Daily Tech News 25 June 2026

• Walmart has signed a deal to buy 176 megawatts of nuclear power for 15 years. (MSN)
  
  Enough, says the article, to power 150,000 homes, assuming those homes have gas heating and no gaming PCs.
  
  
  
• The Trump administration has announced $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new nuclear reactors. (AP News)
  
  Coming soon to a Walmart near you. Well, soon is about ten years from now. Soonish.

• Grand Theft Auto VI will come in an empty box and cost $80. (The Verge)
  
  They promised a physical edition. Technically they didn't promise to put anything in it.
  
  
  
• Disney Wanted to buy Twitter and the James Bond franchise and to merge with Apple. (The Verge)
  
  None of this came to pass, and considering the train wrecks they made of everything they did acquire during Bob Iger's tenure, we can be glad of that.
  
  
  
• Slate Auto's new electric truck is here, starting at $24,950. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Any colour so long as it's gray.
  
  
  
• Robot from the future Mike Pall is working on LuaJIT 3.0. (GitHub)
  
  LuaJIT is a compiled version of the Lua programming language, that is tiny, bug-free, and impossibly fast. That's why its creator got termed "a robot from the future".
  
  
  
• Microsoft's Majorana is poop, says a quantum computing researcher. (The Register)
  
  Microsoft recently announced Majorana 2, a major breakthrough in quantum computing. A new paper in Nature says not so fast, and maybe not at all.
  
  
  
• The memory crunch is paying off for this US company. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Spoiler: It's Micron, the only major US player in the memory space. I was hoping for some story about a plucky startup recycling e-waste into working components or, well, literally anything else. I am disappoint.
  
  
  
• My new tablet arrived. They said it would, but deliveries to country towns in Australia can often take years. It has 12GB of RAM.
  
  
  
• Apple was infamous for years for slapping a 1000% markup on memory in their phones and computers. Now the memory companies are doing exactly the same thing to Apple. (WCCFTech)
  
  If Apple wants to keep its old margins you could end up paying $200 per GB.
  
  
  
• The RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is a new small Android tablet. (Notebook Check)
  
  I'm a big fan of small Android tablets, but I just got one today - on top of the one I already have, and the other one I have that sucks so I never use it - so I don't need to care for five years of so.

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