by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#797WF)
One of the GPUs from a stolen shipment of RTX 5090 graphics cards has appeared for sale online. Police have identified three employees at an airport who stole the goods.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#797Q6)
Sony is following the footsteps of LG in ending Blu-ray player production.
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by Etiido Uko on (#797Q7)
TSMC is reportedly asking equipment suppliers for factory machinery that doesn't use rare-earth components, as the chipmaker seeks to reduce exposure to China's dominance of critical minerals and permanent magnets.
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by Jeffrey Kampman on (#797Q8)
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark might not be a gaming laptop first and foremost, but it certainly wants to game. We found that creating a custom 1920x1080-equivalent resolution for its 3:2 screen, missing from its out-of-the-box config, makes for a better experience.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#797Q9)
Leaked private keys for eight CA certificates let any attacker impersonate any domain - billions of older devices and software installations may be vulnerable after round of fixes, patch yours immediately
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#797JB)
Despite all odds, the AI boom is increasing relevance of tape storage as technology enables cheap storage with zero power consumption in idle and ultimate security with air gap.
by Stewart Bendle on (#797JC)
Save 33% on a new Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop at Best Buy. RTX 5070 graphics and a sharp OLED panel are highlights of this laptop build.
by Ben Stockton on (#797JD)
This Newegg combo deal combines the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a Gigabyte AM5 X870E motherboard for $1,029.99, saving you over $238 in total.
by Etiido Uko on (#797JE)
OpenAI says researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol uncovered two critical PHP vulnerabilities with severity scores of 9.2 and demonstrated working exploits, after which the company coordinated fixes.
by Shane Downing on (#797JF)
Google's TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.
by Oliver Haslam on (#797JG)
Almost 500,000 phishing emails were sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Kobe, Japan, hotel room.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7974F)
Intel makes progress on its manufacturing expansion in Arizona and Ohio as it continues to expand advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S.
by Stewart Bendle on (#796Y3)
The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro has its astronomical AI-driven high price slashed by 27%.
by Etiido Uko on (#796Y4)
Elon Musk says ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are expediting deliveries for Terafab, as Tesla and SpaceX target volume chip production in Texas by late 2028 alongside a massive expansion in AI compute capacity.
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by Zak Killian on (#796Y5)
New driver enablement work from AMD brings full platform-level tuning control to Ryzen systems running Linux, finally.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) on (#796V6)
Trump's latest post on Truth Social announces his plans to make data centers more popular among local communities.
by Etiido Uko on (#796V7)
Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.
by Shane Downing on (#796RV)
FADU's FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.
by Jake Roach on (#796RW)
AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.
by Ben Stockton on (#796RX)
Iran could attack seven undersea cables that run through the Strait of Hormuz, describing them as "legitimate new targets" in a potential "third phase" of further conflict with the United States.
by Oliver Haslam on (#796RY)
Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly upgrading their factories to produce more advanced RAM chips designed for AI data centers in an attempt to fend off competition from Chinese companies.
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by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal on (#796RZ)
Headsets are mainly about audio, but that doesn't mean that the "objectively" best-sounding headset by audiophile standards translates to the best-sounding headset by gaming standards.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#796S0)
Micron's Taiwan union is set to conduct a one-day strike at the company's Taoyuan DRAM facility as workers demand bonuses for this year and transparent terms of bonuses for upcoming years.
by Stewart Bendle on (#796P9)
Save $850 on a new Lenovo gaming laptop from Best Buy. Pick up the Legion 5i with RTX 5070 graphics and save 32%.
by Ben Stockton on (#796PA)
You can pick up this ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SS with a $200 discount, now $1,499.99.
by Shane Downing on (#796PB)
HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab's FLIP rover to the Moon's south pole to run HPL, HPCG, and AI tests.
by Shane Downing on (#796PC)
Three contract workers died, and one is in intensive care after a fall at TSMC's Fab 22 construction site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#796PD)
Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC keynote speech in Berlin was disrupted by a Greenpeace protest on Wednesday.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7968N)
AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.
by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#79668)
TP-Link is at the mercy of the FCC regarding its ready-to-go Wi-Fi 8 routers, so it has a sweetener in mind to move things along.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#7960M)
The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
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by Etiido Uko on (#7960N)
The U.S. Army is developing a program to deploy autonomous AI agents that can navigate digital and network infrastructures, identify targets, and neutralize" them.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7960P)
The U.S. government is helping fund projects to bring nuclear reactors back online in an attempt to provide more energy capacity to AI data centers.
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by Zak Killian on (#7960Q)
The new Oblivion Remastered Performance Fix mod is a pure code fix, with no changes to game assets or the game's visuals, yet it offers massive gains.
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by Joe Shields on (#795XJ)
Save $450 on Newegg's ABS Stratos II Aqua prebuilt - open the box and start gaming tomorrow saving the trouble of building and supporting your own
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by Ben Stockton on (#795XM)
$35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs have been bought by Chinese trio Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance, with demand far exceeding Nvidia's planned production, according to report.
Modern software is built on the backs of low-paid maintainers, opening the door to potential threats
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#795XK)
Modern computing remains vulnerable to the low bus factor of many open-source projects - continued lack of funding and manpower for voluntary-maintained infrastructure makes for a perennial threat
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) on (#795XN)
VR rendering technique of foveated imaging gets integrated into DLSS 5, making it much easier to run
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#795XP)
Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#795XQ)
Intel is concerned that the sweeping ban on foreign-made robots means that it could not update or maintain its fleet of AGVs.
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by Mark Tyson on (#795XR)
Windows 98 devotees now have (experimental) support for USB4 and Thunderbolt 3/4. Vibe coded driver also supports Windows Me, XP, Vista, and 7.
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by Mark Tyson on (#795XS)
A hobbyist converted a SK hynix 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit they got off Facebook Marketplace for $120 into a DDR5-7800 desktop kit.
by Oliver Haslam on (#795V7)
Over $5 million worth of gift cards for retailers like Target and Sephora were stolen from Staples when thieves gained access to an internal system.
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by Stewart Bendle on (#795V8)
Pick up a brand-new iBuypower Slate PC for just $899, a great entry-level gaming PC option for 1080p gaming.
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by Ben Stockton on (#795V9)
The TP-Link Archer BE9700 Wi-Fi 7 router is on sale for a limited-time only, down to $189.98, with six external antennas, a 10G WAN port, and four 2.5G Ethernet ports.
by Shane Downing on (#795VA)
Google DeepMind researchers say four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours, writing 2,783 programs with no human help.
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by Mark Tyson on (#795VB)
The Ukrainian military is claiming a world's first after using an unmanned drone to rescue an injured soldier on the eastern Kharkiv front.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) on (#795CC)
Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.
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by Oliver Haslam on (#7959J)
A Chinese hacker reportedly used a fleet of AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites, including farm equipment maker Deers and appliance outfit SharkNinja.
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by Mark Tyson on (#7956S)
Leading French eSports club Team Vitality has confirmed that its Paris HQ has been smashed up, with trophies, computer equipment, and more looted over the weekend.
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