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Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes
RGB software is reportedly wreaking havoc on Windows PCs. The drivers used by these applications can trip up anti-cheat software, causing your games or entire system to crash. For now, the only solution is to disable the driver until an official update.
25 years after the death of 3dfx, the Voodoo 3 gets a Linux driver update — classic Voodoo GPUs can now boot without a PC BIOS
It's been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.
Snap-on LCD brings mini displays to any 120mm PC fan — Thermalright's Fan Frame Vision-1 lets you display information and custom themes on your case fans
The Thermalright Fan Frame Vision-1 is a clip-on 3.69-inch screen that snaps directly in front of your PC case fans. These accessories let you display temperature, fan speed, and other information across your case, and even create a unified theme across all the screens in your PC.
Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer
Solo developer Grow Now! Games has put a playable browser build of its walkable ASCII cyberpunk city online, powered by a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine and rendered in WebGL.
Logitech faces lawsuit for withholding $61M in tariff refunds from customers — lawsuit claims company extracted up to $97M from consumers in 2026 through tariff-justified price increases
Consumers who bought products from Logitech after it increased its prices due to tariffs still haven't received their refunds, even after the U.S. government returned $61 million to the company. Now they're suing for their refunds, saying that 'Company extracted approximately $73 million to $97 million from consumers.'
Razer HyperFlux V2 Review: The best wireless charging mat for Razer mice
Razer's HyperFlux V2 is a wireless charging mouse pad that works with current mice from Razer's Basilisk, Cobra, and Naga lines.
US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers — agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts
Siemens S7 PLCs, commonly used in critical infrastructure, are reportedly being targeted by hackers and could potentially lead to disruption of industrial processes, safety incidents, downtime or equipment damage, and more. U.S. agencies are telling operators to protect these systems by keeping them updated and ensuring that they're off the internet if possible.
Save $532 on a 480 Hz OLED gaming monitor — Amazon drops a massive 53% discount on the LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B
The LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B packs a 27-inch 1440p WOLED panel with a 480 Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, and support for DisplayHDR True Black 400.
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 22, 2026 — foundries, supercomputers, China, and how to not overpay on a motherboard
We recap this week's Tom's Hardware Premium articles, including our latest advice on your next motherboard purchase, a look inside Samsung's Fab roadmaps, and much more.
Desktop CPU shipments crater 20% amid high component costs, but AMD gains record share despite 'ugly' desktop processor market — Intel floods laptop market with millions of CPUs, but AMD still s
As Intel boosts output of data center and notebook CPUs, AMD manages to outgrow it and keep capturing market share from its arch-rival.
Storage unit auction winner finds retro Pentium 4 PC with a see-through, UV-reactive PSU — Y2K time capsule discovered among 100 laptops and hundreds of RAM sticks
This vintage PC build looks like it came straight out of the 90s with a bold, in-your-face look that make sure you can't mistake it for anything but a gamer's lifeline. What you're looking at is an Apevia X-SuperAlien case with a 500W Apevia PSU.
Gamer uncovers factory plastic left on RTX 3070 VRM pads after five years, causing overheating — claims removal and repasting dropped GPU hotspot temperatures by 30°C
A Gigabyte RTX 3070 owner discovered protective films covering its VRM thermal pads, after nearly five years of use potentially causing excessive temperatures and frequent black screens.
ASRock Steel Legend SL-1200P power supply review: A winning combination of genuine Platinum efficiency and a stand-out design
The ASRock Steel Legend SL-1200P is a visually distinct, technically capable 1200W unit with genuine Platinum efficiency, dual 12V-2x6 outputs, and a few thoughtful engineering touches that set it apart.
GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game
Take-Two Interactive filed two DMCA subpoenas demanding that Microsoft and Discord identify the person or people behind the "CyberLeek" persona.
Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542
U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average price paid for a new system rose 16% to $542.
Back-to-back Amazon CPU scam delivers empty Ryzen 5 9600X boxes in 72 hours — $ 10,000-a-month business customer captures fraud on camera
A PC shop that spends over $10,000 a month on Amazon hardware says two AMD Ryzen 5 9600X orders arrived with the CPUs missing.
Get a full-size Keychron mechanical keyboard for just $29 — 50% off this 104-key wired keeb with your choice of Keychron Super Brown or Red switches
Keychron's C2 Pro full-size wired mechanical keyboard hits an all time low of $29.99 at W00t with code KEYCHRON ($24.99 if you're new to Woot) - QMK programmability, pre-lubed switches, make this a great find while the deal lasts
Get a $75 discount on your next Corsair upgrade — stack your cart up to $350 to enjoy big savings
Corsair launches a back-to-school promotion offering $75 off qualifying purchases of $350 or more in the U.S.
SanDisk expansion cards for Xbox Series X|S now available on Amazon — alternative storage solution to Seagate, WD arrives on the market five years after the launch of the consoles
The SanDisk Optimus GX C50 expansion cards for the Xbox Series X|S are now available on Amazon starting at $249.99 for the 1TB variant. While gamers can use external drives to copy and backup games from the Xbox consoles, they need expansion cards like these from SanDisk or Seagate if they want to install more games.
Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' — OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury
Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman has now been sitting before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce for seven weeks.
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as &lsqu
A volunteer for Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to scan and upload books to the shadow library to help preserve human knowledge for the public. The move comes as more AI companies buy, scan, and destroy books to feed to AI models, which is easier and faster than scanning the written works in a non-destructive manner.
Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo review: A budget-friendly printer made even more budget-friendly
The Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo is an excellent four-color printer, but is it worth the savings without an enclosure?
Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2026: Progress amid turmoil
The continued industry advancements give us several new picks for our annual Tom's Hardware Innovation Awards: a set of products that set or expand the standard for others.
LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher
LG rolls-out laser direct imaging lithography machine for chip packaging and high-density PCBs.
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LG Display introduces new OLED deposition technique that uses lithography instead of metal masks — "FLiPP" photolithography delivers 1.6x brightness and 2.4x longer lifespan
OLED displays have long been manufacturer using a metal mask for deposition that wastes material, is expensive, and can sag under its own weight. LG Display's FLiPP solves this by using photolithography instead, relying on photomasks and photoresist layers to lock in the RGB subpixels.
Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions
An independent investigation on Supermicro clears senior management from any wrong-doing and also says that its financial statements were still reliable, despite the alleged diversion of its restricted products. Nevertheless, some of its employees from sales, technical support, and business development departments were fired for failing to 'follow Company policies or the Company's code of conduct.'
CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking
CPU-Z V3 introduces an overhauled validation system with over 100 detection points, and a new advanced validation feature that will check PC health with a stress test.
Micron commits $10 billion to new US-based Research Labs — Boise hub to target post-DRAM and NAND technologies and packaging
Micron's Research Labs to bring together the company's own research with research by customers, partners, universities, startups, and government organizations to develop pre-competitive IP for next-generation memory technologies.
H200 AI GPUs finally reach China under case-by-case import licenses, but it's already too late for Nvidia — homemade chips corner the China market as country seeks semiconductor independence
Most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, understood to be up to 100,000 units apiece, must stay outside the mainland.
Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap'
Nvidia has rejected a report published by The Information that it plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026.
Sandisk's new $2,200 NAS SSD lets you fill the drive every day for five years — 7.68TB M.2 flaunts eye-popping 14,000 TBW rating
Sandisk has announced the NAS 600 SATA and NAS 800 NVMe SSD lineups that target NAS environments.
Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout
Slovakia sought to modernize its traffic control systems by acquiring a batch of 279 new speed cameras, but they have Russian backdoors and multiple other security issues.
Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027
A 30TB TLC enterprise SSD now costs $22,600, 6.5 times higher the $3,460 it fetched around this time last year.
Save $900 on this 2-in-1 Asus ROG touchscreen gaming laptop with 64GB RAM — the 14-inch Flow Z13 machine ships with a 16-core AMD Strix Halo CPU and a 1TB SSD, perfect for games and AI
Save a huge $900 on this touch screen gaming laptop combo, the Asus ROG Flow Z13, now just $2,099.99.
DDR5 scalper bots now outnumber shoppers 10 to 1 — automated scraping hits listings every 6.5 seconds as 32GB kits surge from $72 to $392, DataDome researcher says
Bad bots account for 91% of the traffic reaching one retailer's DDR5 memory product pages, roughly 10 automated requests for every legitimate visit.
Cooler Master V Platinum 3000 power supply review: Verified Platinum efficiency for workstations, with a stellar 12-year warranty
The Cooler Master V Platinum 3000 is a 3000W, 230V-only workstation supply built by CWT, carrying four native 12V-2x6 connectors, verified Platinum efficiency, and a twelve-year warranty.
Grab Keychron's compact K8 wireless mechanical keyboard for an all-time low of $34 — 87-keys, Gateron Red switches, and white backlight keeb is 56% off
If you need a solid compact wireless gaming or productivy keyboard and you don't have a lot to spend, Keychron's K8 87-key option is down to its lowest price of just $34.99 (or $5 less if you're a new Woot customer).
Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Ala
Ypsilanti Township is blocking a University of Michigan data center designed for researching nuclear weapons by temporarily stopping the electrical substation it needs to operate. It also put a one-year moratorium on the data center's water connection request earlier this year/
CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars
Former Samsung engineers stole process recipe of the company's 18nm-class DRAM node to sell it to CXMT, according to a new report from Korea.
Dell XPS 13 (2026) review: the new bar for mainstream Windows laptop excellence
The return of the XPS 13 is a triumph of (somewhat) affordable premium portable computing. It's no powerhouse in terms of performance, but it gets more than enough right to recommend for Windows users who have been looking over their shoulder at the MacBook Neo.
Catastrophic GTA VI leak is a full working build — notorious hacker CyberLeek taunts Rockstar Games by spraying the word 'leek' onto a wall in-game with bullets
Cyberleek has leaked another in-game footage of GTA VI, with some social media users claiming that it an actual build of the title. This is the second leak coming from the hacker, who claimed that they will release more until Rockstar issues 'a public statement and apology with a concrete commitment to be better.'
Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
Synopsys has published silicon results for what it calls the first 3D PCIe 6.0 test chip, a 5nm PHY built into a face-to-face stacked package.
Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back
Loudoun County recently changed its zoning policy which treated data centers as office parks. These projects now have to go through an approval process from the people and the local government, a significant change after more than 25 years of easy approvals.
SK hynix will pay staff $50,000 apiece according to a tentative agreement with disgruntled workers — $1.79 billion potential profit pool will be split between cash and stock grants
SK hynix removes 10% operating profit cap for employee profit-sharing program; union agrees to get bonuses in cash and stock.
Seasonic unveils world's first 80 Plus Ruby ATX power supply — Prime Enterprise RX-1600 delivers 1600W with up to 95.4% efficiency
Seasonic has introduced the world's first 80 Plus Ruby certified 115V ATX PSU, the Prime RX-1600. The new unit features an efficiency rating of up to 95% at 20% to 50% load.
Get 32GB of RAM for only $241 in this 3-item gaming combo from Newegg —save $249 on this inclusive bundle with Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Corsair Vengeance RAM, and a Gigabyte X870E motherboard
Newegg's AM5 combo bundles 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Gigabyte X870E board for only $1,009.99. $249 savings puts the RAM at only $241
The supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI era — as privately held compute clusters are built, running HPL becomes a distraction
We review the current state of high-performance supercomputing, interviewing experts, including the deputy head of high-performance computing at GWDG, to find out exactly where the current race stands.
SMIC posts record $3B quarter and hikes wafer prices — US sanctions hand Chinese foundry a captive AI market
SMIC posted its first $3 billion quarter earlier this month, with revenue up 36.1% year on year, net profit nearly tripling to $479.2 million.
Physical media nostalgia sees fundraisers flock to Blu-Ray Kickstarter — drive with 9-in-1 dock achieves 160x funding goal halfway through campaign
A 'grand piano style' Blu-ray drive and USB dock has got tech fans excited over on Kickstarter.
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