Daily Tech News 7 July 2026

• Beelink has launched its EQi Wildcat Lake mini-PC build around Intel's new low-end Core 3 304 CPU. (Liliputing)
  
  Starting at $509 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD, and limited to just one performance core (and four efficiency cores) it's not going to set the world on fire.
  
  Just give you hearburn.
  
  
  
• Minisforum meanwhile has announced its NAB9S mini PC starting at just $399. (WCCFTech)
  
  True, that includes neither memory nor storage, but what it does include is a 24-core Intel 13900HX laptop processor, which is close to four times as fast in multi-threaded tasks as the Core 3 304.
  
  If you already have a bunch of DDR4 SODIMMs and are worried about the hardware around them aging out, this looks like a pretty good solution. Would handily beat my 5560U mini PC or my 11800H laptop.

• SpaceX is just letting satellites burn up in the atmosphere! (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The comments point out that 50 tons of meteoroids enter the atmosphere every day, a far greater burn rate than SpaceX.
  
  
  
• AMD is matching Nvidia by offering its own wildly overpriced non-upgradable AI workstation. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Systems based on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB appeared last year priced around $2000. By cutting out the middle man AMD had managed to reduce the price to $4000.
  
  
  
• Speaking of AI workstations, the price per million tokens quoted by different AI services is meaningless. (Jan Ilowski)
  
  Because nobody can agree on what a token is.
  
  It's like buying fruit by the foot when a foot is defined as "a measure of distance usually between and inch and a yard".
  
  
  
• Microsoft has laid off nearly 5000 people, including 1600 from its Xbox division. (Tech Crunch)
  
  On the other hand, that's only 2.1% of the company's staff.
  
  Also given how dire the Xbox situation is, even if they don't all deserve this they had to have known it was coming.

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