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by Ben Stockton on (#78FK7)
A 4K-capable gaming machine from ABS, featuring the powerful RTX 5070 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD, all for $2,599.99.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78FK9)
Symbiosis DeFi network gets hacked for at least $770,000 worth of Bitcoin - DeFi exchange bit by lack of basic bounds checking in smart contract
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78FK8)
Huawei's mimics Nvidia's approach to AI factories, unveils details about next-generation Ascend NPUs, Kunpeng CPUs, scale-up and scale-out connectivity solutions.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78FKA)
Emani Rey Justavino of Jacksonville, Florida, was arrested for selling more than 50 'Glock switch' converters that gives the pistols fully automatic capabilities. The suspect claims that he 3D-printed the entire batch overnight and offered them all at a discount to an undercover ATF agent.
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by Jake Roach on (#78F19)
One Balatro player says they've taken Google's mapped fruit fly brain and trained it to play Balatro, currently at a 20% success rate with plans for further refinement.
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by Andrew E. Freedman on (#78F1A)
The Acer Swift Air 14 is an aluminum budget system with lots of ports and long battery life. But it sports a lesser display than its competitors, and tons of bloatware.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78EWB)
American nonprofit C4ADS, a monitoring organization funded mostly by the U.S. government, produced a report shedding light on the many ways that American AI accelerators reach China.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78EWC)
The Community Investment Framework puts forward recommendations that towns and municipalities could follow when negotiating with data center developers. This includes charging $1 million per megawatt of demand, among other suggestions.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78EWD)
Hacking group stegan0gram got its hands on a Flock camera and broke into its systems to see how it worked. It turns out that these devices store thousands of clips and captures millions of images, and could also detect people, aside from cars, motorbikes, and license plates.
by Joe Shields on (#78EWE)
Newegg's 2-item combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with MSI X870E Gaming Max Wifi motherboard for only $578 - the $149 savings makes this the cheapest way into the AM5 platform with one of the fastest gaming CPUs around.
by Mark Tyson on (#78EWF)
An artificial intelligence and games development enthusiast has demonstrated Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Hijacked map running natively in Minecraft.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78EWG)
Apple is reportedly interested in using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion for its own data center platforms.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#78EWH)
OpenAI says one of its unreleased models modified its instructions unprompted during testing.
by Ben Stockton on (#78EWJ)
This Corsair stock for 32GB Vengeance RAM means you can snatch DDR5 modules at some of its cheapest pricing right now, with a DDR5-6200 kit costing $419.99.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78ET8)
Next. Next. Click. FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. Enter.
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by Stewart Bendle on (#78ET9)
The Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer is on sale for $349.99 right now, a new all-time low price.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78ETA)
In 2023, Poland apparently lost $230m in cryptocurrency in an attempt to buy 6 million barrels of Venezuelan oil.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78ETB)
The UK's research agency is looking at airborne drones as an alternative to Starlink and other satellite internet services.
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by Zak Killian on (#78E70)
A developer has created a fully vibe-coded tool that seems to work to allow some GeForce RTX 50-series laptops to crank their power limits by as much as 28%.
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by Shane Downing on (#78E71)
Nanya-backed DRAM designer PieceMakers began trading in Taipei on Sept. 16 on a bet that AI inference memory won't be HBM.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#78E72)
Instead of pursuing traditional copyright infringement, Denuvo's case relies on the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, targeting the alleged bypassing of its digital protections.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78E73)
After five years, Samsung's 512GB DDR5 memory modules get their first direct rival from Micron, which also promises to offer speed bins up to 9200 MT/s. But their prices could be way too high even for hyperscalers.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#78E4G)
For smaller device manufacturers, rising memory prices are only part of the problem as limited availability forces companies to rethink everything from motherboard designs to procurement strategies.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78E1R)
State media outlet China Daily posits that Anthropic's Dario Amodei made the call to limit frontier AI development because Chinese AI models are catching up with American AI labs.
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by Stewart Bendle on (#78E1S)
Go big with an 18-inch gaming laptop monster. Save $600 on the RTX-5080-powered Asus ROG Strix G18 gaming laptop at Best Buy.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78E1T)
Nvidia CEO thinks that in light of his view of a three- to four-year timeline for Chinese development of advanced semi tooling, the country is "already there."
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78E1V)
Sources say SK hynix and Intel are in talks to start HBM manufacturing in the United States. Both companies refused to confirm the rumors, though, as SK hynix could potentially be put in a precarious position as trade talks between Seoul and Washington continue.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#78E1W)
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra spent hours just farming potatoes after dying and losing all of its gear during a Minecraft test.
by Oliver Haslam on (#78E1X)
Amazon Web Services' data centers in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain were struck by drone attacks more than six months ago. Now, the company has told customers to move their data to other regions, and it has no details on when repair work will be completed.
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by Zhiye Liu on (#78E1Y)
Redditor reported that Nvidia allegedly rejected their warranty claims for GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards because the serial number on the bracket was unreadable.
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by Ben Stockton on (#78E1Z)
Save $270 on this MSI gaming PC with a Intel Core i5-14400F, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD, all for $1,429.
by Shane Downing on (#78DZH)
Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report puts Kimi K3 about four months behind closed frontier models at 30% of the price.
by Shane Downing on (#78DZG)
A father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 of his employer's money on YouTube ads for Minecraft and Roblox videos in three weeks.
by Oliver Haslam on (#78DZJ)
A Reddit user has shared details of a new Balatro-playing AI bot that took on the infamous Gold Stake Black Deck with aplomb.
by Jon Martindale on (#78DJC)
The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other industry leaders, are calling for a general slowdown in AI development over safety fears. On the flip side, Chinese authorities, the U.S. President, and CEO of Nvidia have dismissed their concerns as fearmongering.
by Ben Stockton on (#78DCN)
This ultra-premium Asus ROG Edition 20th Anniversary Combo set at Newegg is super expensive at $10,849.96, but ironically, it's the 'cheapest' way to pick up an RTX 5090 right now.
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by Jake Roach on (#78DCP)
Following rumors of a Nova Lake desktop SKU with 12 Xe3P cores, tipster Jaykihn suggests that Intel has canned the design and moved the target to next-gen Razor Lake instead.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78DCQ)
Data centers in the U.S. are projected to use up more natural gas than most of the rest of the world to generate the electricity they need. Estimates suggest that 15 billion cubic feet per day are needed to keep data centers running by 2035.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78D9J)
The billionaire philanthropist says that governments across the world need to work together to ensure that the people are ready for upcoming upheaval brought about by AI. He even compared the technology to aliens in movies which got the world working together.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78D7X)
404 Media reports that OpenAI has hired hundreds of contractors to evaluate ChatGPT responses manually.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78D7Y)
Windows September 2026 update brings many long-requested features, but also surfaces fresh bugs - new code crashing AMD, HP, and Lenovo systems and surfaces audio, Explorer, and Remote Desktop problems
by Ben Stockton on (#78D7Z)
Save nearly $600 on this CyberPowerPC gaming PC with a 9800X3D, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD.
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by Mark Tyson on (#78D80)
Games optimization specialist OptiProjects (AKA OptiJeugos) has released a new port of Minecraft Legacy for the Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii consoles.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78D61)
A developer has built a 3D code visualizer.
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by Stewart Bendle on (#78D62)
Grab a new 12GB GPU for less than the MSRP launch price.
by Shane Downing on (#78D63)
Perplexity and Nvidia released Portable Computer for Windows on Sept. 14, bringing the local-first AI agent to GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with 24GB or more of VRAM.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#78CSS)
Anthropic has published a paper wherein it envisions a future for the economy where AI is deeply ingrained. In the most extreme scenarios, U.S. GDP is up, but unemployment simmers as others are put out of work.
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by Jake Roach on (#78CQ2)
The RTX 5090 is out of stock from first-party sellers online in the U.S., with third-party sellers now asking for as much as $9,500 for the GPU.
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by Zhiye Liu on (#78CQ3)
Nvidia launches the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition graphics card for agentic and generative AI.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#78CQ4)
We chatted with Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Jeff Leinbaugh about the Steam Frame launch, why the company is taking a two-pronged strategy with streaming and standalone support, and how the global memory/storage crunch affected development.
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