Daily Tech News 4 May 2025

• All the major browsers are set to lose their funding. (Dan Fabulich)
  
  Google pays 80% of the budget for Safari and Mozilla, Edge is just Chrome, and Chrome actually is Chrome. So with Google's illegal practices on multiple fronts coming to a head with the company losing two antitrust cases, the whole metastatic structure is set to implode.
  
  More than that, Google's payments to Apple, which are likely to end abruptly, cover 60% of the latter company's total R&D budget.
  
  
  
• Waah says Mozilla. (The Verge)
  
  And nothing of value was lost. Mozilla killed itself off as a realistic option years ago.
  
  
  

• Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti 8GB model loses up to 10 percent of performance when running with PCIe 4.0. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's accurate in itself, but the main story is don't even think about buying the 8GB model.
  
  For example, playing Dragon Age Veilguard - which nobody does; the game flopped hard - the 16GB card achieves a reasonable 57 fps at 1440p, dropping very slightly to 56.9 fps when using a PCIe 4.0 slot. Fair enough and in line with other tests. Even the 5090 only loses a couple of percentage points in performance with a PCIe 4.0 slot.
  
  With the 8GB model, performance drops to just 34 fps. And with the 8GB model in a PCIe 4.0 slot, it can't even manage 5 fps.
  
  Most games cope better than that, but some games were even worse. The new Indiana Jones game would not run at all on the 8GB version with the same settings used on the 16GB card, and Spider-Man 2 ran but crashed often enough on the 8GB card to make it a truly miserable experience.
  
  The two 5060 Ti models share a name, but the 16GB model is adequate, while the 8GB model is simply inadequate.
  
  
  
• How to use RegEdit to totally brick Windows instead of clicking a button when it's slow to reboot. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Do not do this.
  
  
  

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