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ROG Swift 4K 240 Hz display with a QD-OLED panel and BlackShield coating breaks cover
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| Updated | 2025-12-24 17:15 |
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72CMC)
OLED screens, while the pinnacle of display tech today, still aren't perfect, and one area where OLED monitors in specific have struggled is text clarity. Either due to the unorthodox subpixel layout of these panels or the addition of a white subpixel, fringing around text has been a persistent issue, but LG has seemingly solved both at one go.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#72CJ7)
A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades.
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HP delivers reference-quality color and speedy gameplay with the Omen 27qs G2. It's a 27-inch QHD IPS panel with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, MPRT, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It also brings superb video processing for super smooth motion.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72CJ9)
Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72CGD)
Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist - only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own.
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Enjoy the 2025 holiday poem from the editors of Tom's Hardware.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72CGF)
Samsung announced new 27-inch and 32-inch displays for gamers featuring refresh rates from 165 Hz to 1,040 Hz.
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The United States has slapped a fresh set of tariffs on Chinese electronic components, but their implementation has been delayed until 2027.
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A huge $650 saving means this MSI Aegis Z2 gaming PC, with an eight-core AMD Ryzen CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 2TB SSD, could be yours for just $1,649 right now.
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The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah.
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15 years ago, the first Bitcoin mining pool was introduced by coder Slush.
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U.S. export policy is colliding with the realities of globalized supply chains, reseller-driven distribution models, and explosive demand for AI accelerators in China.
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In an attempt to keep prebuilt systems costs down and bypass a rocky supply chain, Maingear is offering custom build configurations where users provide their own RAM.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72C19)
Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up.
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Nvidia is preparing to deliver up to 80,000 H200 AI chips to China before the Lunar New Year holiday, marking the first time this level of silicon would be legally exported to the country since 2022.
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Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72C1C)
10 former Samsung employees are accused of leaking Samsung's 10-nm DRAM technology to CXMT, allegedly allowing the latter to achieve technological breakthroughs on stolen information.
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In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72BYB)
FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#72BYC)
Intel's Fab 52 in Arizona is currently the most advanced chip production facility in America, but it has yet to reach its full 40,000-wafer capacity due to low 18A yields.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#72BYD)
Conducted between late October and November, Operation Sentinel saw international law enforcement agencies shut down cybercrime infrastructure, decrypt ransomware variants, and prevent large-scale financial losses across the region.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72BYE)
AMD's dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel's forthcoming Xeons, and while they might not achieve core parity with Threadripper, their value proposition can't be dismissed just yet.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72BW5)
A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.
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ASRock's X870 Taichi Creator is a good, sub-$320 AM5 motherboard. Its strong all-around performance and creator-focused features - like 10 GbE, ample slot spacing/dual PCIe 5.0 slots, and numerous USB ports- make it a top mid-range option, especially for those who need a lot of expandability
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Take advantage of this Newegg deal on an ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, which has dropped in price to just $999.99. This pre-built rig comes with a ten-core Intel Core i5-14400F CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72BT5)
A developer got fed up with the eyestrain brought about by 14 hours of reading software licenses, so he solved it by turning an old ePaper tablet into a secondary monitor.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72BT6)
TP-Link is offering a nearly 50% discount for its 5-port gigabit ethernet switch, allowing you to physically connect up to four devices to your home network for under $10.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72BRF)
In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.
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Resideo sued by Nebraska AG over rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#72B9X)
The second iteration of Gigabyte's RTX 5070 Ti triple-fan Windforce graphics card comes with traditional thermal pads.
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No group has claimed the attack yet, and thankfully, water is still flowing in Romania.
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Chinese fabs are quietly extending the useful life and performance of older ASML deep ultraviolet lithography systems by upgrading key subsystems, as Beijing pushes to sustain advanced chip output.
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Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025.
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Priced at under $590 right now, Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld with an AMD APU and running SteamOS is the best value alternative to the Steam Deck right now.
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An acoustically-optimized power supply that prioritizes silence and efficiency over premium components, delivering impressive thermal performance and modern connectivity at a competitive price point.
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An engineering sample of an RTX 3080 Ti has surfaced in the secondhand market, according to a post on the Nvidia subreddit.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72B2G)
In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free.
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Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 in disguise
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This 15.6-inch Acer Nitro gaming laptop features an RTX 5060 GPU, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and all for just 899.99.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72B0B)
The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 - the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process if you choose to invest at least $500 in the project.
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Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion.
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A 1.14 inch secondary display built around an ESP32, that receives video frames over Wi-Fi, and you could build your own for $10. Sounds like a fun weekend project
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NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus.
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IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML's state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72AH5)
The ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC is on sale for $999.99, slashing $400 off its regular price. This pre-built comes with an Intel Core i5-14400F, an RTX 5060, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#72AH6)
Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave up.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#72AFM)
Market research firm IDC released updated forecasts for the PC market, saying that it could contract by 8.9%, with prices jumping up to 8%, if the memory shortage continues.
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The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#72AED)
If you have a short attention span and money to blow, the RayNeo X3 Pro might be up your alley, as it's expensive and has short battery life.
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