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Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#76PGA)
Tesla hires an Intel veteran, who most recently was responsible for installing advanced tools at Intel's Arizona fab that is now ramping production of chips using 18A fabrication process.
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Save 18% on a solid AMD AM5 starter bundle with a Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM, and an Asus B650E motherboard, a solid and affordable foundation today with an easy path to future Ryzen upgrades tomorrow.
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While Nintendo remains a holdout, this announcement essentially sounds the death knell for physical media in cutting-edge gaming.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#76PGD)
SpaceXAI is trying to win residents living close to the Colossus 1 and 2 data centers by giving them discounted internet access. However, critics say that this is just a PR stunt to help win the community, even as it battles two lawsuits based on air and noise pollution complaints from people living near its data centers.
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Anthropic has restored global access to Claude Fable 5, a day after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew the export controls.
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A big sale on NordVPN's top Prime package means you can save over $464 on a 2-year sub with three additional months thrown in for free.
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With no new GPUs or major mobile CPU platform launches surrounding the show, the laptop announcements at Computex this year fell into two disparate categories, appealing to users with very different budgets.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#76PB7)
A town in northern Philippines closed down all computer rental shops, with the mayor saying that these establishments distracted students from their studies and led to abuse and other dangers. The move came a little over a week after many people have started blaming a deadly school shooting in central Philippines on a violent video game that the perpetrators played.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#76PB8)
Virginia county asks all employees including schools to save power, due to AI-driven power requirements- state's 400-plus datacenters steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#76PB9)
A research firm says that PC deliveries for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 7%, with the entire industry expected to ship 14.4% less units for the entire year.
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Tagged partitions of a LLM's input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#76PBB)
Get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for just $314 at Woot.
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The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.
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xTool launched its 01 Omni Printer today at a special event in Berlin. The digital-to-physical tool firm claims this device is the world's first 4-in-1 printer," and said it was ready for makers to print it all."
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#76NS3)
AMD confirms plans to incorporate low-power CPU cores into next-generation heterogeneous CPUs to lower power consumption and improve energy efficiency.
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Microsoft is further pruning its Surface line, with the Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Go 4 going out of stock without clear follow-ups.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#76NS5)
Windows Defender "BlueHammer" vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns - event demonstrates lack of security awareness despite existence of patches
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#76NKK)
Meta just released the second version of its Brain2Qwerty non-invasive BCI, showing promising improvements that could lead to clinical trials. This system aims to build an interface that does not require invasive surgery, allowing patients to control a computer using their mind without needing to go under the knife.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#76NKM)
Nvidia reportedly abandons quad-dire Rubin Ultra GPUs in favor of dual-die Rubin Ultra due to 'manufacturing execution concerns.'
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Within a week of Fable's ban, GLM-5.2 had climbed to the top of the openly available leaderboards.
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This esports pro-friendly Razer Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition controller is on sale for a record low Amazon Price, now just $64.99.
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Taiwan officials raided Supermicro Computer's Taiwan office on Monday, alongside the homes of six individuals and three affiliated company sites
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#76NHE)
Authorities recover $1.3 million worth of data center supplies and equipment in a truck stop near Chicago. Equipment like this is a prime target for theft rings given its high value, but it's also likely difficult to sell given its specialized nature.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#76NHF)
Meta develops its custom Vistara CXL memory expander to use DDR4 memory with new servers running AMD EPYC 'Turin' processors.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#76NF2)
The Samsung 9100 Pro SSD is still sporting its Prime Day price. Grab one at this low price while you can.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#76NF3)
HamsterOS fits on just a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, and it's set for a full release this November.
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Maker's Pet has launched oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum that owners build themselves.
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The hardware is discontinued and the experience isn't perfect, but the fact that the emulator exists at all is a true technical achievement.
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Newegg has started selling G.Skill's Trident Z5 NeoX memory kits featuring AMD ULL technology, and the prices are already high.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#76N2S)
Zluda is back to a hobby, as the open-source project has lost commercial funding with version 6 but added early 32-bit PhysX support.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#76MZT)
Valve has asked Dbrand to stop selling its Portal 2-themed Companion Cube cases for the Steam Machine, since it never asked the company permission to begin with.
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After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that "it's a good idea" to consider re-introducing older GPUs made on trailing process nodes, the five-year-old RTX 3060 is back on e-tailer shelves, priced at $339.
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President Lee unveiled an 800 trillion won ($520B) public-private plan for four new Samsung and SK Hynix fabs, dwarfing the US CHIPS Act tenfold.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#76MT4)
Steamroller is the first commercially available prebuilt gaming PC running SteamOS, pairing standard desktop components with future upgradeability.
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Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron were sued on June 25th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#76MT6)
As CPP shrinking stalls, chipmakers find a new way to increase transistor density. Imec foresees 0.3nm in 2038, CFET insertion in 2038, HLSI era.
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Save $1,100 on this HP Omen 45L gaming rig, fitted with a 9800X3D, RTX 5080, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 2TB in SSD storage, all for just $2,499.99.
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Save on these brilliant Hoto tools for PC builders and hobbyists. Hoto's cordless rotary tool is now only $29.
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YOFC, China Telecom, and Dekoli claim a 51.3 Tb/s hollow-core fiber field-trial record over 206.5 km, using 1.2 Tb/s-per-wavelength WDM transmission without repeaters or remote-pumped amplifiers.
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Jonah Uellenberg won the Ping Pong Prize at the 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest earlier this month, with a version of Pong that recompiles its own source code on every frame.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#76M7S)
This 32GB DDR5 memory kit won't impress enthusiasts with its timings or design, but its aggressive price makes it difficult to overlook.
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At the International Supercomputing Conference this past week, Lenovo reportedly said the memory market 'it will never be like it was last year.'
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The Terk Box v1.1 looks like the closest DIY alternative to Valve's Steam Machine yet. 3D print source files are available.
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The US Department of Justice has announced that it has seized nearly 400 domains that were illegally streaming live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Loongson has announced the 3C3000, a 16-core LoongArch server CPU with DDR4 ECC, 32 PCIe lanes, 40W typical power, and performance claimed to match the earlier 3C5000.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#76M67)
Claude and other AI agents fooled into running malware with just a minimal GitHub repository - ask the bot to initialize the project and you get hacked
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#76M57)
Sony will delete 551 movies from PlayStation users' accounts in the UK on September 1, 2026. These are films distributed by StudioCanal that no longer come under licensing agreements between the two companies.
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A Japanese capsule toy maker has announced an official collaboration with ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI, and Intel to make tiny PC components that buyers 'can assemble and play with.'
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#76KXE)
The Gigabyte Aero X16 positions itself as a compelling mid-range gaming laptop offering a smooth high-refresh display, capable RTX 5060 graphics performance, and future-ready upgrade options.
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