• AMD has officially announced the eagerly-awaited 9060 XT graphics card, arriving June 5 and starting at $299.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though that's for the 8GB model which you don't want to buy.  The 16GB model costs $349, which is well worth it given that it's reportedly faster than the competing 5060 Ti from Nvidia and the 16GB model of that card costs $429.
  
  And it also leaves the newly announced 5060 (non-Ti) dead in the water.  It also costs $299 for 8GB of RAM, but it's slower than the 5060 Ti.
  
  One shortcoming is that the 9060 XT only offers three display outputs.  That's a bit odd because almost everything offers four outputs, and professional cards can offer six.
  
  
  
• AMD also announced the Radeon AI Pro R9700, which is the Radeon 9070 XT with double the RAM.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And probably more than double the price.

• AMD also also announced the Ryzen 9000 Threadripper and Threadripper Pro workstation CPUs, which are slightly faster than the Ryzen 7000 Threadripper and Threadripper Pro workstation CPUs.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And twice as fast as anything from Intel right now.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's RTX 5060 is also here.  Please don't look at it.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Nividia did everything possible to prevent anyone properly reviewing this card.  And it's not actually that bad, except for the fact that with only 8GB of RAM it can fail to run more demanding games at all.
  
  
  
• Google announced a whole slew of updates at its IO conference.  (The Verge)
  
  If you guessed that they were all AI slop, you win a prize.
  
  Not a real prize.  A fake prize.  More AI slop, actually.  Congratulations.
  
  
  
• Google is rolling out AI mode to everyone in the US.  Whether you like it or not.  (Engadget)
  
  Told you.
  
  
  
• If you are on the Adobe All Apps subscription plan in North America, from next month you will automatically be upgraded to the All Apps Plus AI Slop plan.  At a higher price.  (The Verge)
  
  What are you going to do, use Affinity?
  
  Oh god, don't switch to Affinity.  We'll give you a 70% discount!
  
  
  
• Microsoft is adding AI actions to Windows 11.  (The Verge)
  
  What are you going to do, stick with Windows 10?
  
  Oh.  Um.
  
  
  
• The Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer reading list.  Only problem is that two thirds of the books listed aren't real.  (Ars Technica)

  The creator of the list, Marco Buscaglia, confirmed to 404 Media that he used AI to generate the content.  "I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first.  This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious.  No excuses," Buscaglia said.  "On me 100 percent and I'm completely embarrassed."

  No worries, Marco.  Your termination notice was also AI-generated.
  
  
  
• Asus announced a 3000W power supply for computers because why not.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You'll need a 15A 240V socket at a minimum for this beast.
  
  
  

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