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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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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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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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We're testing the impact of using a dedicated secondary RTX 5060 GPU to boost the performance of an RTX 5090 in a few classic Batman Arkham titles that support 32-bit PhysX.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook warns Mac mini and Mac Studio shortages could continue for months as developers rush to buy high-memory Apple Silicon systems for running local AI models and agentic AI workloads.
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The Hackinator delids an Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processor and prepares it for a die shot using unconventional techniques.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75BS4)
A Reddit user tried their luck with a $20 4TB external HDD, and, to no surprise, they received a microSD card strapped inside a card reader and hot-glued to the back of the plastic case of an "external hard drive."
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#75BGQ)
Canonical under sustained DDoS attack as Ubuntu 26 releases
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The Biwin M350 is a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD done right. It has good performance where it matters and good power efficiency, too. But it still has the weaknesses of QLC flash, like poor sustained performance.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75BC3)
The U.S. Department of War announced agreements with seven AI providers, allowing it to deploy multiple LLMs for its use and avoiding lock up with a single vendor.
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion.
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Xbox Mode replaces the standard Windows desktop with an Xbox-style interface designed for gamepad navigation.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75B98)
SoftBank is planning to launch an AI and robotics startup in the U.S. to build data centers. The firm is gunning for a $100 billion valuation and aims to list the startup this year.
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Huawei is reportedly on track to become China's top AI chip supplier as Nvidia faces export restrictions and customs delays. Analysts forecast China's domestic AI chip market could hit $67 billion by 2030.
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Commodore 64C Ultimate Edition reintroduces the C64's sleeker 1986-1994 styling across the range using original molds and tooling.
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ASML shipped 48 EUV lithography systems and 131 immersion DUV tools in 2025, generating 32.7 billion in total revenue and ending the year with a 38.8 billion order backlog.
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According to a filing to the Shanghai bourse on Wednesday, Wingtech's stock will carry a delisting risk warning starting May 6th.
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Best Buy has slashed the cost of this Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32 GB of RAM, 240 Hz OLED display, and a Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, knocking it down to $1,799.99 and saving you $400.
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Meta spent $72.2 billion on capex in all of 2025. The midpoint of its new 2026 guidance would nearly double that figure in a single year.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#75B50)
Intel details improvements of 18A-P that include higher performance, lower power, reduced variability, improved yields, and more.
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Get an AMD Ryzen 9850X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5, an X870 MSI MAG Tomahawk motherboard, and a 750W PSU combo deal at Newegg
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Retro Games Ltd and Blaze Entertainment put The C64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld up for preorder at $129.99.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#75B53)
Zero-day exploit instantly grants administrator access on most Linux distributions since 2017
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Major firms are finding the rising costs of AI hard to manage, as human workers are now often more affordable alternatives to AI within certain contexts. With many platforms switching to per-token billing and rising model costs, we may be reaching an inflection point where human workers are a more efficient way to spend.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#75AJ1)
Gamers have reported that Windrose is consuming abnormally high disk I/O while playing, with up to 30 MB/s of constant read/write activity to the drive across most areas of the game world.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75AJ2)
Bad weather has caused a shipwreck to shift from its original position on the seafloor, severing a crucial undersea link between Dongyin and Beigan islands. These two islands are strategically located near the Chinese coast and the northern mouth of the Taiwan Strait and reportedly have a heavy military presence of Taiwanese troops.
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Samsung and SK hynix warn that severe AI-driven memory shortages could persist through 2027 as exploding HBM demand overwhelms supply, tightens the broader DRAM market, and fuels record profits
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Get $239.98 off this Newegg Intel bundle - Score a Core Ultra 270K Plus, 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RAM, and an ASRock Z890 Pro RS motherboard for only $768.34
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75ACN)
The supposed new DRM policy surrounding digital PS4 and PS5 games has been finally debunked by Sony. You don't need to check-in online every 30 days for your games to still be playable, rather, only one check-in is required right after the game has been downloaded to convert a temporary license into a permanent one.
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively plan to spend $725 billion on capex in 2026, up 77% from last year's record $410 billion.
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An SaaS business got all its data back after its cloud data provider recovered critical databases that were ruthlessly wiped by an AI agent gone rogue.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75ACR)
Tennessee becomes the second state to ban crypto ATMs after its governor signs a bill into law restricting these machines starting July 1st.
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Reports suggest Apple may be shifting focus away from the Vision headset, despite ongoing hiring tied to its Vision Products Group, possibly implying otherwise.
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Snag this premium 4-item combo from Newegg featuring the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM, 2TB WD SN7100 M.2 SSD, and an overclocking-focused Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard for $2,048.99. The $398.98 off gets the RAM and storage for only $406
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A PC gaming enthusiast has shared a video demo of the new DS5Dongle which unlocks the full gamut of Sony DualSense controller features for Windows users who prefer wireless.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#75AAM)
Get an Alienware Aurora 5080 desktop gaming PC for $2,899.
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The results come as Chinese chipmakers continue to absorb market share from Nvidia.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75A8S)
Housing construction projects in Texas are facing delays of up to two months as contractors are having a harder time finding and keeping electricians. Data center projects are pricing out housing projects from the labor force as they offer 75% higher salaries and more benefits.
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Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#759PC)
Save 25% on this Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, on sale at Woot for a limited time only.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#759PD)
OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the infrastructure.
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Colorful's iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 is a capable premium mid-range motherboard built for overclocking, thanks to its robust power delivery, cooling, and design. It faces tough competition at its price point, but remains a solid, feature-rich option under $700.
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Google joins OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI in granting the Pentagon broad classified AI access.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#759H1)
Lenovo has reportedly stopped using magnesium alloy subframes in the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 to save on weight and thickness. This feature was first introduced on the ThinkPad T60 in 2006 and was added to ensure rigidity for the brand's workstation laptops.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#759H2)
TSMC adds support for face-to-face stacking, 6.5 m and 4.5 m pitches for the next generation of SoIC 3D stacking.