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Non-functioning counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are circulating in Europe — Despite convincing packaging, blue PCB easily gives away the dupe
In Austria, a buyer has received two Samsung 990 Pro clones that don't function.
Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall — removed by officers after going a few seconds over allotted speaking time, trying to hand paperwork to couns
Darren Blanchard, a farmer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested for going over the time limit during a town hall meeting to discuss residents' concerns about a potential data center project in the area.
Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned
Just 35% of Virginia voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center going up in their community, down from 69% in 2023.
Struggling shoemaker and apparel brand Albird pivots to AI data centers, stock jumps 580% in a single day — sells core business and leveraging $50 million in financing to become a GPU-as-a-Servi
Allbirds announced that it's selling its core shoe and apparel business and will pivot to selling compute as a GPU-as-a-Service and AI cloud solutions provider at a $50 million infusion from an institutional investor.
IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Google services, matching IPv4 — increased usage eases pressure on the IPv4 address market as 'new' protocol designed in 1998 finally hits its stride
IPv6 usage reaches 50% across Google services
Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub
Open-source radar system is 95% cheaper than $250k commercial offerings
Elon Musk demonstrates first sample of Tesla AI5 processor, accidentally thanks TSC rather than TSMC — claims 40X performance boost over the predecessor
As Elon Musk shows off the first Tesla AI5 sample with a 384-bit memory interface, he says next-generation AI6 and Dojo 3 processors are in the works.
YMTC's third Wuhan fab clears Beijing's 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths
China's YMTC is expected to start operations at its Phase 3 Wuhan fab late this year as the first leading-edge memory plant built to comply with Beijing's unwritten 50% tooling requirement.
Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts
Your Steam games are about to get some new glanceable information next to their price boxes, according to recent changes discovered in the client's backend. Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to the platform, letting you see if the game currently costs the lowest it has been in the last month.
Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump — increases from 2025 driven by AI chip shortage across a range of formats and capacities
USB flash drives, SD cards, and microSD cards are becoming expensive as the NAND chip shortage takes its bite and expands to other storage options.
Enermax Platimax II 1200DF power supply review: Powerful with Platinum level efficiency
The Enermax Platimax II 1200DF delivers outstanding Platinum-level efficiency, exemplary power quality, and an audacious 13-year warranty, though its lean connector loadout falls short of what 1200W should offer.
Netgear secures conditional approval from the FCC following router ban — company can continue importing foreign-made routers through October 2027
Netgear secured a conditional approval from the FCC to continue releasing new models of several router lines, with the company saying in its SEC disclosure that it can launch new models indefinitely provided it can maintain its approval.
China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters — state hails successful trial and hints at deployment readiness
China has successfully tested a "deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator" that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters.
Corsair Vengeance RGB Custom Lab Cherry Blossom DDR5-6000 C36 2x16GB Review: RAM customization made easy
Corsair has launched a custom creator program to customize the memory you buy. Is it unique enough to make it stand out among the competition?
Get 64GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for an unbelievable $266 in this Newegg bundle deal — Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, MSI X870E Edge Ti Wifi motherboard, and a Corsair 3500X Case for only $1,099
Buy this incredible 4-item Newegg bundle for $1099.99 and receive 64GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6400 RAM for effectively ~$266 - an unbelievable value. $833 off this combo makes high-capacity memory cheaper than many 32GB kits.
Iran reportedly bought an in-orbit Chinese satellite to target US military sites in the Middle East — purchase agreement included ongoing ground control services based in China
Leaked documents allegedly show that the IRGC Aerospace Force is using a Chinese satellite to observe U.S. bases in the Middle East and use it for targeting American assets with drones and missiles.
Astonishing bundle makes 64GB of DDR5 RAM just $216, $100 cheaper than 32GB — get a 9800X3D, G.Skill Ripjaws S5 DDR5-6000 RAM, case, motherboard, and CPU cooler for just $999
Newegg bundle that offsets the price of this $884.99 kit of 64GB of G.Skill RAM to just $216.01.
Our lifestyle tech colleagues at Tom's Guide have overhauled their site for smarter shopping — more video and access to experts make it 'the biggest relaunch in our history'
Our tech colleagues over at Tom's Guide just relaunched their homepage, with destination-focused features like a dedicated live feed for news and expert reactions, AI-infused shopping and upgrading tools, and more short-form video.
Alienware's new OLED monitor disrupts the market at just $350, features a 27-inch 240 Hz panel — The 'AW2726DM' is limited to 200 nits, but comes with a 3-year warranty
Entry-level OLED monitors used to cost $500 last year, but you could find them for a bit less on sale. Now, Alienware has just launched the AW2726DM for $350. That's the MSRP, not a discounted price. For that money, you get a 27-inch gaming monitor featuring a 1440p 240 Hz QD-OLED panel with FreeSync Premium.
Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — 'Ising' said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding
Nvidia has announced Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum processor calibration and real-time error correction decoding that claims to offer substantial speedups over existing methods.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos might be the best overall AI model for cybersecurity, but cheaper models can attain similar results, research shows — cross-examination of the frontier model raises que
Anthropic's Mythos might be the best cybersecurity AI ever, but it's not the only one and it may well be the most expensive, raising questions about how useful it actually is, when weighed against the competition.
Sony launches 720 Hz dual-mode OLED QHD gaming monitor — 27-inch Inzone M10S II is aimed at hardcore eSports gamers
The 27-inch Sony Inzone M10S II can crank all the way to 720 Hz at 720p resolution
Intel's promising upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup reportedly includes an iGPU-focused SKU with 12 Xe3P cores — new leak claims a midrange 16-core CPU with powerful integrated graphics is in the work
A new leak claims Intel is prepping a 16-core CPU featuring 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, likely targeting the Ryzen G-series APUs. AMD's latest desktop APUs top out at only 8 RDNA 3.5 CUs, while the Arc B390M in Panther Lake already beats the Radeon 890M in Strix Point. That means 12 Xe3P cores on an NVL-S chip would be a heaven-sent for gamers.
Nvidia quashes rumor it’s planning to purchase a major PC manufacturer — says that it’s ‘not engaged in discussions to acquire any PC maker’
Nvidia said that it wasn't in talks with another PC manufacturer to acquire it, despite rumors saying that it has been discussing the possibility since 2024.
Grab the ultra-fast Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer for just $285 right now, saving you $128 — limited-time sale price nets you a fully enclosed Core-XY printer built for beginners and enthusi
The Elegoo Centauri Carbon, one of our all-time favorite 3D printers, is on sale for a limited-time only, down to just $285.
China's premiere memory-maker YMTC plans two additional Wuhan fabs using homegrown chipmaking tools — Phase 3 crosses 50% domestic tooling threshold
China's Yangtze Memory Technologies plans to build two fabs beyond the Phase 3 plant that it's due to complete in Wuhan this year.
Bambu Lab X2D review: Improving a fan favorite
Bambu Lab's first 3D printer, the X1, gets an overhaul.
Alienware AW2726DM 27-inch QHD 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: A price breakthrough for desktop OLED
Alienware smashes price barriers with the AW2726DM. It's a 27-inch QHD QD-OLED with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, and wide gamut color with an opening price of just $350.
Our experts review your astonishing PC builds and setups in Rig Rundown — from wall-mounted setups to a system packed inside of a 1:6 scale RC car
We go through user-submitted PC builds and crown a winner in the inaugural Tom's Hardware Premium Rig Rundown results
News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models
Many major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine's crawler from archiving their pages, despite using the tool for their reporting. Their primary concern is that AI tech companies are breaking fair use and training their models on publicly available data.
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself — Meta insiders claim 3D photoreal animated Zuck will be able to engage with employees on his behalf
The very top job at Meta may periodically be delegated to an AI replica of Mark Zuckerberg. Will anyone notice?
Score a massive $700 off this 4K-ready Lenovo gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti, now just $1,899 — epic Legion Tower 5i pre-built ships with a 20-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD
Save a massive $700 on this Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC with an Intel Core Ultra 265F CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD, all for just $1,899.99.
Pay $1349.99 for Gigabyte's Aero X16 laptop and save $300 on this 32GB beast with RTX 5070 graphics — outstanding battery life a bonus
Gigabyte's Aero X16 packs 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a powerful Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU all for $1349.99 in this Best Buy deal.
Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language
Ancient 6 MHz PDP11 can train a neural network' says veteran dev.
Half of all US employees now use artificial intelligence at work, crossing landmark threshold for first time — Gallup data shows daily and weekly usage hitting all-time high of 28% in Q1 2026, w
50% of American adults in employment use AI at least once a year, with 28% using it daily or weekly, according to a new Gallup survey. While AI-focused companies are seeing huge disruption, 65% of those employees felt positive about its individual impact on their productivity.
China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade — $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act
Semiconductor industrial policy spending in China totaled around $142 billion between 2014 and 2023, roughly 3.6 times higher than the $39 billion committed in the United States over the same period.
FAA approves military use of drone-killing laser weapons in US airspace — decision comes after it was decided ‘systems do not present an increased risk to the flying public’
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to give carte blanche approval to the military's use of laser weaponry to shoot down suspected errant drones in US airspace.
Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input
Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously.
Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts
Voters in Festus, MO ousted half of the city's council members following the approval of a $6 billion data center project.
New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running
Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor's individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation.
Intel's Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne — early leak points to up to 52 cores, blazing DDR5-8000 support, and massive 175W TDP
VideoCardz shares the alleged preliminary SKU list for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 400S (codenamed Nova Lake) processors.
Acer Predator GX850 SFX power supply review: Solid electrical performance with good efficiency
Solid engineering from FSP delivers reliable power in compact form, though pricing and acoustics present practical challenges.
NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over 'predatory' Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement — in-debt customers to get up to $5,000 of relief, eligible renters to be granted ownership
The company allegedly engaged in just about every kind of deceptive business practice possible, and even targeted children.
Bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel dubbed the ‘Superdome’ lowers temps by 20 degrees — $600 worth of Noctua fans arrayed in 3D-printed structure
A TechTuber has constructed a bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel as a cooling experiment. It seems to do a good job.
Approvals for Nvidia and AMD AI chip exports to China stall under government bottleneck — 20% staff turnover hobbles Bureau of Industry and Security
Staffing at the U.S. Commerce Department office that vets exports of Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators has collapsed over the past year.
Espresso Lite 15 Review: An entry-level portable monitor with a splash of color
The Lite 15 is the new entry-level portable monitor from Espresso, and it's dressed for the occasion.
Save a massive $700 on this 4K-ready HP gaming PC with a 9800X3D and RTX 5070 Ti, now just $2,499 — discounted HP Omen 35L pre-built powerhouse ships with 32GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD
Save a massive $700 on this epic HP Omen 45L gaming rig, fitted with a 9800X3D, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for just $2,499.99.
'CopprLink' destroys every eGPU standard in new test, achieves near-native-level performance with an RTX 5090 — setup requires $2,300 worth of additional hardware
An RTX 5090 plugged into this eGPU using the CopprLink standard was able to get essentially the same level of performance as the GPU directly plugged into the motherboard. The setup requires a $1,300 enclosure and a $1,000 adapter card, and it's only meant for enterprise markets, but it shows what the future of eGPUs could be for consumers.
Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data d
A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site's backup quota.
Why we spent 50+ hours retesting Intel’s Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus
Although we've known for a long time that Intel planned to refresh its Arrow Lake CPUs, the 270K Plus and 250K Plus still posted results that were difficult to believe during our review period.
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