Daily Tech News 23 June 2026

• Valve's Steam machine is here, starting at $499 $599 $699 $1049. (Notebook Check)
  
  Or almost almost here. You can enter a lottery right now, which will offer winners the chance to buy the Cube from June 29. Delivery will take place sometime after that.
  
  
  
• You can get more powerful PCs for similar amounts of money. (Notebook Check)
  
  But the Cube is compact and almost silent.
  
  
  
• And overall, it doesn't suck. (Notebook Check)
  
  Valve got steamrolled by the DRAM Apocalypse just like the rest of us, but it does deliver what they promised. Mostly. 4k was always a stretch.

• Lenovo's Legion Tab Gen 5 is here - and you can actually buy one. (Notebook Check)
  
  It launched in China a little while ago, but is now available internationally. MSRP is a hefty $850 but it's discounted to a still pretty hefty $650 for now.
  
  Also, the older Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 is now on clearance, discounted as much as 50%.
  
  At that price it is - adjusted for inflation - actually cheaper than the iconic 2013 Nexus 7, while offering a higher resolution screen, larger battery, six times the memory, eight times the storage, ten times the CPU performance, and literally a hundred times the graphics performance. To be fair, the Nexus 7 was kind of bad at 3d gaming.
  
  No wireless charging, but it has dual USB-C ports rather than one failure-prone micro-USB socket.
  
  
  
• Fuck you Microsoft GameInput.
  
  But at least I know that it wasn't a hardware problem.
  
  
  
• Canada is planning a nuclear renaissance with ten new reactors to be built by 2040 at a cost of $100 billion. (CBC)
  
  They achieved this using one simple trick: They targeted an operational date of 2010 on a budget of $5 billion.
  
  
  
• DDR3 and DDR2 are the next victims of the Apocalypse. (The Register)
  
  I have 96GB of DDR3. Much less DDR2 - maybe 32GB across four old systems.
  
  
  
• The AI world is getting loopy. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Do tell.
  
  (Reads article.)
  
  No. Don't tell.
  
  
  
• Anthropic says Claude may want to see your license, registration, and insurance. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not just no, but fuck no.

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