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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77NPF)
Nightmare Eclipse drops ShieldBreak, another Windows zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability, but Microsoft has rushed quickly to block it with Defender
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on (#77NKK)
The case for near-packaged optics (NPO) is strengthening, as the growing pains of co-packaged optics (CPO) become apparent. We explain the material differences between the two technologies as optics and silicon photonics make waves in the AI industry.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77NDZ)
Astro's Playroom runs at 0.5 to 1 FPS on the Steam Deck when emulated through SharpEmu. It's not much - it's nothing at all, in fact - but just the proof-of-concept alone is enough to stir up excitement for both Steam Deck and PS5 emulation scenes.
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on (#77NE0)
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now the world's most valuable Chinese company after passing Tencent.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77NE1)
The Keychron C100 8K macro pad features 100 customizable keys, per-key RGB lighting, and 8K polling rate to give you the ultimate advantage in productivity and gaming. It also has hot-swappable Keychron Apex switches and transparent ASA keycaps, allowing you to further customize it to your liking.
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on (#77NE2)
Geekom mates an Intel Meteor Lake Core Ultra 9 processor with soldered 24GB DDR5 dual-channel RAM to conjure up an attractively specified and priced mini PC for the RAMpocalypse era.
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on (#77NE3)
We've scoured the internet and found the best deals on PC office and gaming furniture. Find the best desks, chairs, monitor arms, and more.
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on (#77NBQ)
Maxsun's Terminator B850M Pro II is a decent budget option in the Micro ATX form factor, but only if you can find it for the $199.99 MSRP.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77NBR)
Security researchers discovered a way to tap into the avionics of a Boeing 737 and remotely give its flight management computer erroneous data through in-flight Wi-Fi. This coin-sized device plugs into a diagnostic port in the plane's avionics bay and could easily be hidden behind its protective dust cover.
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on (#77NBS)
Save $274 and snag 16GB of DDR5 RAM for free in this 3-item Newegg combo with Ryzen 9 9900X, Asus TUF Gaming X870E-Plus Wifi7, and 16GB of dual channel Team Group T-Force Vulkan RAM
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77NBT)
Zoomsday vulnerability let anyone in a Zoom meeting take over anybody else. The vulnerability was developed with AI assistance and took research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundred of millions of people.
on (#77NBV)
Save 17% on this 8BitDo Ultimate 2 game controller for your PC or Nintendo Switch right now.
on (#77NBW)
Bag a new gaming laptop for under $1K at Walmart, thanks to a $350 saving on the latest MSI Cyborg 15.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77NBX)
Intel's Lip-Bu Ran reportedly buys $12 million worth of Intel stock as analysts believe that the management is increasingly convinced about landing external customers.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77N9W)
Public broadcaster Nine PBS is in trouble after its cloud storage provider went out of business and it now can't access more than 50TB of archival data. The data center hosting the files can't simply turn over the files, as it's legally owned by another entity, even if the channel is the ultimate owner of the stored data.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77N9X)
Alabama residents left powerless to stop 50 MW Bitcoin mining facility despite county and town moratoriums thanks to the state's lack of appropriate zoning laws.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77N9Y)
The FlipGo Horizon Pro brings dual 15.6-inch displays and a built-in hub.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77N9Z)
Elon Musk expects xAI to increase its nameplate power draw to 10 GW by late 2027, which will increase its performance by orders of magnitude what is available to AI today.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77NA0)
Cerebras keeps growing, but misses forecast as hardware sales dip amid explosive increase of AI cloud revenue.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77NA1)
PCIe 6.0 SSDs are almost here. We review the state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers from Micron and Samsung, as well as controllers that can handle 2 Petabyte-class SSDs with 28 TB/s read/write speeds.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77NA2)
A Redditor vibe-coded a Jellyfin front-end that mimics that old video rental stores from the 1990s. This simulation is more than just a selection screen, though, and is a complete experience on its own.
on (#77N0H)
Qualcomm has detailed the specs for its Snapdragon C processor, with 8 cores and claimed "all-day" battery life.
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on (#77MS2)
Oracle plans to cut more jobs this month, with reductions on some teams reaching double-digit percentages.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77MS3)
A data center GPU has become more expensive because of the AI boom enabled by unprecedented data center buildouts - shocking. Nvidia's RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell is now twice as costly as it was last year at the time of its launch, and 20% more expensive than even a couple of months ago.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77MS4)
Some data center developers are suing local governments for passing temporary bans and moratorium, saying that they such moves violated their rights to due process and equal protection. This move has gotten one county to reverse their decision, while others are still fighting the cases in court.
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on (#77MNY)
CoreWeave reported $2.58 billion in quarterly revenue, up 112% year over year.
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on (#77MNZ)
Suspected China-linked hackers used autonomous AI agents to breach Taiwanese government systems, compromising 85 accounts and stealing 2,500+ records.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#77MJA)
QIDI Plus5 is polished, huge, and produces excellent prints with some of the toughest technical filaments.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77MJB)
A new leak from Jaykihn says some Nova Lake SKUs, including mobile counterparts, will retain the cache config of their fully-enabled variants despite having reduced E-cores.
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on (#77MJC)
The U.S. wants Chinese optical transceivers out of future AI data centers, but China's current dominance of the rapidly evolving photonics supply chain could make a ban complicated
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on (#77MJD)
Samsung led with 25%, SK hynix followed at 22%, and Micron rounded out the top five.
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on (#77MGB)
GMKtec has positioned its new Evo-T2 mini PC, built around Intel's 18A Panther Lake silicon, as a compact personal AI workstation. It is also plenty capable of performing well in office productivity and gaming with 64GB LPDDR5X-8533 RAM.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77MGC)
European users of Anthropic's Claude models can expect that future versions of those tools will begin embedding digital marks in generated text and images to identify them as the product of AI.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77MGE)
PlayStation Remote Play allows you to stream games from your PS4 or PS5 console to a variety of devices locally, but the Asobi: Remote Play service goes farther by extending the PlayStation Portal's exclusive PlayStation Plus Premium cloud game streaming support to the Steam Deck and other Linux devices.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77MGD)
Samsung Foundry has delayed its 1.4nm-class node to 2029, making SF2 one of its longest-lasting process technologies ever. The company also aims to start using High-NA EUV for its 1nm-class process technology in 2030.
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on (#77ME3)
Acer's Predator Helios Neo 18 AI gaming laptop hits a new all-time low price at Amazon. This massive 18-inch laptop freefalls by $600 in price.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77ME4)
A flight carrying passengers who attended a cybersecurity convention reportedly had its Wi-Fi network victimized by deauthentication attacks while an 'evil twin' hotspot rerouted potential victims to a phishing website. While flight safety was never affected, it's unclear if any of the other passengers had their credentials stolen while in the air.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77ME5)
Lip-Bu Tan says he has a pet project related to a new memory architecture.
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on (#77ME6)
Get $106 off this 4TB TeamGroup T-Force G50 SSD, offering Gen 4 speeds and a huge capacity for a price that's hard to rival right now.
on (#77ME7)
After 40 years, Commodore has brought back the 'Totally Accurate Controller' joystick, better known among C64 and Amiga aficionados as the TAC-2.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77ME8)
Bookstores in Europe receive massive online purchases for obscure titles that haven't seen interest in years. They fear that these orders were made by AI firms looking to find more data to train their LLMs.
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on (#77ME9)
A Steam Deck enthusiast and modder is close to finalizing their SteamBoy' design.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77MEA)
Subco CEO Bevan Slattery said that the Australian Federal Police should determine what caused the shunt faults on two undersea cables, which happened in suspicious circumstances. They also noted that a vessel was passing over the area at the same time that the disruption happened.
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on (#77M36)
Razer's Naga V3 Pro has the same form factor as its predecessor, but it features more buttons, an upgraded sensor and switches, and better battery life.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77KXX)
As demand for high-end data center SSDs peak, SK hynix upgrades its Chinese facilities and plans Solidigm listing at NASDAQ.
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on (#77KV2)
AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77KRH)
Intel is raising $19.7 billion through a stock offering to strengthen its finances as it expands manufacturing capacity, develops next-generation process technologies, and is trying to attract major external foundry customers.
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The popular BC-250 APU has seen some major advancements over the past few months, including a 40CU unlock and enabling all eight Zen 2 cores. We put together a BC-250 machine to see how it works, and what these new mods offer.
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on (#77KPD)
DeepCool's latest AK G2 series air coolers feature your choice of woodgrain tops or a digital display. We've tested both AK620 and AK400 G2 coolers with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark their thermal efficiency.
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on (#77KPE)
The FCC is drafting a proposal that would expand its list of equipment and services covered by the Secure Networks Act to include imports of new-model optical transceivers manufactured in China.
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