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on (#70PSD)
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs says the island's chip sector will see 'no significant impact' from China's newly expanded rare-earth export controls.
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| Updated | 2025-10-12 13:00 |
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70PSE)
Apple has announced that it will double its bug bounty cap to $2 million.
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by mylesgoldman@icloud.com (Myles Goldman) on (#70PSF)
The Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 is a fun and impressive 96-percent mechanical keyboard. While at the time of review I was disappointed by the LCD screen's lack of features at the time of review.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70PSG)
Nvidia partnered up with modder JCustom to build a gaming PC inside an HRE FF21 wheel, adorned in OEM Python Green color-matched to the recipient's Porsche 911 Turbo S. This bespoke rig has custom liquid-cooling, a floating motherboard design, and a personalized RTX 5080 - all controlled by an actual key fob.
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on (#70PSH)
Computer scientists have revealed an innovative, expressive, two-way input peripheral technology dubbed HydroHaptics.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70PQS)
AI datacenters are driving up U.S. power demand and boosting coal generation by nearly 20%, but while nuclear plants supply the steady output needed for long training runs, coal and renewables mainly serve to stabilize the grid and absorb the sharp, unpredictable power spikes from AI workloads.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70PFR)
Western Digital is a reliable name in the storage market, known for solid performance at decent prices. The WD Gold 14TB HDD, therefore, is no different, and it's on clearance right now for just $240. Get your hands on enterprise-grade mass storage thanks to this discount code.
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on (#70PFN)
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What's on here?
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70PFP)
The Crimson Collective hacking group claims to have breached Nintendo's security and stolen files from the gaming company.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70PE4)
Battlefield 6 encountered issues on its launch day, and it took EA six hours to resolve the problem.
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on (#70PCD)
Two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in 7-Zip could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking users into opening a malicious ZIP archive.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70PCE)
UPS is experiencing issues with thousands of parcels due to incomplete information, resulting in customs delays and, in some cases, item destruction.
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#70PB8)
FLX-300 features an exceptionally low compression set, enabling printed parts to spring back to their original shape after repeated deformation reliably.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70PB9)
President Trump imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese goods and announced export controls on undefined 'critical software,' a move that could cripple China's tech and manufacturing sectors more than tariffs themselves.
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on (#70PBA)
I prefer using Linux, but upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 was a smooth process. If you are being nagged to upgrade before October 14, then this how to will show just how easy it is.
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on (#70PBB)
A wedding video on social media shows a young couple exchanging gifts, with the groom receiving a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.
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on (#70PBC)
A resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma is facing a potential 20 years in prison, for supplying another individual hundreds of 3D printed gun components.
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on (#70PBD)
The next generation of Titan Evo range sees a new leatherette fabric and supportive padding to keep you gaming and working in relative comfort.
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on (#70P8J)
A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#70P21)
Hours after the Battlefield 6 launch, concurrent player counts have reached upwards of 747,000 on Steam, making the game the third most-played game on the platform.
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on (#70NZX)
InferenceMax AI benchmark measures software stacks, efficiency, and TCO
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70NZY)
President Trump, in a fiery Truth Social post, has just warned China about potential new tarriffs as a response to Beijing's expanded export controls surrounding rare earth minerals. Trump says for every element China monopolizes, America has two, and that other moves are also being considered in retaliation.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70NZZ)
Intel has begun mass production of its Core Ultra 3 'Panther Lake' processors built on 18A node at Fab 52 in Arizona, marking the first large-scale deployment of this advanced process ahead of TSMC's N2.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70NXB)
The Senate just passed the bill forcing Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US orders over exports.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70NXC)
SoftBank is securing a $5 billion loan backed by Arm shares to expand its OpenAI and AI infrastructure investments, raising total Arm-collateralized debt to $18.5 billion and further highlighting its leveraged AI expansion strategy.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70NTH)
Microsoft is canceling its plans to build a data center near the Oak Creek Power Plant after the community rallied against its plans.
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on (#70NTJ)
Save $350 off the price of Alienware's gorgeous 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor.
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on (#70NTK)
China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70NQR)
Beijing has banned TechInsights from doing business with Chinese companies because it has "defied China's strong objections to engage in activities such as so-called military-technical cooperation with Taiwan, made malicious remarks concerning China, and assisted foreign governments in suppressing Chinese companies."
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70NQS)
Microsoft has just added a GB300 NVL72 supercluster to Azure, deploying a total of 4,608 GB300 GPUs across 64 racks. Each rack consists of 72x GPUs interconnected via NVLink, allowing for 1.44 PFLOPS of FP4 Tensor Core performance. Each rack is then intra-connected via Quantum-X800 InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s per GPU.
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on (#70NN8)
Chinese customs authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on unlicensed Nvidia chip shipments, with enforcement teams deploying at major ports to inspect hardware shipments.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70NJB)
An investigation has uncovered that a Singapore-based firm with Chinese ties bought $2 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPUs through Inspur's U.S. subsidiary to funnel them to Malaysia and Indonesia, where they were allegedly used by clients from China or resold to customers in the PRC.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#70KVS)
This Seagate BarraCuda 24TB HDD is available at Newegg for $249-one of its best prices to date and an excellent deal for anyone in need of storage.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#70N3X)
Sony and AMD teased several new technologies that will be making their way into Sony's next-generation console, dubbed Project Amethyst. Upgrades include new cores for rendering path tracing in real time and a new interconnect that will boost AI-rendering performance.
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on (#70N0W)
Amazon Prime Day is over, but you can still get this awesome Lexar Play Pro 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 for a whopping 28% off.
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on (#70MXF)
3D printers need maintenance and with these great tools you'll be producing great prints all day long.
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on (#70MXG)
There are some great 3D printer deals happening right now, and we've found the best and put them all into one page for you.
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on (#70MXH)
An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth.
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on (#70MXJ)
858 TB of South Korean government data goes up in smoke, with no backups
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70MSW)
AMD is set to use TSMC's leading-edge N2 fabrication process for its next-generation CDNA 5-based Instinct MI450 accelerators, but Nvidia's Rubin may have an edge over these GPUs when it comes to brute force compute performance.
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on (#70MSX)
Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture arrives on Panther Lake CPUs, and Intel has used it to build its largest, highest-performance integrated GPU yet.
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Today, Intel is giving the world its first look at Panther Lake, its first family of laptop SoCs to incorporate cutting-edge 18A silicon. With Cougar Cove P-cores, Darkmont E-cores, and up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores, Panther Lake is poised to bring the efficiency of Lunar Lake and the scalability of Arrow Lake-H together in one family of chips.
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on (#70MPZ)
Here is live coverage of the best Amazon Prime Big Deals Day deals across tech, PC hardware, laptops, SSDs, peripherals, accessories, and more.
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on (#70MQ0)
China has expanded its export controls on rare-earth elements, adding new items to a growing list of restricted materials and processing technologies.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70MQ1)
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's plan to split leading-edge chip production equally between America and Taiwan seeks greater self-sufficiency and security but lacks clarity, overlooks U.S. industry realities, and remains largely symbolic given global dependencies on Japan, Europe, and Korea for materials, tools, and memory.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70MQ2)
Steam's upcoming "Deckard" next-gen VR headset is said to have entered production, with 400,000-600,000 units planned to be shipped every year. Deckard, which may be officially named the Steam Frame, is poised to cost up to $1,200, and be released before the end of the year.
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Legendary Windows dev confirms the infamous XP-era 'FCKGW' volume licensing key was just a leak, not a hack.
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on (#70MQ4)
Major banking institutions are starting to warn of an impending market correction for AI companies and their stock prices. Although not all agree when it'll happen, most suggest it is coming as the major industry players continue to invest in each other, driving up investments and share prices in turn.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70MQ5)
The U.S. has approved tens of billions worth of Nvidia AI hardware exports to the UAE under a new bilateral agreement linking up to 500,000 GPU shipments per year with $1.4 trillion in Emirati investment, in the U.S.
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on (#70MMA)
Discord has hit back at claims its recent breach via a third-party service revealed government ID photos of over two million users. Instead, it claims only 70,000 were affected, but it's been clear that it will not be paying any blackmail demands, regardless.