Daily Tech News 17 May 2026

• If you're looking for an inexpensive CPU to soothe the bite of memory and storage prices, should you choose AMD's 7600X3D, or Intel's new 250K? (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Both have six full-speed cores and the AMD chip has an extra 64MB of cache, making it 10% faster for games.
  
  However, the Intel chip is 28% faster for single-threaded productivity tasks, which don't often take great advantage of the larger cache.
  
  And for multi-threaded tasks the Intel chip is 114% faster.
  
  On the fourth hand, AMD's socket AM5 platform currently supports Zen 4 and 5, and will see Zen 6 and probably Zen 7 in the future, so you have a plenty of upgrade options if you start with the 7600X3D. Intel's Socket 1851 ends with the 250K and 270K, there's a new socket and chipset out later this year.

• Asus is jumping into the memory market - assembling modules, not manufacturing chips - but don't expect any relief from high prices. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  $880 for a 48GB kit is no bargain.
  
  
  
• 2K Games is killing its racing game Lego 2K Drive. (WCCFTech)
  
  It will disappear from online stores (like Steam) on the 19th and the multiplayer servers will shut down at the end of May next year.
  
  I already have it (though I have never played it) because it was in a Humble Choice monthly package. Which is where I get most my games these days.
  
  
  
• Europe is spending billions of dollars to build its own clouds to escape pernicious American ideals like personal responsibility and civil liberties. They forgot just one thing. (The Register)
  
  Well, a lot of things, but as the article points out, Europe doesn't make its own CPUs.
  
  
  
• Zerostack is an AI coding agent written in Rust. (Crates)
  
  All the hard stuff is running in remote datacenters anyway, but that doesn't mean the easy part should be pure slop with vulnerabilities oozing from every pore looking at you OpenClaw.
  
  Or even Claude Code, which is no paragon of efficiency or of safety.
  
  Zerostack uses 12MB of RAM. Not gigabytes, megabytes.

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