Daily Tech News 3 June 2026

• Windows has a fever and the only cure is more Linux. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Seriously, though. Microsoft is planning to fix problems with Windows by embedding more Linux into its operating system.
  
  It seems there might be an easier way to achieve that.
  
  
  
• Also, Microsoft, fire your designers. (Notebook Check)
  
  Now.
  
  All of them.

• Laptops based on Nvidia's new RTX Spark N1X CPU will start at $2900. (WCCFTech)
  
  And go up from there.
  
  Models using the low-end N1 CPU will start at $1800.
  
  Do not send to ask for whom the bell tolls, Nvidia.
  
  
  
• Intel says that "something has to give" with memory prices. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And that they're not planning to stop production of older CPUs that use DDR4 memory, not while there's still demand.
  
  
  
• AMD meanwhile had to re-engineer its DDR4-friendly 5800X3D to bring it back into production. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  TSMC has changed its die-stacking technology (the X3D part in the name) so they couldn't simply restart production of the chip with the same process as before. The CPU chiplet remains the same, but it needs to be packaged differently.
  
  
  
• Phison showed off a PCIe 6.0 SSD controller that supports transfer rates of 28GB per second and 6.8 million IOPS. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  While drawing just 7W of power. Which would be a lot for a consumer model, but no more than early PCIe 5.0 controller chips.
  
  
  
• A perfect companion for your new 5800X3D, Nividia's RTX 3060 is back as well.> (WCCFTech)
  
  Only in China so far. Priced at $325.
  
  
  
• The European Parliament has ditched Google Search for French competitor Qwant. (Politico)
  
  I'm usually more than ready to dump on European idiocy, but Google makes it easier every day to break up with them, even for those of us who are not European idiots.

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