by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71MT6)
Dell and HP are shipping many entry-level and midrange business laptops with HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding intentionally disabled, likely to avoid rising codec royalty costs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71MT7)
Get your hands on the best gaming CPU on the market, now at a discounted rate. The 9800X3D is an 8-core, 16-thread beast of a processor, conquering every game's benchmarks thanks to its 96 MB of L3 cache, while consuming less power than the competition.
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The Kingston NV3 2230 is Kingston's budget take on this form factor, offering decent all-around performance and power efficiency at a good price.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71MQZ)
Nvidia's stock price has been trending down despite its record-breaking quarter, and its CEO is complaining.
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These 16 gadgets under $50 have upgraded my tech life, and most are already on sale for Black Friday
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From electric screwdrivers to high-res webcams, these are inexpensive game-changers.
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Wall Street analysts are growing increasingly concerned about the interconnected revenue relationships of many of the top AI and tech companies and their rapidly expanding debts, financing enormous infrastructure projects. This has investors worried, and stocks are sliding as concerns are rising.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71MNK)
AMD begins hardware enablement for GFX 12.1 IP, which could point to next-generation Instinct MI400-series GPUs, or future integrated GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71MNM)
A senior Taiwanese ministry official said the U.S. will not put tariffs on its chip exports in exchange for helping Washington, D.C., copy its science park model for tech companies.
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Huawei's in-house Ascend processors and their surrounding supplier network are being positioned as the foundation of a national effort to build an independent, fully domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
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This 169.99 Intel Arc B570 is simply the best value graphics card you can buy right now for gaming at 1080p, with a free 60 game thrown in.
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Microsoft opens Full Screen Experience to all Windows gaming handhelds
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First it was AWS. Then Azure went down - and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71MNS)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan dismisses speculation that former TSMC executive Wei-Jen Lo could have brought advanced TSMC process secrets to Intel.
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Save 50% on this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits
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AOC shows off its fresh QD-OLED monitor lineup
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71M81)
Elon Musk argues that terawatt-scale AI computing will soon be impossible to power and cool on Earth and must move to orbit. But despite abundant solar energy and radiative cooling in GEO, launch mass, radiation-hardening, and networking challenges make such space-based data center only a distant dream.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#71M4D)
Get 34 inches of QD-OLED gaming goodness now priced below $500
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71M19)
Chromebook buyers are getting a new exclusive GeForce Now subscription with no ads and priority access to Nvidia's cloud servers. The subscription comes with new Chromebooks starting November 20th, for free for a year.
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Microsoft has revealed its next major in-house server processor, the Azure Cobalt 200, a 132-core Arm-based CPU built on TSMC's 3nm process.
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The Dutch government has suspended its emergency order to oversee chipmaker Nexperia, returning operational control to Chinese parent company Wingtech.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71KYT)
Nvidia's latest hotfix will help you reclaim FPS lost taken by a buggy Windows update.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#71KYV)
With strong all-around performance, extensive overclocking features, and a steep price cut, the Core Ultra 9 285K is one of the best-value high-end CPUs available right now.
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MSI's X870I Edge Ti Evo Wifi is a premium Mini-ITX board, and the only one from this generation with three M.2 sockets. It comes handsomely equipped, but the $449 price is tough to swallow.
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The raid is purportedly tied to Qualcomm's allegations of unfair market practices by Arm in several jurisdictions.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71KW5)
Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI/HPC platform is now slated for a Q3 2026 launch, which will be instrumental for the company's $0.5 trillion GPU sales target despite losing the Chinese market.
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This OC'd RX 9070 XT graphics card kicks off Amazon's Black Friday deal with a record-low price.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71KW7)
Yttrium prices are surging as the trade war between China and the U.S. have caused supply to dry up.
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A cool $50 below the competition. PNY's RTX 5070 Ti OC hits an all-time $699 low price in the Black Friday sales.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71KSP)
DJI reportedly invests in 3D printer maker Elegoo.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#71KSQ)
Head over to Amazon for hot deals on TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 gear, including the Deco BE63 mesh router and the BE3600 travel router
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71KHT)
Nvidia posts another record-breaking quarter with $57 billion in revenue, driven by surging demand for data-center GPUs. It now forecasts $65 billion next quarter and projects $0.5 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin sales by the end of 2026.
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Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia have struck a joint partnership to run the Claude AI on Microsoft's Azure servers using Nvidia hardware. Anthropic will invest $30 billion in the move, as well as a guarantee to provide an additional gigawatt of compute performance. This deal could help all companies meet their existing commitments, but it adds extra inflation to the ballooning AI bubble.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#71K7R)
The first 6K display with full Thunderbolt 5 support.
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Nvidia's modular PCIe connector, used in some of its Blackwell-based graphics cards, is available individually.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71K44)
Microsoft is preventing hilarity from ensuing by adding a new Digital Signage Mode in Windows 11. This recovery feature will force a BSOD or any error pop-up to disappear within 15 seconds so that the public can't enjoy the mundanity of life. Digital Signage Mode is different from the existing Kiosk mode for interactive screens.
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The laptop has both an RTX 5070 graphics card and Ryzen 9 9955HX processor stuffed into its gamified chassis, and the Asus ROG Strix G16 is now $1699.99 at Amazon while stocks last.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71K1B)
Microsoft just released agentic AI features to Windows 11 Insiders, but also warned them of the risks of using them on their PC.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#71K02)
Noctua is introducing all-black Chromax variants of the NH-D15 G2 cooler along with the NF-A14x25r G2 and NF-A14x25 G2 140mm PWM fans
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71K03)
A worsening commodity DRAM shortage could be amplified by Nvidia's huge LPDDR5X demand and push memory prices even higher as server RDIMMs are poised to get 2X more expensive in 2026, according to Counterpoint Research.
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Grab this Corsair K70 Pro RGB full-size mechanical gaming keyboard for half the usual price, thanks to Black Friday.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71JXW)
Cloudflare reports that a feature file had unexpectedly doubled in size due to an error, leading its Bot Management system to fail.
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Deep dive explains how Quake targeted DOS, Windows 95, and TCP/IP simultaneously
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The best Black Friday PC hardware sales, live round-the-clock coverage of all the best deals.
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We're rounding up the best RAM deals from retailers across the U.S.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71JVW)
Apple's first large-scale use of metal 3D printing lets it mass-produce titanium Apple Watch and iPhone components while halving raw material consumption.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71JCB)
AMD's Jack Huynh releases a teaser trailer on X, announcing December 10th as the premiere date for FSR Redstone.
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Cloudflare has confirmed that a bug in one of its core services caused a major outage on Tuesday, taking large portions of the internet offline.
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Newegg is selling MSI's GeForce RTX 5070 12G Ventus 2X OC for $479.99 after rebates.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71J94)
Wei-Jen Lo, a longtime TSMC leader who quietly reappeared at Intel only months after retiring, is now reported to have left with extensive N2, A16, A14, and post-A14 process documents, triggering scrutiny over his sudden move and a TSMC investigation into possible stealing of trade secrets.
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Taiwan has formally committed over NT$100 billion (US$3.2 billion) to a new national initiative to turn the island into a global hub for artificial intelligence.
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