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Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army — autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range
The US Army tested an autonomous breaching vehicle with an onboard counter-UAS turret during a live-fire exercise at Fort Bragg on August 18.
Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on AI servers — memory costs continue to soar
The increases will take effect on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems shipping early next year.
Nvidia’s GB300-powered DGX Station desktop tower listed for nearly $100,000 online — Enterprise AI powerhouse now available to buy for mere mortals with lots of cash
Nvidia's most powerful desktop offering, the GB300 DGX Station, is available to buy starting from just $94,930 and you can spec it up to $108,350. It offers 748GB of unified memory shared across the 72-core Grace CPU and Blackwell Ultra GPU, and it can be yours in a pretty standard-looking desktop chassis today.
Fake GTA VI ISO circulates on the internet a few days after leak, internet sleuths claim 113GB download is padded malware — testers claim file is 99.99% empty zeroes with 50KB virus embedded
A 113GB GTA VI ISO file is circulating on the internet, with its file name making it seem like it was the game build that Cyberleek is allegedly in possession of. But upon further investigation, it appears to just be a 50KB virus padded with zeroes to make it look like the real thing.
Modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone retroactively banned by FCC, certification revoked — Agency closes foreign UAS loophole on 230g HoverAir Versa
The Versa, a 230g pocket gimbal camera that snaps into a separate propeller chassis for flight, raised more than $230,000 at its debut.
TP-Link Deco 7 Pro BE13000 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Value pricing, but average performance
The Deco 7 Pro BE13000 is attractively priced on the hardware front, but a subscription is needed to enable many features of the mesh system.
Group plans one-week PlayStation blackout to protest Sony’s plan to end physical game production — calls for players to turn off their consoles or log out of PSN from August 23 to 30
A game preservation group is asking PlayStation users to stay away from their consoles for a week in protest of Sony's plan to axe physical game disc production. However, others say this is too soft, and a more concrete move would be to cancel PSN subscriptions en masse or refund purchases of pre-sold games.
Humanoid robots shatter Usain Bolt's 100m record, hits 23.8 mph before crashing into foam pads — video shows Tiangong Ultra logging 9.39-second sprint before colliding with padded wall
Two robots at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing beat Usain Bolt's 2009 100-meter dash world record. The Tiangong Ultra set a record of 9.39 seconds, while the Honor Lightning achieved a 9.47 record time, breaking the Jamaican runner's 9.58-second record.
Startup to use drones to keep clouds away from solar farms, 'Our ultimate goal is to reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes' — chemical-free tech promises up to 30% power boost for
Meteoric plans to deploy drones and use mechanical action to dissipate low and mid-altitude clouds covering solar power plants. The startup says that it already has a working prototype that cut artificial clouds by 13%, and that its drones are far more economical to fly compared to traditional techniques.
Asus ROG Strix XG32UQWMS 4K OLED gaming monitor review: Fast and flexible performance
Asus' ROG Strix XG32UQWMS delivers speed and flexibility with a 32-inch 4K Tandem OLED panel, dual-refresh modes, 240 Hz and 480 Hz in FHD resolution, plus wide-gamut color, HDR 500 True Black and Adaptive-Sync.
Lucky shopper finds RTX 5080 for just $702 at Walmart — saves almost $800 compared to current retail prices
Walmart's clearance aisle delivers another remarkable GPU bargain, with a shopper finding a PNY RTX 5080 for nearly half its current retail price.
Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment
Recent data published in the Soufan Center's July IntelBrief found hundreds of posts with threat language between July 2025 and July 2026, and a volume surge beginning in April.
Enthusiast mods GTX 1080 Ti with a dual-tower CPU cooler, sees up to 32°C reduction in temps — Mod yields 30W power savings and 9% higher FPS
What if you could have twice the CPU cooler in your computer? If that's a question that piques your interest, then TrashBench has answered your curiosity in droves with an experiment that ended up working incredibly well.
Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives
Maxell and Disk Union collaborate to release special edition UD-60U cassette tapes in Japan.
The world's first webcam was switched off 25 years ago today — 128x128 grayscale feed predated the World Wide Web to monitor a Cambridge coffee pot
It has been a quarter century since the world's first webcam was turned off for good. The Trojan Room Coffee Pot was retired on Wednesday, August 22, 2001, after 10 years of service at Cambridge University.
Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes
RGB software is reportedly wreaking havoc on Windows PCs. The drivers used by these applications can trip up anti-cheat software, causing your games or entire system to crash. For now, the only solution is to disable the driver until an official update.
25 years after the death of 3dfx, the Voodoo 3 gets a Linux driver update — classic Voodoo GPUs can now boot without a PC BIOS
It's been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.
Snap-on LCD brings mini displays to any 120mm PC fan — Thermalright's Fan Frame Vision-1 lets you display information and custom themes on your case fans
The Thermalright Fan Frame Vision-1 is a clip-on 3.69-inch screen that snaps directly in front of your PC case fans. These accessories let you display temperature, fan speed, and other information across your case, and even create a unified theme across all the screens in your PC.
Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer
Solo developer Grow Now! Games has put a playable browser build of its walkable ASCII cyberpunk city online, powered by a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine and rendered in WebGL.
Logitech faces lawsuit for withholding $61M in tariff refunds from customers — lawsuit claims company extracted up to $97M from consumers in 2026 through tariff-justified price increases
Consumers who bought products from Logitech after it increased its prices due to tariffs still haven't received their refunds, even after the U.S. government returned $61 million to the company. Now they're suing for their refunds, saying that 'Company extracted approximately $73 million to $97 million from consumers.'
Razer HyperFlux V2 Review: The best wireless charging mat for Razer mice
Razer's HyperFlux V2 is a wireless charging mouse pad that works with current mice from Razer's Basilisk, Cobra, and Naga lines.
US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers — agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts
Siemens S7 PLCs, commonly used in critical infrastructure, are reportedly being targeted by hackers and could potentially lead to disruption of industrial processes, safety incidents, downtime or equipment damage, and more. U.S. agencies are telling operators to protect these systems by keeping them updated and ensuring that they're off the internet if possible.
Save $532 on a 480 Hz OLED gaming monitor — Amazon drops a massive 53% discount on the LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B
The LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B packs a 27-inch 1440p WOLED panel with a 480 Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, and support for DisplayHDR True Black 400.
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 22, 2026 — foundries, supercomputers, China, and how to not overpay on a motherboard
We recap this week's Tom's Hardware Premium articles, including our latest advice on your next motherboard purchase, a look inside Samsung's Fab roadmaps, and much more.
Desktop CPU shipments crater 20% amid high component costs, but AMD gains record share despite 'ugly' desktop processor market — Intel floods laptop market with millions of CPUs, but AMD still s
As Intel boosts output of data center and notebook CPUs, AMD manages to outgrow it and keep capturing market share from its arch-rival.
Storage unit auction winner finds retro Pentium 4 PC with a see-through, UV-reactive PSU — Y2K time capsule discovered among 100 laptops and hundreds of RAM sticks
This vintage PC build looks like it came straight out of the 90s with a bold, in-your-face look that make sure you can't mistake it for anything but a gamer's lifeline. What you're looking at is an Apevia X-SuperAlien case with a 500W Apevia PSU.
Gamer uncovers factory plastic left on RTX 3070 VRM pads after five years, causing overheating — claims removal and repasting dropped GPU hotspot temperatures by 30°C
A Gigabyte RTX 3070 owner discovered protective films covering its VRM thermal pads, after nearly five years of use potentially causing excessive temperatures and frequent black screens.
ASRock Steel Legend SL-1200P power supply review: A winning combination of genuine Platinum efficiency and a stand-out design
The ASRock Steel Legend SL-1200P is a visually distinct, technically capable 1200W unit with genuine Platinum efficiency, dual 12V-2x6 outputs, and a few thoughtful engineering touches that set it apart.
GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game
Take-Two Interactive filed two DMCA subpoenas demanding that Microsoft and Discord identify the person or people behind the "CyberLeek" persona.
Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542
U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average price paid for a new system rose 16% to $542.
Back-to-back Amazon CPU scam delivers empty Ryzen 5 9600X boxes in 72 hours — $ 10,000-a-month business customer captures fraud on camera
A PC shop that spends over $10,000 a month on Amazon hardware says two AMD Ryzen 5 9600X orders arrived with the CPUs missing.
Get a full-size Keychron mechanical keyboard for just $29 — 50% off this 104-key wired keeb with your choice of Keychron Super Brown or Red switches
Keychron's C2 Pro full-size wired mechanical keyboard hits an all time low of $29.99 at W00t with code KEYCHRON ($24.99 if you're new to Woot) - QMK programmability, pre-lubed switches, make this a great find while the deal lasts
Get a $75 discount on your next Corsair upgrade — stack your cart up to $350 to enjoy big savings
Corsair launches a back-to-school promotion offering $75 off qualifying purchases of $350 or more in the U.S.
SanDisk expansion cards for Xbox Series X|S now available on Amazon — alternative storage solution to Seagate, WD arrives on the market five years after the launch of the consoles
The SanDisk Optimus GX C50 expansion cards for the Xbox Series X|S are now available on Amazon starting at $249.99 for the 1TB variant. While gamers can use external drives to copy and backup games from the Xbox consoles, they need expansion cards like these from SanDisk or Seagate if they want to install more games.
Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' — OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury
Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman has now been sitting before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce for seven weeks.
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as &lsqu
A volunteer for Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to scan and upload books to the shadow library to help preserve human knowledge for the public. The move comes as more AI companies buy, scan, and destroy books to feed to AI models, which is easier and faster than scanning the written works in a non-destructive manner.
Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo review: A budget-friendly printer made even more budget-friendly
The Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo is an excellent four-color printer, but is it worth the savings without an enclosure?
Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2026: Progress amid turmoil
The continued industry advancements give us several new picks for our annual Tom's Hardware Innovation Awards: a set of products that set or expand the standard for others.
LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher
LG rolls-out laser direct imaging lithography machine for chip packaging and high-density PCBs.
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LG Display introduces new OLED deposition technique that uses lithography instead of metal masks — "FLiPP" photolithography delivers 1.6x brightness and 2.4x longer lifespan
OLED displays have long been manufacturer using a metal mask for deposition that wastes material, is expensive, and can sag under its own weight. LG Display's FLiPP solves this by using photolithography instead, relying on photomasks and photoresist layers to lock in the RGB subpixels.
Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions
An independent investigation on Supermicro clears senior management from any wrong-doing and also says that its financial statements were still reliable, despite the alleged diversion of its restricted products. Nevertheless, some of its employees from sales, technical support, and business development departments were fired for failing to 'follow Company policies or the Company's code of conduct.'
CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking
CPU-Z V3 introduces an overhauled validation system with over 100 detection points, and a new advanced validation feature that will check PC health with a stress test.
Micron commits $10 billion to new US-based Research Labs — Boise hub to target post-DRAM and NAND technologies and packaging
Micron's Research Labs to bring together the company's own research with research by customers, partners, universities, startups, and government organizations to develop pre-competitive IP for next-generation memory technologies.
H200 AI GPUs finally reach China under case-by-case import licenses, but it's already too late for Nvidia — homemade chips corner the China market as country seeks semiconductor independence
Most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, understood to be up to 100,000 units apiece, must stay outside the mainland.
Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap'
Nvidia has rejected a report published by The Information that it plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026.
Sandisk's new $2,200 NAS SSD lets you fill the drive every day for five years — 7.68TB M.2 flaunts eye-popping 14,000 TBW rating
Sandisk has announced the NAS 600 SATA and NAS 800 NVMe SSD lineups that target NAS environments.
Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout
Slovakia sought to modernize its traffic control systems by acquiring a batch of 279 new speed cameras, but they have Russian backdoors and multiple other security issues.
Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027
A 30TB TLC enterprise SSD now costs $22,600, 6.5 times higher the $3,460 it fetched around this time last year.
Save $900 on this 2-in-1 Asus ROG touchscreen gaming laptop with 64GB RAM — the 14-inch Flow Z13 machine ships with a 16-core AMD Strix Halo CPU and a 1TB SSD, perfect for games and AI
Save a huge $900 on this touch screen gaming laptop combo, the Asus ROG Flow Z13, now just $2,099.99.
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