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by Zhiye Liu on (#78A8A)
AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 processors with six Zen 3 and Zen 4 cores, respectively.
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by Mark Tyson on (#78A61)
The first Apple A20 Geekbench 6 benchmark results are starting to pop up online and the single-core score is very impressive.
by Ben Stockton on (#78A3F)
Grab this budget-friendly 3D printer from Elegoo, the Centauri Carbon 2 Combo, for $399, and pay just $1 extra for 1KG of filament.
by Mark Tyson on (#78A3G)
The ringleader of a cybercrime gang, which reportedly formed after meetups in Minecraft online, has plead guilty to a racketeering charge and now faces up to 20 years in jail.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78A0A)
Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.
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by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal on (#78A0B)
Libernovo's Omni Pro is a dynamic, ergonomic gaming chair with motorized lumbar support and a ventilation fan that works surprisingly well.
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by Mark Tyson on (#78A0C)
Using an 'age of agents' Linux distro a 'MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support.'
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#789XV)
Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#789XW)
Pacific Quartz gets its high-purity quartz qualified for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing.
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by Etiido Uko on (#789XX)
ABF substrates underpin today's most advanced AI chips, but soaring demand and expanding accelerator packages are creating new supply and technical bottlenecks that the industry is currently racing to resolve
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#789XY)
TecLab's experiment puts the humble 8-pin connector to an extreme test, with the modified RTX 5090 pulling more than 120A while avoiding the newer 12V-2x6 design altogether.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#789XZ)
ASML, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC back development of 6*12-inch to build large processors using High-NA EUV lithography systems without stitching.
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by Mark Tyson on (#789Y0)
There's a new vibe-coded clone of the Windows 3.1 Program Manager that runs on modern Windows 11 or macOS systems.
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by Ben Stockton on (#789V6)
This MSI gaming laptop is fit for 1080p gaming, thanks to an RTX 5060, with $250 off knocking the price down to just $1049.99.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#789V7)
Valve starts enforcing Australian age verification law, but its privacy-minded choice of bank card as the only verification method is causing issues with many consumers.
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by Mark Tyson on (#789V8)
A self-taught electronics tinkerer called Mike recently shared details of his retro-computing vacuum tube computer project.
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by Andrew E. Freedman on (#789CG)
Apple's new A20 Pro SOC will power the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo as its first 2 nm smartphone chip.
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by Zhiye Liu on (#7899Q)
Scalpers have started selling preorders of the Nintendo Switch 2 The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition on eBay, starting at $700.
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by Jake Roach on (#7899R)
Hypertune is an automated overclocking tool built on top of Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK and built in collaboration with engineers at Intel.
by Ben Stockton on (#7896E)
Modular laptop maker Framework is dropping some of its memory pricing, including for some already-shipped orders, in a piece of good news for consumers.
by Zhiye Liu on (#7896F)
Microsoft appears to be using dynamic pricing to push select users to commit to Xbox Game Pass.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7896G)
OpenAI deepens chip cooperation with Samsung, possibly prepares to Double source AI ASICs from two foundries in a bid to get more in-house silicon to its data centers.
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by Sponsored on (#7893W)
Autodesk is offering a 40% discount on its Media and Entertainment Collection for a limited time.
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by Shane Downing on (#7893X)
The Goodram PX700 matches good all-around performance with high power-efficiency in a cool-running package. It performs mostly like a premium drive, although pricing remains a concern.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7893Y)
OpenAI announced that a team using one of its internal frontier models has solved the Navier-Stokes problem. However, the announcement has been mired in controversy.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#7891D)
LG has strongly denied recent security and privacy concerns raised regarding its smart TVs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7891E)
Nintendo is releasing its first-ever limited-edition Switch 2 to commemorate Zelda's 40th anniversary and it will cost $520. It does not come with Ocarina of Time, but you can purchase a similarly-themed Pro Controller for $100.
by Jon Martindale on (#7891F)
OpenAI has made bold claims with its new GPT-6 Astra AI model, and it's certainly capable, but benchmarks suggest it has many of the usual weaknesses alongside the strengths, while cost and accessibility are still the biggest factors in widespread usage.
by Ben Stockton on (#7891G)
Save 10% on this 4TB Crucial T705 SSD, the cheapest Gen 5 4TB SSD on the market by some distance at the moment, now just $502.51.
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by E. Fylladitakis on (#7891H)
Phanteks' mainstream ATX 3.1 line, with Japanese capacitors, an 8-year warranty, and street pricing under $90, but with a 450W cap on its 12V-2x6 connector.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7891J)
A modder has recreated the never-released RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM using GDDR6 chips instead of the GDDR6X the retail 3070 Ti actually shipped with.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#788Z4)
An anonymous security researcher has reconstructed the source code of the infamous Stuxnet worm, which was built to subtly interfere with Iranian uranium enrichment during the Bush and Obama administrations.
by Mark Tyson on (#788Z5)
Patagonia, a region of Argentina with 17,300 glaciers has the potential to turn into a data center hotspot.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#788Z6)
Anthropic AI safety researcher has warned there's a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans.
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TSMC to start using High-NA EUV lithography in 2030 — A10 or A11 technology prime candidates for use
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#788AP)
TSMC discloses plans to use High-NA EUV lithography in 2030, 6*12-inch photomasks with new scanners in 2033.
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by Jake Roach on (#788AQ)
Intel is reportedly set to raise CPU prices by 10%, following two other price increases, as it prepares for a major product launch in March 2027.
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by Jeffrey Kampman on (#7887W)
Following the release of Qwen 3.8 27B, we put our trusty hardware to the test to see which hardware might be best suited for running this open-weight AI model.
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by Mark Tyson on (#7887X)
A Super Smash Bros Melee decompilation project hit its key long-standing goal a few hours ago.
by Etiido Uko on (#7887Y)
Sony Japan has introduced a customer-harassment policy as anger continues over PlayStation's plan to phase out physical game discs by 2028.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7885H)
Performance for the mod remains untested but just the sheer utility of DLSS Unlocked easily puts it at the top of the RTX GPUs mod list. It combines OptiScaler_DLSSNR with DLSS Enabled to bring neural rendering and multi-frame gen to all RTX GPUs.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7885J)
NEC reportedly quits development of quantum computers, but plans to explore practical applications for such systems.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7885K)
Vintage Emulator Studio brings iconic vintage synths and samplers to life - MAME-powered component-level emulation should offer exceedingly accurate sound
by Etiido Uko on (#7885M)
Hackers claiming to be white hats drained about $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid Network's federation wallet, promising to return the funds after the platform fixes the underlying bug
by Mark Tyson on (#7885N)
Scientists mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly for the first time. Days later the full MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome was being trained to play Doom and Mario 64.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#7885P)
Save over $400 on this DDR5 gaming PC with RTX 5060 and Core i7-14700F.
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by Ben Stockton on (#7885Q)
These DDR5 32GB memory kits are the cheapest you'll find on sale right now, starting at $389.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7885R)
Thailand asks datacenter operators to suspend buildouts until legal framework is complete - new legislation is supposed to create "airtight" requirements for large-scale datacenters
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7883J)
Small-form-factor, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 - bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM work
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by Mark Tyson on (#7883K)
A computing enthusiast found a fat stack of DDR4 RAM sticks that might be worth $10,000 in their garage.
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by Etiido Uko on (#7883M)
Belgian authorities have arrested a former BelGaN researcher on suspicion of industrial espionage, alleging that proprietary gallium nitride semiconductor technology was transferred to a Chinese rival as the Belgian chipmaker headed toward bankruptcy.