Daily Tech News 13 March 2026

• Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was fucking stupid, says... Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. (Reuters)
  
  Yeah, Ursula.
  
  We know.
  
  Everybody knows.
  
  Everybody knew the entire time.
  
  They only people pushing this idiocy were Europe's enemies, like the environmentalist lobby.

• Why cats always land on their feet. (New York Times)
  
  Because landing on someone else's feet would be gauche.
  
  
  
• Perplexity AI has announced Perplexity Computer, a service where you pay $200 per month to run AI tasks on your own hardware. (Perplexity)
  
  It's not a bubble.
  
  It's worse.
  
  
  
• Crimson Desert is a new single-player computer game that... Might not suck? (WCCFTech)
  
  People who were in on the early tests are raving about it, and the recommended specs are a welcome return to normalcy. You do need 150GB of storage - SSD mandatory - but apart from that a five year old Ryzen 5 5600, 16GB of RAM, and a mid-range Radeon 6700 XT should be fine. And that's the recommended hardware; the minimum spec lists a Ryzen 2600X processor from 2018, and a Radeon 5500 XT, a low-end graphics card from 2019.
  
  Nice change from games like Borderlands 4 which perform poorly even with a 9800 X3D and an RTX 5090.
  
  It's also coming to the PlayStation 5 but there's a small problem there: It's a 150GB game and the maximum capacity of the BDXL disks the PlayStation uses is 100GB. There's a 48GB day-one download you need to install before it will run.

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