Saturday, July 04
Daily News Stuff 4 July 2026
Birthday Edition
Birthday Edition
Top Story
- Happy birthday, America! You don't look a day over 240!
(Actually you look a lot better than you did at 240, but we won't go into that.)
- US life expectancy is expected to hit a record high as drug overdoses decrease. (CNN)
Unexpectedly. Turns out you can just do things.
- Sitting - or lying down - for more than 30 minutes at a time has been linked to an increased risk of dying of cancer. (The Guardian)
So has drinking water and breathing air.
Tech News
- Looks like I need to buy another PC case. (Hyte)
(Checks price.)
(Checks shipping rates.)
Uh. Yeah, at close to $1200 I'll wait and see if this shows up at local retailers.
- GitHub has announced plans to distribute physical media of popular repositories. (Tom's Hardware)
This is Microsoft poking fun at Sony.
- Intel has added a 65W 22 core Nova Lake part with BLERK to its upcoming lineup. (Tom's Hardware)
Allegedly. BLERK stands for "Big Last-Level Cache" and is Intel's answer to AMD's X3D parts. 65W stands for, probably, about 150W. (AMD's 65W parts use 89W peak, for comparison.)
We'll see.
- Intel just increased the price on a broad range of its CPUs. (Tom's Hardware)
Mostly its server chips - which have increased by closed to 30% in some cases - but also its desktop parts.
- Bloober Team Ditches Cronos Survival Dread for Aggressive Combat as Lazarus Lands on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2. (WCCFTech)
I recognised at least one of those words.
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AOOOSTAR has launched its own competitor to Valve's Steam Machine, priced at $849. (Liliputing)
It's a compact system measuring 8"x8"x3", and features Radeon 7600 XT graphics (a little faster than the Steam Machine's 7600M), and a Ryzen 7940HX CPU, which is dramatically faster than the semi-custom processor in the Steam Machine.
What it doesn't have is any memory (apart from the 8GB on the graphics card) or storage. Well, I assume it's 8GB; I doubt they've included a 16GB card.
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