Daily Tech News 26 June 2022

• Say, whatever happened to that fancy Asus "Space Edition" laptop? Did it ever make it to market?
  
  Yep. (Amazon)
  
  On the one hand, kind of expensive.
  
  On the other hand, with an i9-12900H it's nearly three times as fast as the laptop I'm using right now.
  
  On the third hand, Amazon's spec sheets are maintained by idiots. This one states the laptop weighs 9.9lbs.
  
  
  

• If leaked specs of next-generation video cards are correct, your next PC might need a 1000W power supply so here's one from Gigabyte. (AnandTech)
  
  Temperatures have been below freezing here in New House City the last four nights so this currently doesn't seem like such an extravagance. Play Minecraft on an i9-13900K / RTX 4080 system and keep the house warm at the same time.
  
  
  
• Italy has banned Google Analytics, declaring it illegal under the GDPR. (Simple Analytics)
  
  This is terrible. I'm out of popcorn.
  
  
  
• Shocking everyone, a report finds that Robinhood lied throughout the Gamestop debacle last year. (Yahoo Finance)
  
  And in fact was only kept alive by an unexplained liquidity waiver.
  
  
  
• The SEC has proposed new regulations to deal with "meme stock" situations like this. (Yahoo Finance)
  
  As described, they do not look terrible. Let's wait for the other shoes to drop though.
  
  
  
• Is this ridiculous overpriced digital water bottle with its accompanying iPhone app worth it? No. (9to5Mac)
  
  The promised "deep dive" is garbage and doesn't evaluate much of anything, but such is the tame Apple press.

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