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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#74WRZ)
Combining a 240Hz QHD+ display, Core Ultra 9 CPU, and RTX 5080 GPU, this deal offers high-end performance at a relatively competitive price point
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74WQK)
Lenovo has raised the prices of its Legion Go 2 handhelds (with Z2 Extreme) across the board, with the worse offended being the 2 TB model, receiving a 93% hike. It went from $1,480 at launch to a staggering $2,850 in the span of just a few months, while the 1 TB model is now $2,000, up from $1,350 at launch.
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Iran's nationwide Internet blackout has crossed the 1,000-hour mark and is now the second longest nation-scale shutdown ever measured.
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Kubb's colorful and compact 3-inch cube PCs are priced from $500 (430) with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSDs.
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After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74WM9)
Dave Plummer used several clever techniques to ensure that Windows Task Manager will always run while cutting the performance hit on your hardware when when it's opened.
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A TechTuber with a fondness for older hardware has managed to get Doom to run on a 40-year-old print controller.
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The Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K is a full-size wireless mechanical gaming keyboard with an 8 KHz polling rate and an impressive 660 hours of battery life at that polling rate. However, its high-profile keycaps and slightly heavy tactile switches weren't our favorite.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74WMC)
Beehive Industries will test its 3D-printed engines for use by the USAF, which are reportedly cheaper to build, use, and service compared to traditionally manufactured engines.
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The Linux 7.0 kernel has merged support for three new keycodes intended for a coming wave of laptops with dedicated AI agent keys.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74WJT)
A Redditor got his hands on this PCIe adapter that does the job of two different ones at the same time. It converts half-height GPUs into full height while adding M.2 slots for storage expansion. All this is possible thanks to PCIe bifurcation, splitting an x16 slot into x8 for the GPU, and two x4 lanes for the SSDs.
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South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said that the country's three major carriers will provide more than seven million mobile subscribers with unmetered 400 Kbps data.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74WJW)
Natalie Vock, a dev on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has introduced new fixes that optimize VRAM usage for games in Linux. Previously, any background task could make the OS evict game data from VRAM and throw it into system memory, but now it'll be able to correctly prioritize the game running in foreground.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74WAT)
The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom.
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Microsoft's Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add irritating,' productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74W7T)
If you've been looking to score a high-capacity kit of RAM but the AI boom has destroyed any chance of that happening, Newegg might have just the deal for you. The 96GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit usually costs over $1,100, but you can get it for less than half if you act quickly.
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Verbatim Japan and I-O Data have widened their joint commitment to keep recordable Blu-ray products on shelves in Japan, this time covering drive hardware as well as media.
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Tech DIYer Kent Walters has used a metalworking file to round over the corners of his MacBook. Apparently, some people freak out about this.
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We test dozens of laptops a year for their performance, screen quality, and battery life, to find the best laptops right now across Windows, macOS, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm notebooks.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#74W4D)
Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, while HV bypasses become plug-and-play
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74W4F)
Intel's new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is going after the Ryzen 7 9700X with its $300 price point. We put the two head-to-head in a series of rounds based on our own testing to see which comes out on top.
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by mylesgoldman@icloud.com (Myles Goldman) on (#74W4E)
The HyperX Eve 1800 is not a good keyboard, even for $50, as it's lacking in features and not pleasant to use.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74W4G)
Publicly available documents reveal that a Chinese AI data center company sold servers that were designed for Nvidia H100 chips despite the U.S. export ban.
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The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, download, and tinker with.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74W4K)
A lucky buyer on Reddit found a 2010 Mac Pro in a garage sale and it had a whole 'nother 2013 Mac Pro sitting inside. The tower didn't have any internals, which implies that the owner was likely using it as a sort of DIY enclosure for the trash-can Mac Pro, to perhaps mount extra stuff since the 2013 Mac Pro has no expansion slots.
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We put RTX Neural Texture Compression to the test with multiple GPUs and on a laptop.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74W2S)
The FAA's latest YouTube video is encouraging gamers to apply to become an air traffic controller, telling them that they've been training for this challenge. The agency is tapping on the younger demographic to help expand its numbers as the ATC shortage is hampering safety and airport operations.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#74W2T)
A research team at Specops benchmarked an RTX 5090, against two AI datacenter GPUs with Hashcat to see which GPU is the better password cracker. Spoiler alert, the RTX 5090 was the winner.
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Microsoft is simplifying the Windows Insider program with fewer channels, making it easier to switch between them and enable the latest features.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74VP4)
Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74VGF)
Framework founder Nirav Patel said that the personal computing industry is facing a massive change as big companies are forcing it to move towards a subscription-based model. Still, he vows to continue making hardware that will enable the personal ownership of computation.
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France is accelerating its digital sovereignty plans. In an official press release this week, the country's DINUM announced its exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system."
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Anthropic has convened America's big tech companies and the U.S. government to deal with the many bugs and vulnerabilities its new AI found, but this may be just the latest attempt by Anthropic to scare people into thinking its AI is the solution to its own discovered problems.
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Vdura has materially revised the enterprise SSD pricing figures in its Flash Volatility Index, telling customers in an April 8 update that the cost of a 30TB TLC enterprise drive climbed 472%.
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This seriously good Newegg combo deal combines the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and an Asus TUF Gaming X870E motherboard for just $989.98, bringing the cost of the RAM down to a just $196 and saving you over $200 as a result.
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Score a high-end AM5 bundle at Newegg: Ryzen 7 9800X3D, MSI X870E Godlike, and 32GB DDR5-6400 for $1,624.98-nearly $300 off. Includes a free MSI 240mm AIO and Crimson Desert, making this a top-tier premium PC deal.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74VE5)
Lexar toured us around its R&D labs and production facilities to see how it's building storage solutions for today and tomorrow.
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The Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 230V 650W is a budget unit that punches above its class topologically, though compromised active components and an 85C bulk capacitor keep it from being anything more than a competent entry-level choice.
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PowerColor's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB graphics cards receive a hefty $50 discount at both Newegg and Amazon.
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Prolific Danish YouTuber Mongo TV recently went viral, with his video series showing him enjoying' RDR2 at a glacial 4 FPS.
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Silverstone's IceMyst Pro 360 is a unique AIO that's designed for RAM overclocking. This review is tested with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU.
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DDR4 16Gb spot prices fell about 5% over the past month to roughly $74.10, ending nearly a year of consecutive monthly gains.
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in conjunction with the FBI and NSA, have issued an alert that Iranian-affiliated cyber attacks are threatening critical infrastructure, exploiting programmable logic controllers made by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley to gain access.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74VC8)
An MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z owner sent their $5,000 GPU for repair after damaging it while "practicing" soldering a resistor on the board.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74VC9)
An engineer and software developer was able to make a 3.5-inch floppy drive work seamlessly with the Tesla with just a USB-to-FDD converter.
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The clever software trick works on both x86 and Arm to radically reduce worst-case memory latency, but it has severe limitations, too.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#74TZT)
Intel's latest GPU driver is capable of booting Crimson Desert and can reportedly run at nearly 60 FPS at ultra settings on an Arc B580. But the game suffers from occasional crashing and visual artifacts.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#74TZV)
Intel tops $300 billion, its highest market capitalization in 25 years on AI, CPU, and foundry announcements momentum.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74TXE)
Geekbench 6.7 comes with Intel BOT detection to ensure any runs using it are flagged. The developer argues BOT gives unrealistic performance bumps to select workloads that don't represent real-world performance.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74TTF)
Nvidia's N1 SoC leaks yet again, but this time in the flesh, with potentially a laptop motherboard featuring the long-rumored chip. It was spotted on sale on a Chinese marketplace for roughly $1,400. The pictures show the PCB rocking 128 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, robust power delivery, and a decent I/O selection.