Tech News Roundup — June 24, 2026 (PM)

Amazon’s Prime Day 2026 is the gravitational centre of today’s Tech feed — seven outlets are running deal roundups across Switch 2 accessories, Windows laptops, gaming controllers, robot vacuums and Dyson gear. Underneath the deal churn, the day also delivered GTA VI’s long-awaited price tag, Slate Auto’s $24,950 EV pickup reveal, Microsoft’s Windows 11 26H2 confirmation, a Linux 7.2 feature dump led by post-quantum IMA signatures, and the Pplware coverage of the U.S. “Golden Dome” missile shield’s first live test.

Prime Day 2026 — Deals Roundups

Seven outlets turned the dial to deal-aggregation mode for Prime Day day two. The Verge and Windows Central are leading the pack, covering Switch 2 accessories (which are particularly worth grabbing — the Switch 2 itself is set to jump $50 to $499.99 on September 1st), Dyson PencilWash at its lowest-ever price, Razer gaming controllers and chairs, all three Seagate Xbox Expansion Cards, the best Microsoft Flight Simulator flight sticks, and anti-Prime Day Windows laptop deals from Dell with 32GB RAM under $1,000.

Pplware joins the roundup with Prime Day power banks, rounding out the consumer-deal coverage with Portuguese-market picks.

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Gaming

• GTA VI finally gets a price tag. Rockstar priced Grand Theft Auto VI at $79.99 for the standard edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition, with preorders opening midnight local time across PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Both digital and physical editions are available — though Rockstar confirmed even the physical copies ship as a download code inside the box. Physical copies begin shipping November 12th. [The Verge]

• Star Fox is the Switch 2’s most impressive visual showcase yet. Where Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza and Pokopia emphasised scale and open worlds, the Switch 2 remake of the N64 original leans the other way — a tightly choreographed on-rails shooter with spectacular set-pieces that has let the design team squeeze the hardware in unexpected ways. [The Verge]

• Ten indie games from Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Games Showcase worth wishlisting. Windows Central rounds up the indie highlights from this year’s showcase orbit, beyond the AAA noise around State of Decay 3, Fable and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Windows Central

Microsoft / Windows

• Microsoft confirms Windows 11 version 26H2 is coming soon — and reveals some devices won’t be eligible. The next annual feature update sticks to the same H2 cadence as 24H2 and 25H2, but is built on the same 2024 platform release as its predecessors, meaning the feature delta over 25H2 will be modest. Microsoft flagged that not all current devices will qualify for the upgrade. Windows Central

• Windows 11 just got a major upgrade to PC recovery, and it finally protects your personal files. This week Microsoft rolled out point-in-time restore to general Windows 11 users (Enterprise, Pro, and Home), automatically creating restore points that can revert a broken PC in minutes rather than hours. The headline change is personal file protection during the recovery rollback — a longstanding pain point. Windows Central

Hardware

• The Slate Auto pickup truck starts at $24,950. Slate Auto’s American-made electric pickup hits the price point the company originally promised, landing it as both the cheapest pickup truck and the cheapest EV on sale today — well under the average new-vehicle price. The bet is that simplicity and price matter more than feature density. The Verge drove the truck; the verdict is there’s more to it than EV minimalism. [The Verge]

• The Seiren V3 Pro proves Razer can build a true studio-grade mic. Razer’s new flagship streaming microphone pairs a 30 mm dynamic capsule, USB-C and XLR outputs, and tactile hardware controls with deep Synapse software and Chroma RGB flair. Windows Central’s review cuts through the marketing and treats it as Razer’s most mature peripheral to date. Windows Central

Google / Smart Home

• The Google Home Speaker sounds good and looks great — but it’s finicky. The new speaker aced the wake-word test across two days of testing — even at 100% volume, the three microphones reliably ducked audio and listened every time. The catch is everything else: setup quirks and finicky behaviour around the smart-home features that the speaker is meant to anchor. [The Verge]

Linux & Open Source

• Linux 7.2 ready with IMA and EVM post-quantum ML-DSA signature support. The integrity subsystem changes merged last week for the 7.2 kernel land post-quantum ML-DSA signature support inside IMA and EVM — the first post-quantum cryptographic path for the kernel’s integrity-measurement architecture. Phoronix

• Linux 7.2 protects against crafted perf data going rogue. A second 7.2 integrity hardening patch closes a path where malformed perf event data could trip up the kernel’s analysis subsystem. Phoronix

• One line of x86 GCC tuning nets +12% benchmark win for modern Intel/AMD CPUs. A single line of code change to GCC’s generic x86 tuning path delivered double-digit performance gains across modern Intel and AMD silicon — a rare case of a one-character compiler fix translating into measurable workload speedups. Phoronix

• QSOE v0.1 released as a QNX-inspired RISC-V OS. QSOE 0.1 debuts as a dual-kernel, QNX-inspired open-source operating system targeting RISC-V — the first notable RISC-V RTOS-class project to openly cite QNX’s microkernel heritage as its architectural north star. Phoronix

Security / Defence

• Golden Dome: first live test of Trump’s antimissile shield was a “total success”. The U.S. antimissile system championed by Donald Trump passed its first real-world test without failures, according to U.S. officials — a milestone for the program and a data point on whether the layered interceptor architecture works as advertised. Pplware

Business

• Bob Iger’s Disney wanted Apple, Twitter, and 007. In an exit interview with the Financial Times, the outgoing Disney CEO confirmed several major M&A approaches that didn’t materialise — including walking away from buying Twitter, being rebuffed by Apple, and losing out on the James Bond franchise — alongside the successful 21st Century Fox acquisition that defined his tenure. [The Verge]

Roundup compiled from the TTRSS Tech feed. 23 fresh articles from 4 sources (The Verge, Windows Central, Phoronix, Pplware) summarised across 15 clusters; ~17 older items skipped (tracker) or already covered.