Daily Tech News 18 July 2027

• AMD's latest Threadripper Pro 9000 WX series arrives July 23, starting at $1649 for 16 cores - actually a little cheaper than the previous generation - and going all the way up to $11,699 for 96 cores which is not cheap at all. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  There's no 12 core model in this generation, which might explain the price cut on the 16 core model.
  
  Also launching on the 23rd is the Radeon Pro 9700, a version of the 9070XT video card with 32GB of RAM instead of 16GB. That will only be available in prebuilt systems initially, with retail units available sometime in the Q3. Which is... Now.

• OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent can take over an entire computer and run tasks for you. (The Verge)
  
  Where you can conveniently switch it off, unplug it from the rest of the world, and smash it with a hammer.
  
  
  
• The US House has passed new regulations on so-called "stablecoins", crypto assets that are meant to be, well, stable coins, but sometimes aren't. (CNBC)
  
  TerraUSD and Luna suffered a $60 billion collapse three years ago and caused $300 billion in losses elsewhere because they were basically fictional. (Forbes)
  
  So new regulations are theoretically a good thing. The problem I have personally with this bill is it has widespread bipartisan support, passing 308-122.
  
  Also passing the House was the Anti-CBDC Act, which forbids the Federal Reserve from creating its own digital currency.
  
  That passed with only one Republican dissenting, and every single Democrat voting against it.
  
  
  
• Dictionary.com deleted your words. (Ars Technica)
  
  The histrionics over losing your wordlists are utterly cringeworthy, but as a lesson that you should never trust anything online to still be there tomorrow it is quite valuable.
  
  This site excepted, of course.

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