -- a cup of plain coffee is over $3.00 -- but we'll visit a local coffee shop today.

There's a place here in Cowtown called the Paris Coffee Shop. Every once in a while, I'll meet a colleague for coffee and a slice of pecan pie.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2026 06:10 AM (3Ope8)

54 Up in the country, at the county, one could dump only wood at a specified place(free). But they had two chippers; fine and course. You could buy the chipped wood by the lb. I had a 600ft drive that cost about $10 to line every 3 years. It looked good too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 26, 2026 06:11 AM (WY+aP)

55
I'm sorry that your son and the grandkids can't go. But it is an important job, to be provider of the bait for the others.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thank you. I actually would go whether I served as Provider of the Bait or not, as I am the Pack's Cubmaster.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 26, 2026 06:12 AM (s9VOe)

56 I'm not very good at recycling, A lot of plastic goes in the regular trash. Metal and boxes are about all that is in the yellow bin we get. (you can get a tote) In Florida, Pinellas county they took away the bins for recycling. But they do have a great recycling for electronics, etc. They bring out a cart at their center and you just load it up and its gone.

Posted by: colin at June 26, 2026 06:12 AM (CiQE7)

57 King county garbage and recycling rules and require a PhD in garbology to figure out. Scrub that empty jar! Rinse your empty pop can! Unroll that paper towel trash to make sure theres no food particles clinging to it! Sheesh

Posted by: LASue at June 26, 2026 06:12 AM (lCppi)

58 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 06:15 AM (RIvkX)

59 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at June 26, 2026 06:17 AM (PzBTm)

60 I had a side business set up to recycle paper feed sacks. Tested the product, got great reviews.

The company that I had build the shredder could not keep it running so that ended that endeavor.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2026 06:22 AM (afJtY)

61 I'm up, I'm up. I have a mug of coffee (the most important thing in the world right now.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

62 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 26, 2026 06:12 AM (s9VOe)

Thanks for the important ways you serve the scouting community in that way. I remember you telling us of some of the interesting activities you had done in the past with them.

Our church patriarch who had no boys but wonderful daughters did scouting for years. He told me they referred
to him as Mr. ____ ( instead of by his first name) _ for decades afterwards, and when we had his memorial service some wonderful men travelled from states at quite a distance because they had so appreciated his leadership.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 06:25 AM (BdRar)

63 We have to put out "recycling" or face a fine.

Organized gangs come down my street the night before the city does pickup and steals all the refundable glass and cans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2026 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

64
Good morning, Hordians. Still waiting on the lawn to dry out. Might try to mow some of the wet areas with the push mower to expose them more to the sun and wind. Maybe on Monday I can take a pass with the riding mower and get it at least shortened.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2026 06:25 AM (O0L8i)

65 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

It's ok . We 're not reporting you for lateness. We're not the school bus dispatcher 😉 How did your last day go?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2026 06:27 AM (BdRar)

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