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Newegg's combo deal pairs the gaming-centric Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard, and Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $609.99, plus a free 240mm AIO-an affordable way into AM5 amid the RAMpocalypse.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77SKK)
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.
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Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island's residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.
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Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77SHA)
id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on the disc for free.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#77SHB)
Get an Intel Core Ultra 9 285 PC with an RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU for just $1,849.
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A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77SHD)
Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks' available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementation.
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Appendix A of the 24-page document rewrites the federal Critical and Emerging Technologies list for the first time since February 2024.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77SFF)
A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
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The DC Circuit reversed one of four findings, ruling that a lower court upheld a fully redacted justification without reading the classified record behind it.
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Step into 3D printing with Bambu Lab's P1S and AMS combo bundle for $499. Back on sale at its lowest-ever price point.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77RV1)
Nova Lake desktop CPUs look to be the exclusive recipient of bLLC, Intel's answer to AMD's X3D, as the company looks to debut bLLC on mobile with Razor Lake-HX, and possibly Razor Lake-AX. As such, the Razor Lake family is also rumored to be manufactured on TSCM's N2X process node.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77RV2)
AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.
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Asus delivers another flagship OLED with the ROG Swift PG32UCWM. It pulls out all the stops with a 32-inch Tandem RGB Stripe panel, 4K resolution, 240 Hz with 480 Hz/FHD dual mode, HDR10, Dolby Vision, Adaptive-Sync and wide gamut color.
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Amid the memory crunch, Adata unleashes its new XPG Novakey RGB memory kit series. But can the new lineup convince consumers to pick it up?
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How much motherboard is too much? We look at what you actually get as prices climb - from VRMs and connectivity to premium features and diminishing returns.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#77RRG)
Overclocker 1usmus has released a new update for their Hydra overclocking tool that features VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77RRH)
China could become almost self-sufficient in high-end AI accelerators in 2026 as Chinese IHVs led by Huawei expected to supply 90% of AI processors used domestically.
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One man's trash is another's treasure, and GameStop just paid out over $10,000 for hundreds of broken consoles.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77RRK)
A U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines' treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77RRM)
A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.
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Save $167 on an 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD at Best Buy in their 60th Anniversary sales event.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#77RP9)
Get $1,350 off this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i with RTX 5080.
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404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.
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China's Ministry of State Security has told some state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their machines.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77RPC)
Othisis, an Indian startup that's only been in business for two years, has demonstrated a fully 3D-printed, reusable rocket engine.
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CMP Unlocker enables previously disabled VRAM on Nvidia's five-year-old CMP 170HX cryptocurrency mining graphics card.
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A Redditor claims that Best Buy repaired' a blue screen-afflicted under-warranty laptop by simply removing one of its two SODIMMs, and when it passed tests simply sent it back with half the memory installed.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77R5E)
Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini-PCs - maker requests takedown of report on the situation
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Alibaba has agreed to sell its game development unit, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital, according to an internal staff memo.
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There's light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS after a judge has cleared the way for it to retrieve archival data and programming from Iron Mountain.
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Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
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PJM Interconnection has asked federal regulators to approve rules that would cut power to new data centers ahead of households during supply shortages.
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What's it like to build a PC with some of the most expensive components on the market? Asus sent us its ROG 20th anniversary components so we could find out for ourselves.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77QY9)
Intel's best Battlemage GPU is now even more expensive due to its large 32GB memory pool that's very useful for AI workloads.
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A reverse engineering and retro gaming enthusiast has finally succeeded in their goal of decompiling GoldenEye 007, the monumental James Bond adventure shooter from Rare.
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Cherokee Nation, with more than 475,000 citizens, has banned hyperscale data center development on its tribally owned and trust lands.
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A new CIC forecast projects that the data center optical interconnect market will grow from $13.7 billion in 2024 to $144.4 billion by 2030, with silicon photonics accounting for 63.7% of revenue.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77QYD)
ViewSonic nailed the design with the VG1457, but should have put some more effort into sourcing higher quality display panels.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77QYE)
PC Partner warns that graphics card prices will rise further in H2 2026 as memory costs climb and supplies tighten and entry-level boards will gain the most. This is how they gain money, says Jon Peddie.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#77QYF)
Get an RTX 5090 Alienware gaming PC for less than the standalone cost of the GPU.
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Save $60 on Corsair's impressive Vanguard 96 RGB mechanical gaming keyboard at Best Buy.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77QWK)
This vendor can upgrade your RTX 2080 Ti to feature 22GB of VRAM for less than $300, converting it into an AI powerhouse without breaking the bank.
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A PC retailer in Wan Chai's Computer Zone 298 mall in Hong Kong, has accused two of its senior employees of stealing company stock for roughly a year and reselling it.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#77QWN)
If you want to see the bleeding edge of 3D printing tech, you go to FormNext in Frankfurt, Germany. If you want to see the latest in consumer electronics, you go to CES in Las Vegas. If you want to see what it's like to microwave your own head, you go to Open Sauce in San Mateo, California.
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Tear down of a so-called air conditioner from Epicool revealed 'a simple PC fan combined with a small heating element.'
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77QG2)
If you have a bunch of old CDs or DVDs lying around and want something quick and simple to access them, this external drive can get the job done for you for less than $30 while offering extra features that would make it useful in your day-to-day PC usage.
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Dell has created a humorous AI-era update to its iconic early-2000s 'Dude, you're getting a Dell' series of commercials.
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The open-source codec Meta released in 2022 converts a waveform into discrete tokens that a matching decoder turns back into audio.
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