Daily Tech News 3 July 2025

• At release, Nvidia's 5070 Ti was a little faster than AMD's competing 9070 XT but at a significantly higher cost. In the months since, things have changed. (WCCFTech)
  
  Now with a few months of driver updates behind it, the 9070 XT is faster overall - and the 5070 Ti is more expensive than ever.
  
  It's not a huge win for AMD, but given that their card is also 20% cheaper, there's not much reason to go with Nvidia in any but the highest price brackets which are completely unaffordable anyway.

• Microsoft's Copilot has joined ChatGPT in being humiliated in chess by the Atari 2600, which dates from the Cenozoic Era. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Copilot boasted of its skill at chess, but couldn't even keep track of the board, despite being explicitly fed that data.
  
  
  
• Microsoft is laying off 9000 employees, with the Xbox division being hit particularly hard. (The Verge)
  
  That ranges from 10% of the people working on Candy Crush being laid off to the entire studio behind the game Perfect Dark being closed down.
  
  
  
• Interstellar apples are visiting the Solar System. (LiveScience)

  A11pl3Z is most likely a large asteroid, or maybe a comet, potentially spanning up to 12 miles (20 kilometers). It is traveling toward the inner solar system at around 152,000 mph (245,000 km/h) and is approaching us from the part of the night sky where the bar of the Milky Way is located.

  If it hits something at that speed there's going to be juice everywhere.
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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