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<h2>Top Story</h2>
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<li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/ar-AA26n1U3]Walmart has signed a deal to buy 176 megawatts of nuclear power for 15 years.[/url] (MSN)<br />
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Enough, says the article, to power 150,000 homes, assuming those homes have gas heating and no gaming PCs.<br />
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<li>[url=https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-reactors-energy-trump-wright-57841139aca7d2780a12256692b96fc5]The Trump administration has announced $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new nuclear reactors.[/url] (AP News)<br />
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Coming soon to a Walmart near you. Well, soon is about ten years from now. Soonish.</li>
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<h2>Tech News</h2>
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<li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/games/956389/grand-theft-auto-6-gta-digital-code-in-box-physical-games]Grand Theft Auto VI will come in an empty box and cost $80.[/url] (The Verge)<br />
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They promised a physical edition. Technically they didn't promise to put anything in it.<br />
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<li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/streaming/955646/disney-bob-iger-twitter-james-bond-apple-merger]Disney Wanted to buy Twitter and the James Bond franchise and to merge with Apple.[/url] (The Verge)<br />
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None of this came to pass, and considering the train wrecks they made of everything they did acquire during Bob Iger's tenure, we can be glad of that.<br />
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<li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/slate-autos-radically-simple-electric-truck-starts-at-24950/]Slate Auto's new electric truck is here, starting at $24,950.[/url] (Tech Crunch)<br />
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Any colour so long as it's gray.<br />
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<li>[url=https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1475]Robot from the future Mike Pall is working on LuaJIT 3.0.[/url] (GitHub)<br />
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LuaJIT is a compiled version of the Lua programming language, that is tiny, bug-free, and impossibly fast. That's why its creator got termed "a robot from the future".<br />
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<li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/5260489]Microsoft's Majorana is poop, says a quantum computing researcher.[/url] (The Register)<br />
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Microsoft recently announced Majorana 2, a major breakthrough in quantum computing. A new paper in Nature says not so fast, and maybe not at all.<br />
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<li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/the-memory-chip-crunch-is-paying-off-for-this-u-s-company/]The memory crunch is paying off for this US company.[/url] (Tech Crunch)<br />
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Spoiler: It's Micron, the only major US player in the memory space. I was hoping for some story about a plucky startup recycling e-waste into working components or, well, literally anything else. I am disappoint.<br />
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<li>My new tablet arrived. They said it would, but deliveries to country towns in Australia can often take years. It has 12GB of RAM.<br />
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<li>Apple was infamous for years for slapping a 1000% markup on memory in their phones and computers. [url=https://wccftech.com/apple-is-in-for-a-sticker-shock-in-q3-with-lpddr5x-dram-costs-surging-by-68-8-in-a-single-quarter-as-operating-profit-margin-for-general-purpose-dram-to-hit-90-within-the-year/]Now the memory companies are doing exactly the same thing to Apple.[/url] (WCCFTech)<br />
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If Apple wants to keep its old margins you could end up paying $200 per GB.<br />
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<li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/RedMagic-shares-gaming-performance-figures-for-its-new-OLED-tablet.1328474.0.html]The RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is a new small Android tablet.[/url] (Notebook Check)<br />
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I'm a big fan of small Android tablets, but I just got one today - on top of the one I already have, and the other one I have that sucks so I never use it - so I don't need to care for five years of so.</li>
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<h2>Musical Interlude</h2>
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<div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Stare at a wall.</span></div>