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Slash nearly $300 off a two-year ExpressVPN subscription and grab four extra months for free — massive 82% saving on this privacy-focused VPN service with servers across 105 different countries,
Save nearly $300 on over two years' worth of ExpressVPN access with this 28-month deal for just $64.12, saving you a whopping 82% in total.
Standard Chartered plans to cut 7,000 jobs in AI push — lender wants to replace ‘lower-value human capital’ and focus on automation
Standard Chartered says that it will trim a huge number of positions from its back offices in a bid to increase automation.
Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose their supply, report claims — Intel 7 supply dries up, pressuring notebook and PC manufacturers in the US, China, and Taiwan
Intel has redirected its constrained Intel 7 capacity toward server and industrial customers.
MSI Raider 16 Max HX review: Elite gaming performance
Gamers seeking maximum performance will find MSI's Raider 16 Max HX a natural choice, particularly with the RTX 5090, as long as they're willing to pay up for it.
Save a whopping $900 on this incredible 4-item AM5 combo from Newegg — for only $2,269, high-end parts including the flagship 9950X3D2 processor, 64GB of GSkill RAM, 4TB of fast M.2 storage, and
Massively upgrade your PC with this killer combo deal from Newegg - Snag the latest Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, 64GB of RAM, 4TB of storage for an incredible $899.97 off retail.
LG unveils 'world's first' native 1000 Hz refresh rate at 1080p for serious competitive gaming — UltraGear 25G590B to launch in the second half of 2026
Unlike previous dual-mode displays that lowered resolution to hit extreme refresh rates, LG's latest monitor supports native 1000Hz gaming at full-HD resolution
Pick up an RTX 5090-powered prebuilt desktop for $5 less than the GPU alone — HP's Omen 45L costs $3,795 thanks to $1,265 discount
A new discount code lets you grab $1,265 off the HP Omen 45L with RTX 5090 inside. Making the entire PC purchase less than the GPU alone.
Intel's Project Firefly creates sub-$600 laptops to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo — leverages China's smartphone manufacturing blueprint to produce affordable Wildcat Lake systems
Intel China has unveiled Project Firefly, which borrows a page from China's smartphone supply chain to produce budget-friendly laptops that leverage Wildcat Lake processors.
Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections with 'Fabricked' — flaw lets malicious cloud hosts silently read confidential VM memory and forge attestation rep
ETH Zurich researchers disclosed Fabricked," a software-only attack that manipulates AMD Infinity Fabric routing during boot to undermine SEV-SNP protections on EPYC systems, enabling malicious cloud hosts to read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports
Fake Samsung SSD spotting comes to CrystalDiskInfo as AI crunch drives sophisticated counterfeit market — free open-source software can flag clones by checking firmware, PCI Vendor ID
CrystalDiskInfo's new feature will tell you whether your Samsung SSD is the real deal or not.
Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper, and radiator chimney, but struggle
Innovative London-based PC cooling firm Billet Labs builds and showcases a completely passive, fanless, gaming build.
Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent — Intense digital archaeology project has taken years, risk
A digital gaming archaeology project has archived 24TB of data, preserving a million squared block of Minecraft's infamous 2b2t server.
Next-gen mobile gaming just got $1,150 cheaper — Dell slashes RTX 5090 gaming laptop price tag to $4,399
Dell is temporarily selling its Alienware 16 Area-51 with a GeForce RTX 5090 for $4,399.99, $1,150 off its regular price tag.
Jury throws out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI after less than two hours of deliberation — Unanimous vote that Musk filed the lawsuit too late
A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday unanimously rejected every claim in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI.
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt found himself booed and jeered as he gave the commencement address at the University of Arizona, telling the students AI will "shape the world."
Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips — Adata, TeamGroup, and others take on substantial debt to survive shortages
Adata is the largest single borrower in the group, having completed a NT$2 billion convertible bond issuance and secured NT$12 billion in bank loans.
Why now is the best time to jump on the OLED monitor bandwagon — breaking down new-gen panel tech and our top burn-in prevention tips
Better reliability and dropping prices are making OLED monitors even more attractive.
China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and
China has begun full operations at a 24 MW underwater AI data center off Shanghai's coast, using offshore wind power and seawater cooling to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency
Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody invol
"AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved."
LG UltraGear 52G930B 52-inch 5K gaming monitor review: Extreme in every respect
LG combines the extremes of size and resolution in its UltraGear 52G930B. It's a 52-inch 1000R curved VA gaming monitor with 5120x2160 pixels, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync HDR600, and wide gamut color.
Grab this $8.97 TP-Link Ethernet Switch to ditch Wi-Fi lag and unlock 4K streaming and gaming at home — huge 47% discount for compact, fanless gigabit device with five additional ports for your
This TP-Link 5-port unmanaged Ethernet switch is back on sale, down to only $8.97 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking five extra ports for your network for a low price.
AMD's flagship RX 9070 XT GPU hits an all-time low $629 in Amazon lightning sale — Gigabyte's Gaming OC graphics card now $110 off
Save $110 when you make the most of this Amazon deal on the Gigabyte Gaming OC Radeon RX 9070 XT. Get yours for $629 - the lowest ever price for this model.
Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers
Samsung has been granted an injunction to limit the scope of planned strike action ahead of an 18-day walkout due to start on Thursday.
Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the
Internal Samsung wage negotiation transcripts show the company proposed bonuses of 607% of annual salary for its memory chip division in March,
Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon
What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn't want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties such as hall-effect joysticks. It can play any PS2 game natively for up to 4.5 hours on a single charge, which happens via USB-C.
Samsung 990 Pro gets discount of over $200 from recent highs — grab the 2TB model for $429.99
While SSD prices are still higher than last year, the Samsung 990 Pro at $429.99 feels far more reasonable than it did just a few weeks ago.
Japan can’t make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year — $4,000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud n
With record numbers of bear attacks on humans, Japan has been increasingly turning to high-tech solutions like the Monster Wolf robot. But production can't keep up with demand.
ASML to equip India’s first commercial chip fab — $11 billion Dholera project targets 50,000 wafers a month
ASML and Tata Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy ASML's equipment at India's first fab.
LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’
One LinkedIn user has fought back against recruiter spam in a very unusual way.
Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air
Russia's Mikron is earning a bit of cash on the side by selling picture-framed test wafers as souvenirs with 12 designs to choose from, priced around $170.
Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later
Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester's invention evolved from MIT's Project Whirlwind.
Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times
Microsoft is bringing Advanced Shader Delivery to Windows 11 PCs at large, after introducing the tech on Xbox ROG Ally handhelds last year. The company says you can expect up to 95% faster load times in Forza Horizon 6, for instance, going from 90 seconds to just 4 seconds on initial launch thanks to precompiled shaders.
US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals
The U.S. FTC is looking into Arm Holdings to see if it's abusing its market position as a dominant chip designer to gives its new chip manufacturing business an advantage over competitors who build semiconductors based on Arm designs.
Josef Prusa says Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box' — warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks
While the internet is up in arms over Bambu Lab threatening legal action against an indy OrcaSlicer developer, Josef Prusa once again warns of sheep in wolves' clothing. Prusa, the founder and CEO of Prusa Research and proponent of open source, has often noted that his company is the last Western manufacturer of desktop 3D printers still standing after China began subsidizing manufacturers within its borders.
China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores
China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen takes a page from Japan's Fugaku supercomputer and Fujitsu's A64FX processor, build LineShine supercomputer based entirely on Armv9-based LineShine LX2 CPUs.
OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents
The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, all generated by roughly 100 Codex instances.
Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence
The statement came hours after President Donald Trump told Fox News he opposes Taiwan pursuing formal independence.
Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to 'adversarial countries'
The Nvidia chief said that you cannot compare AI GPUs to nuclear weapons.
Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms
Sparky is an opinionated googly-eyed AI in a suitcase powered by an Nvidia Jetson Orin NS Super 16GB.
The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus — benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applications
The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, which never came out, was only marginally faster than the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, which explains why Intel ultimately chose not to release it. On average across 1080p and 1440p games, it's only about 2% faster, and in synthetic benchmarks and productivity workloads, it's less than 4% ahead.
Get an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for around the price of just the GPU — a high-end battle station for under $4,000
The Omen 45L may currently be one of the most sensible ways to secure an RTX 5090 gaming system without having to deal with inflated standalone GPU prices.
Trump calls $14 billion Taiwan arms deal a 'negotiating chip' with China after Xi said Taiwan issue could lead to 'clashes and even conflicts' — Trump says 'Taiwan would be very smart to cool it
Trump's remarks came at the close of a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally imp
Hill County passed a one-year ban on data center projects, as the country authorities study the effects their effects on the community. Still, the County Attorney warned that they could get sued if they pass this moratorium, with a Texas State Senator asking the State Attorney General to investigate counties that have done so.
60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market
A survey of Tom's Hardware readers has revealed that 60% of PC gamers are not planning to build a new PC in the next two years.
Modder uses Nintendo Switch to boost aging 3D printer's speed by 90%, dropping 3DBenchy print time from 90 minutes to a mere 8 minutes and 41 seconds — enthusiast claims big quality improvements
A keen nozzle-head has dramatically sped up their 3D printer using the portable power of a Nintendo Switch and Klipper firmware replacement.
AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure
Industry watchdog Monitoring Analytics says that PJM Interconnection is not doing enough to prevent power prices from spiking due to massive data center demand.
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D faceoff — Battle for the fastest mid-range gaming CPU
We tested both CPUs across gaming, rendering, encoding, efficiency, and pricing to determine whether Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh can finally challenge AMD's X3D dominance in the mid-range segment.
AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers — severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year
Major Chinese optical fiber manufacturers have booked orders stretching into 2027, as AI data center construction drives demand growth that the supply chain can't match.
First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple M5 architecture gets its first privilege escalation exploit
M5 Max MacBook Pro paired with RTX 5090 in an eGPU dock — runs Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100 FPS at max settings with frame generation
A software engineer figured out a way to run an RTX 5090 on an M5 Max MacBook and play Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100FPS. The process required a lot of tweaking, including running a Linux VM and using the FEX translation layer to get games to work.
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