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Updated 2026-06-03 14:45
Dead RTX 5090 with a cracked PCB gets urgent surgery from repair wizard — tech casually reballs the core, replaces a memory chip twice, and runs more wires across its traces than the NSA
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
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Tony from Northwest Repairs, a GPU technician, has successfully repaired an RTX 5090 that had come in with a cracked PCB. Following a reball of the GPU's core, memory chips and multiple jumper wires being run, this was one special resurrection.
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The Best SSD for the PS5 gets a massive price cut — WD Black SN850X SSD is $179 for 2TB model, or get 4TB for $383 for Prime Day
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editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar)
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Compatible with both desktops, laptops, and PlayStation 5.
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Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category — card hits 2,202 MHz, takes top six Fire Strike scores
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TrashBench dominates 3D Mark Fire Strike GTX 1060 with i5-12600KF world records using a DIY cooler.
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Best Amazon Prime Day Hard Drive deals 2025 — internal and external HDD deals from WD, Seagate, and Toshiba
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palcorn@outlook.com (Paul Alcorn)
on (#6YF0N)
These are the best HDD deals, guaranteed to expand your PC's storage without emptying your wallet.
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Activision takes Call of Duty: WWII offline after hackers apparently disrupted the game with RCE exploits — malicious code wreaks havoc on PC gamers as bad actors take complete control of your c
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YEZB)
Call of Duty: WWII has been taken over by hackers likely running RCE exploits to display all sorts of wild things. Activision has taken down the game in order to fix issues, but damage has already been done.
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AMD drops Ryzen 9000 CPUs to record low pricing — Ryzen 9 9950X gets $215 off, Ryzen 5 9600X drops to $165
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
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AMD is offering deep discounts for the 9950X and the 9600X.
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FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse
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A new flash storage drive looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the real world.
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Nvidia's first desktop PC chip lands this month — Asus leads with Ascend GX10 Grace Blackwell desktop platform
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
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Asus first with Ascend GX10 Nvidia Grace Blackwell desktop platform launch, coming later this month
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Nintendo Switch 2 prices might climb due to tariff changes — US hikes Vietnam tariffs to 20%, up from 10% when the console launched
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YEWH)
The US-Vietnam trade deal sets tariffs on Vietnamese goods at 20%, adding upwards pressure on the retail price of Switch 2 consoles.
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Gigabyte M28U 28-inch 4K gaming monitor gets a $270 discount and drops to an all-time low $329.99, but the sale ends in a few hours
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YEPC)
The Gigabyte M28U is on sale for a limited time, offering a massive $270 discount.
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UK Royal Navy builds 'esports suite' loaded with gaming PCs onboard its newest warship — eight high-powered PC battle stations added to war room
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The UK Royal Navy and British Esports Federation have collaborated on a "landmark" esports suite onboard the HMS Prince of Wales. The warship's esports facilities include eight Alienware computers, a console station, and enough LEDs to make a college dorm room blush.
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New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
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Xfinity's new Wi-Fi Motion feature can detect movements in your home and share that data with you, not only by selling it to advertisers but also with government agencies without warrants.
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Super fast Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSDs are over 25% off at Amazon — PCIe 5.0 drives with speeds over 14,000 MB/s
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Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 SSDs are currently available on Amazon with discounts of up to 26% off.
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Starlink-powered drone narco-sub intercepted by Colombian Navy — boat was converted into a drone for uncrewed smuggling
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YEMA)
The Colombian Navy intercepted a low-profile boat used by drug cartels for its smuggling activities, which is being tested to run remotely via Starlink.
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MIT team creates chip-based 3D printer the size of a coin, cures resin using only light — handheld 3D printing tech enabled by silicon photonics
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MIT researchers have engineered a chip-based 3D printer that can create complex, programmable shapes out of resin in seconds. The tech utilizes silicon photonics and will eventually be iterated into a model that can fabricate full volumetric prints.
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Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from dormant Satoshi-era wallet
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YEJP)
An OG Bitcoin investor has moved his stash of 80,000 BTC in an unprecedented transaction worth over $8 billion.
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Amazon Prime Day Best PC Case Deals 2025 — deals on Fractal, Lian Li, Corsair, and other cases
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We've gathered the top PC case deals for housing your hardware.
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US reportedly plans to curb sales of AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand to prevent smuggling to China
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YEHF)
The U.S. government is drafting export rules to require licenses for shipping Nvidia's advanced AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to block possible re-exports to China.
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TSMC swats down claims it is delaying its Japan chipmaking plant to prioritize Arizona plants to avoid US tariffs — TSMC says US investments won't impact other regions
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YEHG)
TSMC is reportedly slowing work on its second Japanese fab to accelerate buildout in Arizona in anticipation of possible U.S. tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, though the company maintains that its expanded American investments will not affect its projects in Japan and Germany.
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Laser-engraved ceramic storage device that stores data for 5,000 years targets astounding 100 petabytes per rack by 2030 — 10X performance boost and 100,000 petabytes per rack also on Cerbayte's
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Cerabyte's ambitious plans target 100PB per rack by 2030, rocketing to 100,000PB per rack by 2045.
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Grab a Crucial X10 portable SSD with a 30% discount — savings up to $182, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB models all on sale
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During this Prime Day sale, Amazon offers competitive prices on Crucial's newest X10 portable SSD.
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Samsung Odyssey G3 27-inch gaming monitor drops to all-time low $129.99 — $100 discount for a limited time on Amazon
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YE87)
Samsung drops the price of its value gaming monitor by $100, giving you a 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for less than $150.
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Save $350 on Apple's MacBook Air M1 13.3-inch laptop — discount lands within $20 of all-time low price
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Apple's MacBook Air, powered by the M1 processor, is now available for $649, a $350 savings.
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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi gaming console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4-inch square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YE56)
GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable than it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout.
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Bambu Lab Introduces free software to manage an unlimited number of 3D printers simultaneously — cloud-free LAN Mode Print Farm Manager program simplifies mass 3D printing
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stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi)
on (#6YE57)
Bambu Lab introduces cloud-free farm management tool.
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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources
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China-tech industry sources allege that 'unresolved hardware challenges,' will mean Optimus design changes.
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DDR4 prices are now so high that vendors have decided to start making it again — manufacturers want a slice now that it's more expensive than DDR5
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YE2R)
A few smaller manufacturers are pushing back their plans to discontinue DDR4 production because of surging prices in the global market.
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New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YE2S)
Benchmark results for AMD's 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9980X show record-breaking multi-threaded performance, surpassing even the 96-core Threadripper Pro, but relatively modest single-threaded scores.
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The best Fourth of July 2025 deals — explosive deals on gaming GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
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The best 4th of July deals spotted so far for the holiday weekend
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Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% more than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YE0E)
Gamers Nexus analyzed the GPU market, revealing that all GPUs sell above MSRP on average, with 8GB variants getting the smallest markups.
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This device uses a laser to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second — LiDAR-guided 'Photonmatrix' has up to 6-meter kill zone, can gauge distance, orientation, and body size in 3 milliseconds
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A popular new crowdfunding campaign promises an all-in-one portable laser-driven mosquito killing machine for $498.
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Gamer turns 2012 Honda CR-V into Need for Speed Underground controller — laptop reads throttle input using OBD and a Python library, even the steering works
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YDYC)
Forget expensive simracing setups with carbon fiber seats and podium racing wheels, this is what driving in games should look like.
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Lack of PCIe bandwidth can nerf RTX 5090 by up to 25% in content creation workloads — Puget data confirms performance hit when using older generations and fewer lanes
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Puget Systems has tested a range of PCIe configurations for its GPU in different professional applications and found that lane generation and width can make a real difference.
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Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof,
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YDX4)
Elon Musk's xAI is set to build million-GPU data center expected to draw up to 2 GW of power, prompting Musk to buy and import an entire power plant.
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Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB SSD drops to excellent all-time low $234 — DRAM-less drive gets blowout sale for early Prime Day
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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)
on (#6YDJT)
You can get the Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB for just $234, 47% off its original MSRP.
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Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YDGT)
CoreWeave deploys first Dell GB300 cluster with Switch: Up to 1.1 ExaFLOPS of AI inference performance per rack.
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Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because 'there are no customers'
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YDGV)
Sources cite that Samsung is delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab because the site lacks customers for its 4nm-class chip output.
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Newegg slashes Ryzen 7 7800X3D price, now just $369 with a free 1TB SSD — last-gen chip is a stellar deal with 95% of the gaming performance of the newer model
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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)
on (#6YDEF)
You can get a Ryzen 7 7800X3D for $370 at Newegg, replete with a free 1TB SSD.
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Dell's own Black Friday in July summer sale strips $350 off price of the Alienware's 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor, AW3225QF deal gives Prime Day a run for its money
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Dell's Prime Day rival summer sale drops the price of the 4K QD-OLED AW3225QF to just $849 - its lowest-ever
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A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX support and LLMs, amongst other things
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YDEH)
ZLUDA has expanded its team and made steady technical progress in Q1: Expands support for LLM.c, attempts to bring back PhysX 32-bit.
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Nvidia RTX 50 Series appears in Steam Hardware Survey for the first time — represents 3.69% of cards, with the RTX 5070 leading the pack
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YDBC)
Despite being out for a few months at this point, Nvidia's notorious RTX 50-series has failed to show up in Steam's internal stats - up until now, when they've finally appeared with a 3.69% share.
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Nintendo is restricting the Switch 2's USB-C port — most third-party docks and accessories won't work thanks to proprietary protocols
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editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar)
on (#6YDBD)
Nintendo is using custom communication protocols to limit compatibility with third-party docks and hubs
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Hong Kong scientists 3D printing organs for transplant patients — 3D-printed respiratory tissue combined with lab-grown mini organs in new procedure
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Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have started experimenting with 3D printed organ technology to help burn victims.
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White House lifts chip design export ban on China in exchange for rare earth materials compromise — export licences for EDA software sales no longer required
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YD8J)
The U.S. has lifted recent license requirements on exporting chip design software to China in exchange for Beijing easing rare earth export controls, enabling Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys to resume shipments to clients in the People's Republic.
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After another review-less launch, the first RTX 5050 benchmarks are here — Nvidia's budget card loses to B580 and RTX 4060, with only multi frame generation to give it a boost
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The first independent review of Nvidia's new RTX 5050 suggests it's faster than the RTX 3060, and has impressive performance with multi-frame gen, but falls behind the RTX 4060 and B580 at native.
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Nvidia's incendiary 12VHPWR connector consumes its latest victim — Chinese RTX 3060 Ti melts down despite modest power draw after ASUS shipped it with the wrong cable
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YD6V)
Wherever the 12VHPWR connector goes, it brings death with it. The latest in the series of murders is a measly RTX 3060 Ti from China.
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Recertified HDD vendor goHardDrive caught leaking thousands of customer details — company pays astonishingly low $20 bug bounty for discovery of inexplicable online database of names, addresses,
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YD6W)
Developer Michael Lynch accidentally discovered a privacy vulnerability exposing the details of thousands of customers online.
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Ford CEO latest to claim AI will wipe out half of white collar jobs in the U.S. — 'AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind'
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Ford CEO Jim Farley has joined the chorus of CEOs who believe AI could wipe out 50% of white collar jobs.
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Nvidia's Arm chips rapidly gain share in server market as AI booms — Nvidia's Arm-powered GB200 servers surge as market reaches a record $95 billion in the first quarter
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YD54)
The global server market soared 134% to $95.2 billion in Q1 2025 as hyperscalers ramped up AI infrastructure, with Arm-based Nvidia GB200 systems driving growth and annual spending projected to exceed $366 billion.
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Nintendo faces government challenge over Switch 2 nuke powers — Brazilian watchdog says end-user license agreement contains 'abusive clauses'
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stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)
on (#6YD55)
Brazilian consumer watchdog ProconSP has asked Nintendo to change its end-user license agreement in the country.
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