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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7857T)
Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.
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Lenovo details its RTX Spark laptops — Yoga Pro 9n and Yoga 9n 2-in-1 get full specs, stylus support
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Lenovo detailed its RTX Spark laptops ahead of IFA in Berlin, releasing full specs and showing off stylus compatibility.
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Lenovo's latest IdeaPad laptops are all about colorful vibes. The Vibe lineup will come in seven hues, with swappable keyboard keycaps so you can match the chassis or go for a pop of contrast. The 14- and 15-inch laptops will land later this year, starting at $699.
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Lenovo is rolling out two new laptop concepts at IFA 2026: A 1.83-pound, 0.39-inch-thick AeroBlade using Frore System's AirJet solid-state cooling tech, and a compact 14-inch rollable-screen portable that expands to a 17-inch screen, dubbed Project Swan.
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Systems with Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X chips will launch in October in mini PCs and laptops, with the chips coming in two configurations.
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Nvidia's Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.
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AMD's Gorgon Halo chips are breaking cover. Ahead of IFA, Lenovo showed off the THinkCentre X Ultra with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7854P)
Intel's Core Ultra 400-series 'Nova Lake-S' CPUs are on track for mass production next quarter, but they will only launch in Q1 2027 with 28-core models coming first.
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Learn how to install an M.2 NVMe SSD in your PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Slim, or PlayStation 5 Pro in under five minutes.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7850A)
The people of Independence, Missouri, voted to recall councilor John Perkins after he voted to give a Nebius data center tax breaks amounting to more than $6 billion. Perkins said that a single vote should not be enough grounds to overturn an election from two years ago.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7850B)
Sam Altman says that a single almond uses up more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries. He said that the concerns of people about data centers using up so much water are nothing but a "robust meme," and that the claim doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
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Amazon is hosting a Labor Day sale with up to 46% off our favorite tech products.
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword closes out an excellent year for Capcom. We put the RE Engine to the test once again, benchmarking 31 different CPUs to see how they scale in the game.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#784Y6)
Intel gets rid of hundreds of vice presidents, replaces 'Fellows' with 'distinguished engineers,' changes 'standards of technical leadership.'
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#784Y7)
RPCS3 explains why modern temporal upscalers are difficult to implement in PS3 emulation as modders continue experimenting with the leaked DLSS 5 DLL.
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Packard Bell is back, under the wing of Acer at IFA 2026, with the Taiwanese PC maker's unveiling of the colorful Dot family, including a laptop, headphones, input peripherals, and more.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#784V4)
TSMC's equipment requirements have nearly doubled in just eight months as AI demand drives an unprecedented fab expansion, yet its 2026 CapEx budget has risen by only around 15%.
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Save $370 on a new CyberPower system with Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor and Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti graphics.
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Grab a 41% saving on this 5-port TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch, down to only $9.98 for a limited-time only.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#784V7)
Nexus Mods takes in SteamDB under its wing - new owners promise site will remain ad-free and non-paywalled
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A 'beautifully preserved in working condition' Apple-1 computer motherboard signed by Steve Wozniak with a letter signed by Steve Jobs is up for auction next month at Bonhams in New York.
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Sugon has released a teaser of an upcoming mobile workstation with a 64-thread processor and 16GB of VRAM to tackle AI models.
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Microsoft will begin enabling Memory Integrity by default on more eligible Windows PCs through quality updates in October, expanding kernel-level protection while preserving existing opt-outs for users who previously disabled the feature.
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Hybrid bonding, the copper-to-copper joining technique that replaces solder microbumps in 3D chip stacks, is in high-volume production on logic and freshly postponed on memory.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78477)
GoPro is merging with optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a deal worth at least $285 million. This move will wipe out the company's $92 million outstanding debt, let it start manufacturing its cameras in the U.S., and expand its portfolio to include optical transceivers for AI data centers.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78448)
Samsung expects HBM5 to deliver 4 TB/s of bandwidth per stack by late 2020s, which will enable AI accelerators with aggregated memory bandwidth of around 100 TB/s.
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Russian national faces US charges over a phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 PCs and stole credentials and personal data
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Tape storage companies celebrate capacity shipment growth of 57% YOY for Q1 2026.
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DLSS 5 officially releases later this week, but we tested it on the RTX 5090 using community mods to see what kind of performance drop and extra power draw you can expect.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7844C)
The leak was traced to a major ID-authentication service based in Louisiana, serving major companies like Hertz, Target, and the United States Coast Guard.
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With a massive 40% knocked off the list price, the HyperX CloudX Stinger 2 is only $29.99 on the HyperX store.
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Fractal's Define One rounds off the boxy Define, while still keeping the iconic closed-front design. A focus on GPU airflow and three included Momentum 14 fans highlight this $154 mid-tower chassis.
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The Fractal Summit is a good-looking, open-face mid-tower with real wood accents that's easy to build in. But noise-normalized thermals landed a bit warmer than we expected.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7841E)
This gadget only costs $7 but can help your catch hidden cameras through the use of the companion AI app that installs on your phone. It works by changing the location of the LED light source to compare different reflections and determine if it's a hidden camera or not.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7841F)
Clearly, one PSU in Vietnam did not live up to this expectation, as CCTV footage from a shop shows it bursting into flames as soon as it's plugged into the socket. Even though it caught on fire, thankfully, no one was injured as the tester acted quickly to cut it off from the wall.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7841G)
Electronic Frontier Foundation asks California governor to veto bill that would require online age verification - EFF argues A.B. 1709 would result in privacy-invasive checks and step on First Amendment
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This 32GB DDR5 memory kit from PNY is the cheapest you'll find on sale at the moment, now just $399.99.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#783YY)
These investments aren't massive one-time expenses - data center operators are expected to upgrade their expensive GPUs and related infrastructure every four to six years, as new semiconductor technologies arrive on the market.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#783Z0)
Techie creates a database of coil-whining graphics cards, PSUs, and AIO pumps - open-source project wants community reports of affected parts
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If your gaming rig spends most of its life doing nothing, a pair of startups would be willing to pay you something close to minimum wage for its downtime
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#783Z1)
A team of modders have taken leaked source code and recompiled it to run the game logic natively on the Switch's Arm-based SoC. As long as you overclock the system, you can get a relatively-stable 30 FPS experience without major battery drain or overheating.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#783Z2)
Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies' AI agents into running arbitrary code. This supply-chain attack, done via using data in public llms.txt guidance files, illustrates the dangers of data becoming code.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#783Z3)
Despite rumors, there is no evidence that Chinese makers of lithography tools can produce immersion lithography scanners in quantity.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#783Z5)
Claremore admits that one of its reasons for charging so much is because it fears that the documents will be "subject to wide distribution, including on social media."
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The entire second batch of Russian Rassvet satellites have failed to reach their target operational altitudes, according to reports.
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A developer revitalized his smart TV performance by using Claude Code to debloat it.
by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#783VJ)
Alienware's AW3226Q and AW2527HX gaming monitors target two different segments of the market.
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Dell's new 14S laptops are mainstream devices with more colors and more ports than the XPS 13.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#783A5)
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek as the companies expand their partnership into custom AI infrastructure with NVLink Fusion, local AI computing, and automotive platforms.
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The Alienware 16X Aurora pairs a gorgeous 240 Hz OLED display with solid performance, sturdy build quality, and strong upgradeability, though its size and battery life limit portability.
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