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by Oliver Haslam on (#798KA)
Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.
by Chris Stokel-Walker on (#798KB)
China has stretched older DUV lithography far further than expected, using multiple patterning to approach 5nm-class without EUV. But experts say the trade-offs in cost, yield, and die size mean further advancements are unlikely to be economically viable.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#798KC)
Bambu Lab's long-awaited tool changer H3C launches Nov. 3, 2026.
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by Oliver Haslam on (#798GA)
A security firm has been able to identify 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a China Telecom network, but it's unclear where the export-barred components are physically located.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) on (#798GB)
FCC bans a dashcam and wireless video transmitter produced by HiSilicon, a subsidiary of Huawei for containing an AI chip that advertises face detection algorithms.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#798GC)
Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 drives cost-per-task further down still - open-weight model is fit for agentic workloads and exceedingly cheap to run
by Ben Stockton on (#798GD)
The UK government has outlined plans for new powers and criminal offenses to help protect undersea cables in UK waters amid fears of Russian interference.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#798GE)
Several U.S. banks are blocking AI agents from making transactions on their platforms. They fear that those agents could go rogue and there's no way to tell if the moves they make are legitimate or not.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#798GF)
The user said that they only wanted to alert others about the importance of the upcoming CVE releases and weren't told about the embargo.
by Oliver Haslam on (#798DZ)
Claude and Grok are among the AI agents that are being used to automate attacks on Latin American institutions, including banks and payment apps, by a group calling themselves CyberCartel.
by Shane Downing on (#798E0)
Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the ARTEX AI agent framework in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain attack.
by Ben Stockton on (#798E1)
You can save $450 on this 4K-capable gaming machine from Newegg's ABS brand, featuring the powerful RTX 5070 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD for $2,549.99.
by Mark Tyson on (#798E2)
Wolves, who used to live in the forests recently cleared for Google data center development, are now roaming into Finnish villages nearby.
by Ben Stockton on (#798DK)
A rare prototype cartridge of Pokemon Red for the Nintendo Game Boy is on sale, with one $25,000 bid so far.
by Mark Tyson on (#798DM)
On this day in 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPod. He began the presentation by teasing 'a breakthrough digital device that's not a Mac.'
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#797WF)
One of the GPUs from a stolen shipment of RTX 5090 graphics cards has appeared for sale online. Police have identified three employees at an airport who stole the goods.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#797Q6)
Sony is following the footsteps of LG in ending Blu-ray player production.
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by Etiido Uko on (#797Q7)
TSMC is reportedly asking equipment suppliers for factory machinery that doesn't use rare-earth components, as the chipmaker seeks to reduce exposure to China's dominance of critical minerals and permanent magnets.
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by Jeffrey Kampman on (#797Q8)
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark might not be a gaming laptop first and foremost, but it certainly wants to game. We found that creating a custom 1920x1080-equivalent resolution for its 3:2 screen, missing from its out-of-the-box config, makes for a better experience.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#797Q9)
Leaked private keys for eight CA certificates let any attacker impersonate any domain - billions of older devices and software installations may be vulnerable after round of fixes, patch yours immediately
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#797JB)
Despite all odds, the AI boom is increasing relevance of tape storage as technology enables cheap storage with zero power consumption in idle and ultimate security with air gap.
by Stewart Bendle on (#797JC)
Save 33% on a new Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop at Best Buy. RTX 5070 graphics and a sharp OLED panel are highlights of this laptop build.
by Ben Stockton on (#797JD)
This Newegg combo deal combines the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a Gigabyte AM5 X870E motherboard for $1,029.99, saving you over $238 in total.
by Etiido Uko on (#797JE)
OpenAI says researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol uncovered two critical PHP vulnerabilities with severity scores of 9.2 and demonstrated working exploits, after which the company coordinated fixes.
by Shane Downing on (#797JF)
Google's TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.
by Oliver Haslam on (#797JG)
Almost 500,000 phishing emails were sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Kobe, Japan, hotel room.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7974F)
Intel makes progress on its manufacturing expansion in Arizona and Ohio as it continues to expand advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S.
by Stewart Bendle on (#796Y3)
The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro has its astronomical AI-driven high price slashed by 27%.
by Etiido Uko on (#796Y4)
Elon Musk says ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are expediting deliveries for Terafab, as Tesla and SpaceX target volume chip production in Texas by late 2028 alongside a massive expansion in AI compute capacity.
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by Zak Killian on (#796Y5)
New driver enablement work from AMD brings full platform-level tuning control to Ryzen systems running Linux, finally.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) on (#796V6)
Trump's latest post on Truth Social announces his plans to make data centers more popular among local communities.
by Etiido Uko on (#796V7)
Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.
by Shane Downing on (#796RV)
FADU's FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.
by Jake Roach on (#796RW)
AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.
by Ben Stockton on (#796RX)
Iran could attack seven undersea cables that run through the Strait of Hormuz, describing them as "legitimate new targets" in a potential "third phase" of further conflict with the United States.
by Oliver Haslam on (#796RY)
Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly upgrading their factories to produce more advanced RAM chips designed for AI data centers in an attempt to fend off competition from Chinese companies.
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by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal on (#796RZ)
Headsets are mainly about audio, but that doesn't mean that the "objectively" best-sounding headset by audiophile standards translates to the best-sounding headset by gaming standards.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#796S0)
Micron's Taiwan union is set to conduct a one-day strike at the company's Taoyuan DRAM facility as workers demand bonuses for this year and transparent terms of bonuses for upcoming years.
by Stewart Bendle on (#796P9)
Save $850 on a new Lenovo gaming laptop from Best Buy. Pick up the Legion 5i with RTX 5070 graphics and save 32%.
by Ben Stockton on (#796PA)
You can pick up this ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SS with a $200 discount, now $1,499.99.
by Shane Downing on (#796PB)
HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab's FLIP rover to the Moon's south pole to run HPL, HPCG, and AI tests.
by Shane Downing on (#796PC)
Three contract workers died, and one is in intensive care after a fall at TSMC's Fab 22 construction site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#796PD)
Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC keynote speech in Berlin was disrupted by a Greenpeace protest on Wednesday.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7968N)
AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.
by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#79668)
TP-Link is at the mercy of the FCC regarding its ready-to-go Wi-Fi 8 routers, so it has a sweetener in mind to move things along.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#7960M)
The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
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by Etiido Uko on (#7960N)
The U.S. Army is developing a program to deploy autonomous AI agents that can navigate digital and network infrastructures, identify targets, and neutralize" them.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7960P)
The U.S. government is helping fund projects to bring nuclear reactors back online in an attempt to provide more energy capacity to AI data centers.
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by Zak Killian on (#7960Q)
The new Oblivion Remastered Performance Fix mod is a pure code fix, with no changes to game assets or the game's visuals, yet it offers massive gains.