Daily Tech News 9 July 2026

• John Deere tractor owners and third party repair centers have been granted the same ability to repair the devices as the company's own service technicians under a 10 year agreement with the FTC. (AP News)
  
  Doesn't mean they're repairable, just means the company can't forbid you to try.
  
  
  
• Speaking of settling Elon Musk has done so with the SEC over his purchase of Twitter back in the late Bronze Age. (Tech Crunch)
  
  He was fined $1.5 million, which represents approximately thruppence in comparison to my own bank account.

• Microsoft's share of the global desktop operating system market has fallen to just 56.5%. (Linuxiac)
  
  Coming in second at around 20% is... Apparently something called "This survey is garbage".
  
  
  
• Grok 4.5 is here. (x.ai)
  
  I noticed Grok having a stroke recently; no data lost but it had to reload all my documents and restart the conversation. That may have been the model switch.
  
  Anyway, Grok is now smarter than Claude Opus but still not quite as smart as Claude Fable.
  
  
  
• AMD's upcoming Zen 6 10-core CPU squishes existing 10-core laptop models like the Ryzen 365. (WCCFTech)
  
  But there's something a little odd here. The results show two core clusters, with four cores in the main cluster and six in the second cluster.
  
  That would still be a laptop chip, because the 10-core desktop chips we're expecting will have a single core cluster. Given that, the performance increase of 29% single-threaded and 22% multi-threaded is more than respectable.
  
  
  
• Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting a star about 25 light years away. (Notebook Check)
  
  Bit of a commute but it's in a good neighbourhood.

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