Daily News Stuff 7 May 2026

• New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma came from the company's AI division, leading to unease among gamers. She just cancelled Copilot on Xbox and mobile. (The Verge)
  
  The only way to win is not to play, but you can minimise your losses by taking them out behind the barn and shooting them.
  
  
  
• Apple has dragged Apple Intelligence behind the barn as well. (The Verge)
  
  It will settle a class action lawsuit for $250 million. Yes, with an M, which is very small potatoes compared to pushing ahead with AI development.

• Speaking of which, SpaceX plans to spend up to $55 billion initially and $119 billion over time to build its new chip fab in Texas. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Elon, build a memory factory alongside the logic fab and the world will beat a path to your door.
  
  
  
• And on the Apple end of the scale, companies including Palantir have invested a total of $200 million to build datacenters in the ocean. (Ars Technica)
  
  This solves the cooling problem but rather opens up the shark problem.
  
  
  
• The first draft of the spec for PCIe 8.0 has been announced, with ratification expected in 2028. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A single lane of PCIe 8.0 is twice as fast as a full x16 slot of PCIe 3.0, and it should be backwards compatible.
  
  PCIe 6.0 support is very limited even in the enterprise space, so we'll be waiting a while for 8.0 to land on our desktops.
  
  
  
• If you want a Mac Studio you'll be waiting six weeks to forever depending on the configuration. (Toms' Hardware)
  
  The 256GB and 128GB models have followed the largest 512GB model into the overpriced dustbin of history - remember, we're talking RAM sizes here, not storage - and even the basic 64GB model will take six weeks to deliver.
  
  
  

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