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Updated 2025-11-13 05:00
Intel software fixes stamp down privilege escalation vulnerabilities, while microcode updates clean up CPU messes — chipmaker has its own Patch Tuesday as it stomps down 30 bugs
Intel stomps down 30 bugs including privilege escalation vulnerabilities
AMD's gaming-optimized Ryzen 5 7500X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache shows up in UK stores — here's where to buy AMD's latest budget X3D chip
AMD's Ryzen 5 7500X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache shows up in UK stores
Valve brings back Steam Machine and Steam Controller — hands-on with Valve's new AMD-based living room gaming hardware
Valve's new Steam Machine brings SteamOS to the living room with more power than the Steam Deck and the possibility of 4K gaming, while the new Steam Controller brings Steam Deck-style inputs to your couch.
Hands-on with Valve's new Steam Frame headset — Arm-powered, mixed-mode device uses new Fex translation layer for traditional x86 games
New Steam Frame headset is a streaming-first" device designed to run VR games from your PC, but it can also play traditional PC games via its Arm chip, thanks to a new Fex translation layer.
Microsoft patches Windows 10 issue that accidentally blocked extended security updates from installing — latest update should finally fix all the issues for ESU-eligible devices
Microsoft has published an out-of-band Windows 10 update that finally addresses all of the glitches surrounding Extended Security Update (ESU) enrollment. Installing this update should finally let you enroll in the ESU program on Windows 10 if you haven't been able to do so.
Framework Laptop 16 (RTX 5070) review: Yes, you can upgrade the GPU
The Framework Laptop 16 finally lets you upgrade your graphics card, and it can be customized to your heart's content. But it's expensive, and there are some visible seams that shouldn't exist on such a premium machine.
China officials overseeing allocation of high-end AI chips, prioritizing homegrown options — government's AI chip pivot accelerates as US export restrictions bite
Restrictions on U.S. chip exports are beginning to force visible shifts in China's AI compute strategy, as a shortage of Nvidia accelerators drives cloud providers toward domestic alternatives.
Google sues Chinese hacker group it says stole $1 billion from a million victims in 121 countries — 'Lighthouse' platform offers phishing services to crooks for a monthly fee
The Lighthouse Enterprise is a group of Chinese hackers that offers a complete service to scammers, from phishing websites all the way to sending millions of spam messages.
RTX 5070 Ti deals galore as prices drop below £700 in the UK — OCUK Early Black Friday sale serves up GPU discounts
Grab an RTX 5070 Ti for less in the UK, as Early Black Friday deals start to creep in.
Google strikes massive deal to buy 1.5 terawatt hours of Ohio solar capacity — 15-year deal will see most of 50 megawatt solar farm's capacity diverted to data centers
Google is buying 1.5 terawatt hours of solar capacity from French oil and gas supergiant TotalEnergies. The order could saturate the 50MW solar facility in Ohio that has yet to come online, meaning its entire capacity could be absorbed by Google data centers over the course of the contract.
This MSI RTX 5070 Ti hits a new low price of $729 — Newegg's Black Friday price protection guarantees a good deal
Pick up the MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX 5070 Ti for just $729 in Newegg's early Black Friday sale.
Best Motherboard Deals 2025 - deals on Intel and AMD motherboards
Here are the best motherboard deals.
Tiny386 emulator turns tiny microcontroller into a full i386 PC — tiny virtual machine can boot Windows 95 and Linux on ESP32-S3 chip
Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC
Kyocera develops wireless underwater communications tech that uses lasers to hit 5.2 Gbps — optical approach advances underwater drone comms, boasts blistering speeds at short distances
Kyocera built a custom system instead of using off-the-shelf parts to achieve this high bandwidth.
China accuses Washington of stealing $13 billion worth of Bitcoin in alleged hack — 127,272 tokens seized from Prince Group after owner Chen Zhi was indicted for wire fraud and money laundering,
China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.
Meta's 'godfather of AI' departs the company to form his own startup — Turing award winner Yann LeCun advocates for the development of World Models over LLMs
The 12-year Meta veteran and chief AI scientist, Yann LeCunn, may be leaving Meta in the near future to set up his own AI venture, according to associates. He's reportedly keen to develop his "world model," AI concept that learns from video and spatial data rather than text, like the current-generation of large language models.
First images of exclusive custom Xbox 360 launch console shared ahead of HD-gaming pioneer’s 20th anniversary — project leader Major Nelson admits he has never powered on 'Launch Team 05'
As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media.
AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025 — update delivers 15-second boot-up times with 256GB memory setups
An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.
Secretlab's Black Friday gaming chair sale starts now, up to $249 off select products — sale includes desks and accessories
Save up to $249 in Secretlab's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale.
Secretlab's UK Black Friday gaming chair sale has started, up to £200 off select products — sale includes desks and recliners
You can save up to 200 on Secretlab gaming chairs, desks, and accessories, thanks to Black Friday.
AMD reveals new roadmap for its Ryzen CPUs, teasing Zen 7 as the true "next-generation" leap with 2nm — Lineup confirms 2026 release for Zen 6, coming with expanded AI features
An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before.
SanDisk debuts Type-C 'Plug and Stay' flash drive that never needs to be taken out of your laptop — get up to 1TB of extra storage for just $120, with 400MB/s transfer speeds
SanDisk has created a new flash drive designed to be permanently integrated into your device, serving as a secondary storage solution.
SoftBank offloads entire $5.83 billion stake in Nvidia — firm sells off stock, cash will fund major investment in OpenAI, also in talks over Stargate
SoftBank has confirmed it sold its entire stake in Nvidia in October, offloading 32.1 million shares for $5.83 billion. The disclosure came Tuesday alongside the Japanese conglomerate's latest earnings report.
PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs
PNY tells Tom's Hardware that it is suspending upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions on storage due to rising NAND costs.
J.P. Morgan calls out AI spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout — equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netf
A J.P. Morgan report says that the AI industry needs to make at least $650 billion annually for investors to get a 10% return on all the money going into it until 2030.
Future of cable-less PC builds revealed — single 50-pin connector supports up to 2,145 watts to power a CPU and GPU with BTF 3.0
DIY-APE has just revealed a next-gen concept for back-connect PCs, using the new BTF 3.0 spec. A single 50-pin connector powers most of the PC, with front panel I/O being simplified into one connector as well. BTF 3.0 is backward compatible with prior BTF standards and even compatible with non-BTF components with the help of adapters.
AOC Q27G4ZMN 27-inch QHD Mini LED 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Incredible performance and value
AOC packs tremendous value and performance into its Q27G4ZMN. It's a 27-inch QHD VA panel with a 1,152-zone Mini LED backlight, DisplayHDR 1000, HDR10, a 240 Hz refresh rate, Adaptive-Sync, and wide-gamut Quantum Dot color.
AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC — affordable gaming CPU seemingly exclusive to retailer for now
This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.
Pay just $1299 for the MSI Vector 16 with RTX 5070 Ti graphics and 240Hz QHD screen in this early Black Friday deal — superb specs for such a well-priced gaming laptop
Save $700 on the 16-inch MSI Vector 16 gaming laptop in this early Black Friday deal.
Intel's CTO and AI chief leaves for OpenAI after just seven months in role — follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack
Intel's Chief Technology Officer and AI head has jumped ship to OpenAI to take over the company's compute infrastructure projects. Intel CEO, Lip Bu-Tan, will take over the role of managing Intel's AI efforts going forward.
Veteran dev’s newest computer is ‘200,000 times’ faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks — single-thread Dhrystone performance charted across 25 systems released between 19
Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.
Undersea comms cable investments double to $13 billion in over two years — ever-growing danger of cable cuts looms
$13 billion in two years towards undersea data cables
Grab this Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card for below RRP — just £379.99 for this punchy GPU before Black Friday
OCUK has dropped the price of this Zotac-branded RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to below its RRP, making it a brilliant bargain before Black Friday kicks off.
The 'worst-selling Microsoft product of all time' sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it — why you've never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20
A specialized version of the ill-fated OS/2 holds the dubious record, and probably will forever.
Frankly dangerous hot dog-based LED tester could be a Weiner in the 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge
An LED testing device' which largely consists of a hot dog, two forks and a power supply has been entered into an electronics competition
Elgato Facecam Neo Review: Versatile and cheap
Elgato's Facecam Neo is a budget-friendly plug-and-play webcam that performs well in low-light scenarios and works on just about any device with a USB-C port (including non-traditional devices, such as iPads). It cost $99.99 when it first launched, but the price has since been permanently cut to $59.99, which might be an unbeatable deal.
Chinese scientists discover method to cut defects by 99% with DUV chipmaking equipment, but it destroys EUV pattern fidelity — analyzing photoresist clustering with cryo-ET at 105°C
Chinese researchers have visualized how photoresist polymers cluster during development using cryogenic electron tomography and found that slightly raising post-exposure bake temperature could reduce defect density, but the finding has limited practical impact since this temperature is already typical for DUV processes and unsuitable for EUV lithography, where it would harm resolution and yield.
Musk confirms Tesla AI5 and AI6 will be made at both Samsung and TSMC, reinforcing dual-foundry strategy
Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla's AI6 chip will be manufactured at both Samsung's Taylor facility and TSMC's Arizona fab. The update from the company's CEO follows earlier comments in which he described Samsung's site as technically superior.
Minisforum launches its first ARM-based Mini PC with a full x16 PCIe slot for discrete GPUs — The MS-R1 packs a 12-core Cixin P1 SoC with up to 64 GB of RAM and generous IO, starting at $500
Popular Mini PC manufacturer Minisforum has just stepped into the ARM market with the MS-R1. It's a 1.7-liter compact system with the CIX CD8180 SoC, consisting of 12-cores clocked at up 2.6 GHz, with a 28W TDP. There's a full-size dedicated GPU slot and support for UEFI built-in, allowing you to easily boot into mainstream operating systems.
Early UK Black Friday PC and hardware deals — PCs, laptops, SSDs, and monitors already on sale
The best early UK Black Friday deals on PC hardware, accessories, and 3D printers.
T-Mobile refreshes 5G Home Internet service with new tiers and Wi-Fi 7 gateways — new $70 plan includes Hulu and Paramount+ subscriptions
T-Mobile's new 5G Home Internet plans go into effect on November 13
New 2 GB/s external SSD has a tiny screen for real-time updates on SSD health and performance — Nextorage's NX-PFS1PRO includes hardware encryption and an auto-erase security feature
Nextorage launches the NX-PFS1PROB external SSD with capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB, featuring added security features.
China suspends ban on rare earth exports to the U.S., but licensing controls remain — vital semiconductor manufacturing materials get one-year reprieve
China has lifted its ban on exports of gallium, germanium, and antimony to the United States, temporarily halting restrictions that had reshaped global materials markets over the past year.
Phison CEO confirms NAND prices have more than doubled and will continue to rise, all 2026 production already sold out — SSDs facing pricing apocalypse throughout 2027
Khein-Seng Pua, the CEO of Phison, speaking to Digitimes, has painted a damning picture of the storage market to come. With NAND prices already on the rise, the CEO believes there's no alleviation in sight and the landscape will remain rough for the following years. Data centers are rapidly shifting to SSDs to avoid already scarce HDDs, which will only exacerbate the situation.
Chinese camera company gives out gold keycaps worth up to $45,000 to top employees — more than 50 prizes given out by Insta360
Webcam brand Insta360 has gifted real gold keycaps, worth up to $45,000 each, to its most valued employees.
Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world
A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.
Biwin NV7200 2TB SSD Review: The Budget Winner
The Biwin NV7200 is a compelling new budget SSD that fits the bill for many users.
Micron delays New York chipmaking fabs by five years, but accelerates second fab in Idaho and reallocates CHIPS Act funding
Micron has reportedly postponed its New York fab project near Clay by several more years: Fab 1 is not expected is now expected to be completed in 2030 and full campus build-out is now projected to be fully ramped in 2045. At the same time, the company reallocates CHIPS Act funding toward its Idaho fabs.
Hoto's epic mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits drops to less than £30 — this half-price kit is perfect for PC building and DIY
Save 50% on this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits
Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power — huge installations are idle because Santa Clara can't cope with surging electricity demands
In the heart of Silicon Valley, two freshly built data centers designed for the world's most power-hungry computing workloads are standing empty.
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