by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7437V)
The Nvidia compensation committee set a $4 million cash bonus for Jensen Huang if he hits the company's fiscal targets by January 31, 2027.
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Seagate FireCuda X1070 SSD spotted at retailers — listed at $829.99 before any official announcement
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Seagate's unannounced FireCuda X1070 NVMe SSD appeared on Amazon and Best Buy listings this week before its product page went offline.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7436A)
California's civil suit alleges that these websites and their operators are willfully distributing 3D printed gun files and instructions that could allow anyone to print a gun from scratch in as little as eight hours.
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A Mozilla engineer has shared survey data and calculations suggesting that up to 15% of Firefox crashes are due to a bit flip.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#742WN)
If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on it via Steam. The best part? It actually plays really well, without any issues.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#742WP)
The RTX 5070 offers strong 1440p performance, 12GB of GDDR7 memory, and support for Nvidia's latest features like DLSS 4 and Reflex 2.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#742VP)
Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026.
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Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on March 6 in the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking a refund of tariffs it paid under President Donald Trump's executive orders.
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AMD's VP of AI software vibe coded the driver entirely using Claude Code, but it's meant for testing, not for deployment to users.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#742T2)
A software engineer gets access to 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners while tinkering with an idea to use a gamepad to control his robotic hoover. Gets $30,000 from DJI for an undisclosed discovery.
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Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs, could freeze hiring for cloud division
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#742RP)
A new study investigates whether science can trace 3D printed ghost guns" through chemical analysis of the filament used for printing.
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Over-eager developer has Claude Code Terraform his production setup, including database and its snapshots
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#742PS)
Nvidia strengthens its position on the market of discrete GPUs as AMD's market share continues to dive, whereas Intel fails to gain traction.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#742PT)
In a scarce market, clients don't take risks and go with the biggest, most reliable option, which ultimately benefits Nvidia as it sits at the top of the AI boom. Unfortunately, these data center escapades hurt regular human beings, too, but that's not the trillion-dollar corporation's concern.
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Cooler Master's Shark X mini-ITX case is finally available at U.S. retailers for $5,499.99.
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated it targeted the Bahrain facility specifically because AWS hosts U.S. military workloads there.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#742PX)
Apple's M5 Max processor shows unexpectedly high results in multi-thread workloads: an 18-core CPU beats a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench, but the built-in GPU fails to beat the GeForce RTX 5090.
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Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000.
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Newegg has raised the price of some Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory kits to $3,980; however, it's unclear whether this is a pricing blunder.
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Match your board to your build, use case, and future plans to avoid bottlenecks and wasted upgrades. Spend smart now to prevent paying out more later, even with a budget motherboard.
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The 512GB option, which was exclusive to the M3 Ultra chip and previously cost $4,000, no longer appears on Apple's configuration page.
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The fears over AI job market decimation may be overblown, according to economists working at the European Central Bank. A new report suggests that firms that make the most use of AI in Europe are also the largest job creators, hiring more people as productivity increases.
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#74218)
Sovol's super-sized SV08 Max is an enthusiast's printer with a few quirks that may make it tough for newbies.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#74219)
The U.S. Commerce confirms work on new export regulations for AI accelerators, but implies they will not resemble the ill-fated AI Diffusion Rule.
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Snap up this Acer Nitro V 16 gaming laptop for $1,249.99 in this limited-time Best Buy deal
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#741Z1)
Get a large 4K OLED monitor at its lowest-ever price.
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Asus' GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is built with a single-minded focus on quiet operation. It takes the world's second-fastest gaming GPU and reduces its noise levels to the absolute minimum thanks to an enormous heatsink and three cutting-edge Noctua fans. But its size, weight, high price, and polarizing design all make it a product for the Noctua faithful and quiet computing obsessives only.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#741Z2)
John Daghita, the lead suspect in a major crypto theft worth $46 million has been arrested by the FBI, together with French authorities. Daghita allegedly siphoned funds from government-controlled wallets to his own, abusing the access his father's firm held because of a federal contract with the U.S. Marshals.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#741Z4)
A vulnerability in Discord's SDK allowed Arc Raiders to unintentionally log private DMs and user account credentials to the game's log files. Embark Studios has since hotfixed the problem.
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United States DoJ, Europol, and friends bring down LeakBase cybercrime forum
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Microsoft CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will be capable of playing both Xbox and PC games.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#741G3)
The Trump administration is working on sweeping export regulations over AI hardware that will make large AI clusters a topic of intergovernmental talks.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#741CX)
The TCL 32X3A is a 31.5-inch 4K OLED monitor with dual-mode support enabling 1080p at 480 Hz for esports gaming. It features a "Matrix-Pure" true RGB subpixel layout for better text clarity, along with speakers integrated into its stand. On the other hand, the TCL 27P2A is a 1440p Mini-LED monitor that can boost to 1,040 Hz at likely 720p resolution.
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Intel's board of directors is getting a new independent chair, effective May 13, following the company's Annual Stockholders' Meeting.
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China's most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7419G)
Both AMD and Intel reports increased demand for CPUs, driven by AI agents' need for general computing power.
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Take advantage of Bench, the ultimate resource for PC hardware enthusiasts, offering a large database of benchmarks for you to browse through. We detail how the tool works, and what we're doing to keep results up-to-date here.
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#7416G)
While Bambu Lab builds tools to protect creators, a Chinese court case over 3D-printed Labubu fakes turns the tables on the 3DP giant.
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The Orico IG740-Pro is a competent, no-frills SSD that hits the right performance and power efficiency marks.
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A new vibe-coded operating system performed as woefully as expected during a 9-point check process.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74141)
China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust "response mechanism" to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its "competitive advantages in rare earths."
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DDR5 16G (2Gx8) chips averaged $39, up 7.4% month-over-month, while 1Tb TLC flash wafers jumped 25% to $25.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#7411G)
Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air with the M4 goes on sale for $1,299, its lowest-ever price at Amazon.
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AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, MSI MAG X870, and Corsair Vengeance RAM are just $999 in today's Newegg combo deal.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7411J)
The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.
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OpenAI is building its own code repository, prompted by a rise in GitHub outages and disruptions that left its engineers unable to work for hours at a time.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7411M)
Nvidia is reportedly working on a new RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up from 8GB GDDR6 on the existing model. Moving from 20 Gbps chips to 28 Gbps chips, the memory interface is also said to be reduced to 96-bit, from 128-bit on the original. Moreover, an RTX 5060 with a cut-down GB205 die is also said to be in the works, with otherwise same specs.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7411N)
Intel sees 'inbound interest' for 18A-P process technology despite 18A process variability.
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Publication Notebookcheck reports that Chuwi is shipping a different processor in the Chuwi CoreBook X than the one advertised.
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