Daily Tech News 2 June 2025

• There's a new fastest gaming graphics card on the market: The Nvidia RTX Pro 6000, priced at around $10,000. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For five times the MSRP of the previous leader, the RTX 5090, it's all of 14% faster.
  
  And it draws 596W of power under load, compared to the rated maximum of its 12VHPWR connector of 600W. So if anything goes wrong, that could be $10,000 up in smoke.
  
  I think I'm good with my 7800 XT for now.

• Microsoft's new hardware certification standards mean fewer USB-C ports. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, the idea is that all USB-C ports should be able to deliver data, display, and power. But not all USB-C ports can deliver data, display, and power, so the cheap, simple, and bloody obvious solution is to drop any USB-C ports that don't comply with the new rules.
  
  
  
• The IRS just open-sourced its file-transfer software. (Reddit)
  
  And it's actually good?
  
  
  
• Microsoft Edge Game Assist is here. (Hot Hardware)
  
  It tells you how to play your games, something that everybody loves.
  
  Fortunately it's easily avoided by not using Microsoft Edge.
  
  
  
• Why do lawyers keeping using ChatGPT? (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Because they're stupid and lazy.
  
  Just like journalists, but they face real penalties for their stupidity and laziness.

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