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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#75DHK)
Lenovo has focused on trimming fat and including a brilliant display and long battery life with the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition.
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on (#75DHM)
The facility will close a gap that has put JSR at a disadvantage relative to its two largest Japanese rivals.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75DHN)
Apple is reportedly in early talks with Intel and Samsung to secure more production for its advanced chips, as the company is constrained by the limited availability of advanced nodes that its SoCs are produced on.
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The Inland QN450 is a surprisingly capable Gen 4 drive with strong all-around performance and exceptional power efficiency. It outshines the NV3 but has hardware uncertainty and low TBW.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#75DHQ)
Nvidia's Jensen Huang reiterates that American companies should be able to ship their products globally, but maintains that the latest AI accelerators should remain in America.
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Every hardware component you need to build a top-tier gaming PC, all in one Newegg combo bundle. It also helps that it saves you a whopping $1,385 and includes a powerful RTX 5080 and 9850X3D.
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Grab a huge $1,120 saving on this RTX 5080 gaming laptop from HP, with 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD, and a 16-inch OLED with a 240Hz refresh rate.
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China is targeting 70% local wafer sourcing as firms like Eswin scale 12-inch production, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers and support growing AI chip demand.
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on (#75DFG)
Notepad++ creator Don Ho has filed a trademark complaint with Cloudflare and is threatening further legal action against the developer of a macOS port.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#75DFH)
A YouTuber has tested Intel's 12 P-core Core 9 273PQE and discovered the chip outperforms the Core i9-14900K by up to 9% in games potentially making the 273PQE Intel's fastest gaming CPU.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#75DFJ)
An enthusiast has taken the time to recreate the Apple Lisa, the first commercial PC with a GUI, with an FPGA board.
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on (#75DDW)
The SPEC CPU 2026 features more tests and an emphasis on portability, running on everything from fleets of servers down to a Raspberry Pi.
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on (#75D7E)
Intel appoints Alex Katouzian to lead client computing and physical AI efforts and confirms Pushkar Ranade as CTO, signaling a deeper shift toward AI-driven and edge computing systems
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The Trump administration is said to be discussing an executive order that would establish a government review process for new AI models before they're released to the public.
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on (#75D4Y)
Valve's long-anticipated Steam Controller sold out almost immediately, and scalpers have stepped in with price demands of $300 or more.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#75D2R)
Start your next gaming build with this this combo from Newegg featuring a Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB of DDR5-6000 memory, and a Micro-ATX B650M motherboard from ASRock for just $430.
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Secretlab dropped a Mandalorian Edition, along with other Star Wars-themed designs, to its Titan Evo gaming chair lineup on Star Wars Day.
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The Alienware 16 Area-51 is a slightly updated spaceship of a laptop that's powerful and finally gets an OLED display option.
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The Ryzen AI 5 435G shows similar performance to the existing Ryzen 5 8600G in new Geekbench 6 benchmarks.
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CISA warns of the actively exploited Copy Fail" Linux flaw (CVE-2026-31431), enabling root access, with a public exploit released before patches were ready.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75CVX)
In a new review for the Arc Pro B70, the workstation GPU performs rather well across five games tested at 1440p resolution. On average, it loses to the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in traditional raster but beats it in ray tracing. Overall, the B70 was only 2.9% behind the 5060 Ti in all games when you average out both RT and raster.
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Asian suppliers now represent roughly 90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from about 65% a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Newegg deal actually delivers. Score the ABS Kaze II Aqua with i9-14900KF and RTX 5070 Ti for $2,175 with code-over $1,100 off a powerful, ready-to-game prebuilt.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#75CSJ)
The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 appears to retain the same core configuration as its predecessor while adding more unified memory and slightly better performance.
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on (#75CSK)
Valve sat down with Tom's Hardware to discuss the new Steam Controller, its design, dealing with latency, and why you really need Steam to use it.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#75CQQ)
Demand for storage devices is so high that large customers are willing to sign up to five-year long-term supply agreements, according to Sandisk, Seagate, and Western Digital.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75CQR)
A new Ryzen PRO series processor has appeared on PassMark with just three samples, but a very promising spec sheet. The Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D is a 16-core Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache, making it the first of its kind. It performs quite closely to the standard 9950X3D it's based on, but likely has a lower TDP.
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A Chinese TechTuber scaled a tower PC large enough for a human to work and play in. It has air conditioning, too.
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on (#75CBC)
Nvidia is apparently discontinuing some older embedded platforms earlier than anticipated, but this is mostly about market reality finally catching up, not abrupt discontinuation.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#75CBD)
This Newegg bundle offers cutting-edge performance with practical value, combining AMD's latest flagship CPU with high-end supporting components at a discounted price.
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Reports of YouTube freezing browsers and consuming massive amounts of RAM are spreading online, with developers tracing the issue to a suspected UI bug that may trigger endless layout recalculations and severe system lag.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75C9V)
IAC, the parent company of Ask Jeeves, is finally putting the search engine out to pasture after 30 years.
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Anthropic has reportedly held early discussions with London-based chip startup Fractile about purchasing the company's inference accelerators.
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Chinese courts ruled that companies cannot automatically fire workers simply because AI can do the job more cheaply, declaring that automation alone does not justify dismissal under labor law.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#75C8D)
Jensen Huang says China has become a lost market for Nvidia due to U.S. sanctions, but warns that America could lose out in a broader AI competition.
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Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6.
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Video showcases the Nintendo Kawaii project, in which modders have shrunken a boxy GameCube down to a keychain.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75C6S)
Pretty much no games recommend more than 16GB of RAM, even in the unoptimized era we're living in right now. Only a few titles at their highest presets say 32GB is ideal, so Microsoft claiming that 32GB is the future-proof standard isn't exactly wrong. You'll be fine with 16GB today, but perhaps not tomorrow.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75C6T)
Amazon says that it will take months before it can return its Bahrain and UAE data center back to full operational status. In the meantime, the company suspends billing for affected customers while also recommending that they move to other Regions to restore service.
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Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare and expendable combat missions. The flat-packed AirKamuy 150 costs as little as $2,000 - far cheaper than many military drones.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75C1N)
Building a PC has its advantages, such as cheaper parts costs and a learning experience that'll stick with you forever. However, when our AI overlords suck the joy out of DIY custom rigs, we need to venture out to find good deals in such turbulent times, and these prebuilts from ABS provide exactly that.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75BY9)
The Wokyis M5 Retro Dock Station will add USB ports, memory card readers, and an external SSD enclosure to your Mac mini while giving you a small '80s Macintosh on your desk.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75BWP)
Sony increased prices for refurbished PlayStation 5 Slim consoles, following its move last month to make brand-new models more expensive.
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Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75BWR)
A French retailer is willing to sell you defective RTX 5090s for half of what they cost new, on the condition that you'll be able to repair or recycle them. You can either get a random 5090 variant, depending on stock, for around $1,760 or pay almost $2,000 specifically for an MSI Ventus 3X OC model. The units come with transport-related damage.
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The FCC estimates that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics are currently tested in Chinese facilities.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75BWT)
The U.S. Navy just signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab to build software to monitor other AI mine detection systems, identify failures, and push corrections in the field.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#75BWV)
A YouTuber made his own Peltier liquid cooling system to see if GPUs benefit from thermoelectric cooling. Sadly, the cooler was barely capable of cooling an RTX 3070 below ambient temperatures despite consuming over 300 watts of power.
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on (#75BVD)
Get your fill of Star Wars-themed tech that can turn your setup from Padawan to Jedi Master this May the Fourth.
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on (#75BVE)
Gigabyte's Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X lands square in the mid-range sweet spot, offering ample connectivity, five M.2 sockets, native Arrow Lake Refresh support, and CQDIMM compatibility, all for a compelling sub-$280 price.
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