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A Brazilian modding team has improved its resurrected RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it by recycling parts from an RTX 2080 Ti and an AMD RX 580 to break a benchmark world record.
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Intel is returning to desktop workstations with Xeon 600. Granite Rapids WS CPUs deliver up to 61% better multi-threaded performance, according to Intel, sporting up to 86 cores and 4TB of memory.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#739GF)
As Nvidia is ramping up production of the Rubin platform, other 3nm-class process suffer
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Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are teaming up to block memory hoarding.
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The Trump administration will soon launch a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile designed to insulate U.S. manufacturing from supply disruptions tied to China's dominance of mining and refining.
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A Redditor recounts his experience with a Samsung 990 Pro clone that looks like the real deal.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#739AP)
Panther Lake chips with Arc B370 and Arc B390 iGPUs will require RAM running at 7,467 MT/s or higher since integrated graphics rely on shared system memory. If the RAM config is any slower, those impressive iGPUs will be relabeled to generic "Intel Graphics" in Task Manager in an effort to prevent vendors from under-equipping machines.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#739AQ)
Binning data from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3D samples was published online, showing the average required voltage the 9850X3D needs to achieve its peak single-core clock speed.
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Apple is beginning to feel the downstream effects of the AI infrastructure boom, as surging demand for data center hardware pushes up component costs and weakens its leverage.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7397J)
As Intel gears to launch its Arrow Lake refresh, leaks for the lineup keep pouring in left and right - the latest one being a Geekbench spotting for the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus. The chip scored 10.5% higher in single-core and 11.29% higher in multi-core tests compared to the existing Core Ultra 9 285K.
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AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture
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Raspberry Pi is increasing its prices again.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#7394H)
A professional modder has replaced the ROG Xbox Ally X's soldered LPDDR5X chips and modified the BIOS to unlock 64GB of memory
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Upgrade to 4K UHD on the cheap with Samsung's 43-inch M7 M70F 4K UHD monitor. For $299.99, you get a smart display that works well for TV, movies, and productivity.
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The venerable Z80 microprocessor has its own micro language model, and its quite terse in its responses
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The Lexar Play SE is a capacious but strange NVMe SSD with rare hardware. It puts up meager numbers.
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Save $200 on MSI's Katana 15 HX gaming laptop with RTX 5070 GPU in today's deal.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#7391Y)
The RayNeo Air 3s Pro continues to offer great value in the AR glasses space.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#7391Z)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says TSMC needs to work very hard to expand capacity in order to keep up with AI demand.
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Amazon-owned Woot has slashed the price of this 256GB Samsung USB-C NAND flash drive to just $24.99, securing you a cheap backup drive with a better-than-half-price saving.
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A recently published video shows real-time raytraced shadows in a game environment running within the improbable confines of a mid-1990s Sega console.
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As the cost of RAM, GPUs, and storage climbs, do what you can to help make sure your existing PC keeps working as expected until prices drop.
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A federal jury in San Francisco has convicted a former Google engineer of stealing confidential AI infrastructure data and transferring it to benefit Chinese interests.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#738JF)
Chinese researchers developed a salt solution that absorbs large amounts of heat when depressurized, making it a potential substitute to traditional, power intensive cooling solutions used in data centers.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#738JG)
New OLED and Mini-LED monitors sure look enticing, but they often come with eye-watering demands and sometimes you just need something simple. Samsung's G50D is about as straightforward as it gets with a 32-inch Fast IPS panel featuring 1440p resolution and 180 Hz refresh rate that supports both G-Sync and FreeSync.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#738GN)
SpaceX said in an FCC filing that it plans to launch a million satellites to serve as AI data centers that would deliver 100 gigawatts of compute capacity.
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Asus ROG Strix GS-BE18000 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router — Good overall performance and a wealth of LAN ports
by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#738GP)
The Asus ROG Strix GS-BE18000 hits all the right notes when it comes to hardware and software, and brings the performance to back it up on the 6 GHz and 5 GHz bands.
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A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre low-capacity USB drives we have ever seen.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#738ET)
The Ukrainian government has successfully blocked unauthorized Starlink terminals from operating within its borders, stopping Russian drones from using the internet service to strike targets deep within the country.
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PicoIDE is touted as 'an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.'
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Researchers say they have built a computer chip in a flexible fiber that is thinner than an average human hair.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#738EX)
Puget System just released its annual reliability report for 2025, noting which computer components suffered the least number of failures in testing and deployment.
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Security researchers are warning that the growing ecosystem around OpenClaw,' the self-hosted AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot, has already become a target for malware distribution.
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Today, in 1982, Intel introduced its showstopping" 80286 processor. This 16-bit fully x86 software compatible CPU delivered some major performance and architectural advancements over the 8086 and 8088, and would continue to be produced and feature in PC systems well into the 1990s.
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has added some beautiful PCB Metro Map bookmarks to its souvenir store.
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HANX, the first NDAA compliant drone, has been announced by the U.S. Marine Corps.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7384H)
If you're looking for a cheap but straightforward solution to access your old media locked behind an outdated storage medium, or just want to respect tradition and hold onto DVD/CDs, this external disc drive is the perfect tool for you. For just $10, you can read and write all your old discs with a USB connection on any computer or laptop.
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At least four Wisconsin municipalities are understood to have signed underhanded nondisclosure agreements concerning new data centers while negotiating their development.
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We spotted some outstanding Saturday deals on Lenovo's website, including powerful gaming laptops and high-end gaming displays.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#73831)
Google's Project Genie can generate games using the company's Genie 3 model, which is trained on prompts from Gemini. It's an experimental tool that doesn't even create fully playable games, but it was still enough to shiver the timbers of video game shareholders. Unity saw a 20% drop in its stock price following the reveal of Project Genie, along with several other firms.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73832)
Nvidia and OpenAI are still in talks about the $100-billion MOU the two parties signed in September 2025, and it seems that deal will be modified for a much "smaller" sum of tens of billions of dollars.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7381M)
Maingear is offering a high-end retro gaming PC based on the Silverstone FLOP02 "beige box" case, with a limited run of 38 units.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7381N)
An RTX 4090 has been caught melting on camera, with streamer "jessick" being lucky enough to record the incident for the internet. The GPU caught fire while playing and streaming Marvel Rivals on Twitch, and the video shows a wire melting with visible smoke. For some reason, jessick didn't immediately turn off her PC after seeing something on fire inside.
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As RAM prices soar, we show you how to do more with less RAM!
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73807)
SanDisk stock price went from $36 to nearly $590 per share in just a year, driven by a seven-fold increase in profits year-over-year, hitting $803 million.
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Duke Nukem 3D smashed the 3D FPS Doom clone mold in 1996.
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The Biwin Black Opal NV7400 is a solid performer with reasonable power efficiency and no real downsides.
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Sandisk has significantly increased prices on SSDs sold through its online store, with some models seeing increases of up to xx.
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Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s
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A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN's accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses.