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Seagate to start qualifying record-setting 50TB HDDs in 2027 — most drives are sold out through 2028
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77ANQ)
Seagate expects to begin customer qualification of its 50TB-class HAMR hard drives in late 2027 with shipments in 2028 as AI-driven storage demand keeps production largely sold out through 2028.
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on (#77ANR)
An Nvidia employee has been implicated in the Supermicro smuggling scandal, with his home and desk searched. He's been detained over allegations of forgery and breach of trust. Meanwhile, Nvidia is collapsing its buyer list in order to root out potential smuggling chains.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77ANS)
Everyone who reserved the Steam Machine can get the chance to buy one before the year ends. Valve says availability differs between models and regions, and that some areas have already completed the reservations, meaning the company is opening the sale of the PC console to waitlisted buyers.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77AJR)
Lenovo is fulfilling demand for homemade servers to fuel the AI boom.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77AJS)
A GPU repair shop in the UAE is promising to upgrade the VRAM capacity of an RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB by swapping the 1GB GDDR6 modules with 2GB chips and modifying the strap resistors to recognize the new VRAM.
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on (#77AG8)
We tested laptops with processors from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple to see the differences in how they perform on and off the charger.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77AG9)
A Physics teacher was arrested for clapping multiple times during a public hearing to rezone land for a proposed gigawatt-scale data center near Emporia, Kansas. The man refused to cooperate when the police asked him to leave and was subsequently dragged out of the venue by four officers.
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on (#77AGA)
The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG is a compact, understated design, providing an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H in a tiny desktop. It's easy to upgrade and relatively quiet but could do with a few more ports at the back and a more attractive price.
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on (#77AGB)
Buying second-hand can be a great way to pick up a bargain on PC hardware, but you'll need to keep this advice in mind to make sure you avoid the scams.
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on (#77AGC)
SK hynix has reported second-quarter revenue of 79.32 trillion won, and operating profit of 60.54 trillion won, the latter up 557% year over year.
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on (#77AGD)
The drone arms race is set to enter U.S. schools with Mithril Defense's Campus Guardian Angel drones in at least nine schools across three states before the year is out.
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on (#77AGE)
Some tips for the average non-streaming webcam user to look better and more professional.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77ADT)
Intel seems to be working on a 16-core Nova Lake desktop APU with 12 Xe3P cores that will require 65W of power delivery on their own to achieve maximum performance. Two separate VCCGT phases will be needed to power said integrated graphics, since one phase can't sustain up to 65W.
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on (#77ADV)
Stock up on your favorite colors in this unbelievable Creality Hyper PLA filament bundle deal. Save 52% on 10 spools of high-speed printing plastics.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#77ADW)
We look at the state of SSD pricing one year into the AI apocalypse.
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on (#77ADX)
Apacer warns DRAM allocations to module makers could fall below 30% of 2026 levels as AI demand tightens supply and pushes memory prices higher.
on (#77ADY)
Two iBuyPower rigs are on offer at Walmart right now, both fitted with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, in a deal that could save you up to $700 on a 4K-ready gaming PC.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77ADZ)
Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 - potentially circumventing both U.S. export and Chinese import controls
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on (#77AC0)
Intel Foundry says that it has completed RAMP-C, the U.S. defense program awarded to the company in 2021 to stand up a domestic leading-edge chip ecosystem on its 18A process.
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on (#77AC1)
A developer has used OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol to help port a native version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to iOS and iPadOS devices.
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on (#779X3)
Get ready to head back to school with this $300 saving on Acer's excellent Swift Go 16 AI laptop with an OLED screen.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#779T3)
Techie "finds" Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces - Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though prototype warts are still quite visible
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on (#779T4)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared on the Relentless podcast that artificial intelligence has entered the technological singularity.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#779PV)
We look at the state of the DIY RAM market over the last 12 months.
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on (#779PW)
Apple launched its Upgrade program in the US, a partnership with Klarna to lease Macs along with iPads, Watches, and iPhones.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#779PX)
How far are you willing to go for physical media? That's the question the Neo Geo AES+ asks above anything else, given the $90 price tags of its game cartridges. Though, comparing it to its original prices from the 90s, especially when adjusted for inflation, makes it start to look like a bargain.
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on (#779PY)
Acer takes a unique approach to professional displays with its ProDesigner PE320QXT. It's a 6K 6016x3384 IPS panel with a touchscreen, webcam, tablet-style stand and a large color gamut for content creators, presenters and designers.
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on (#779PZ)
Not all motherboard VRMs are created equal. We break down the differences between budget and premium designs, how they can affect CPU performance, and whether paying more is actually worth it.
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on (#779MD)
For as little as $10 (or less on sale), you can use an old drive as external storage, but will that dusty drive deliver the speed you need?
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on (#779ME)
Save $1,000 on this MSI Aegis R2 gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5090, 64GB DDR5, and 2TB SSD for just $4,899.
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on (#779MF)
Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said that a licensing service sitting outside Xbox, which the platform depends on, began failing late on July 26 and took roughly 16 hours to clear.
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on (#779HW)
On the same day, CFO Anat Ashkenazi raised full-year capex guidance to between $195 billion and $205 billion.
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on (#779HX)
Save $200 on the Creality K2 Combo 3D printer bundle in Creality's Mega Summer Sales event.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#779HY)
ASRock has listed the long-rumored RX 9050 GPU on its website in both a 4GB and 8GB configuration, but has deleted those pages since.
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on (#779HZ)
Taiwan's prosecutors say they've detained a man surnamed Chang on suspicion of falsifying business documents, after investigators searched his home and workplace.
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on (#779J0)
Given the unprecedented surge in memory prices, we're looking back on Intel's LGA 1700 stack of CPUs to see how DDR4 and DDR5 match up with our modern gaming suite in 2026.
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New report reveals that AI companies are buying up physical books to train their LLMs and destroying them in the process.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#779J2)
Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame by using one text string to the machine, engine, and video output
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77978)
GPU prices seem to be on the rise once again with official distributor announcements in China hiking up the entire Blackwell lineup overnight. Compared to MSRP, we're witnessing a staggering bump of up to 75% at the top-end.
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Industry leading tech companies have formed an "Open Secure AI Alliance" that will build open-source models, agent harnesses, and cybersecurity tools, arguing that defenders need locally controlled AI after closed-model safeguards reportedly obstructed analysis of the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7794E)
Moonshot AI has released the weights for its recent Kimi-K3 model, directly going against OpenAI and Anthropic.
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on (#7791Q)
A state-backed company in Shanghai has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines and is due to deliver the first units this year.
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on (#778YW)
MMO mice are designed with many buttons to make it easier to play games with lots of spells and abilities, but MMO mice are also fantastic for automating your productivity workflows.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#778YX)
I go through the steps of replacing the standard 1TB SSD in an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ with a 2TB SSD.
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Today marks 20 years since the first raft of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, codename Conroe, was launched.
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on (#778YZ)
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is its most solidly built laptop ever, with a bright display and long battery life sweetening the deal - if you can afford it.
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on (#778WA)
OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy's 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.
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on (#778WB)
Getting a local language model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.
on (#778SW)
A Steam Deck devotee was so fed up with their family borrowing their handheld and leaving it with a flat battery that they have resorted to quite extreme anti-sharing measures.
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on (#778SX)
The company named Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza in its launch release, extended its annual CPU, GPU, networking, and rack cadence out to 2030.
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