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Shenzhen authorities have dismantled a counterfeit chip operation that allegedly sold reclaimed and rebranded integrated circuits as premium imports from Infineon and others.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#714CA)
The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI router integrates an NPU to make your network way smarter.
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The latest AMD Radeon graphics driver skips older GPUs for feature updates and drops functionality from last-gen flagships.
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The Rising Phoenix build is the first in a series of new builds at Tom's Hardware. Featuring an AMD 7800X3D, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, built into a gorgeous Phanteks Evolv X2, and some leather as a creative touch, this is a unique machine at under $2000.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7146D)
A group of flight sim enthusiasts bought an old Boeing 747 cockpit to convert it into the ultimate flight sim setup.
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During Tesla's Q3 2025 earnings call, the firm's CEO, Elon Musk, proposed that the cars take part in 'a giant distributed inference fleet' to tap into their incredible compute power "if they are bored."
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#71468)
President Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed a one-year tariff truce.
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Microsoft and OpenAI have finalised the wording of their working relationship for the next five years and beyond. This brings to a close the negotiations which had held up major investments from Softbank, as well as OpenAI's for-profit restructuring.
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QNAP launches TBS-h574TX all-flash NASbook with pre-installed 9.6TB or 19.2TB of enterprise E1.S storage.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71445)
Australia's police are looking to build an AI tool that would detect and interpret emoji slang online in an effort to curb crime among bad actors in hateful communities, dubbed "crimefluencers." The AI will understand the difference between harmless lingo and coded messages to help police combat violent crime.
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Western Digital Blue and Red HDDs from 2020 that use SMR technology are experiencing enough failures to prompt an investigation from WD itself. These same drives, which included SMR without telling customers, resulted in a class action lawsuit against WD in 2021.
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3D-printed gun designs evolve and can print a full-auto bullpup for $200
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#713H9)
There's another AWS outage.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#713HA)
A YouTuber's videos telling people how to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and how to install it on unsupported hardware were allegedly violating community guidelines on dangerous and illegal activities.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#713HB)
GTC announcements drive Nvidia's market capitalization by over $200 billion in one day, making the company the world's first firm to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion.
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China has launched what it claims is the world's first wind-powered undersea data center - a sealed, seawater-cooled cluster sitting 35 meters beneath the surface off the coast of Shanghai.
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Someone has explained how they used AI to slash hospital bills from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.
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Save on some of the best 3D printers in Bambu Lab's Black Friday sale
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NZXT and partner Flex are being brought to court following claims that Flex's rental program is a scam.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#713AW)
The advantages of the LOQ 15 can't outweigh the fact that Lenovo could offer more RAN and storage at this price.
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A young student was left traumatized after being ordered to the ground and handcuffed by police because an AI gun detection system erroneously called the cops on his Doritos habit.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7138F)
First images of Nvidia's Vera Rubin Superchip depicting two Rubin GPUs and a multi-chiplet Vera CPU surrounded by SOCAMM2 memory modules emerge.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#7136M)
A new modular audio hub combining sound card power and stream deck flexibility.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#7136N)
Microsoft is testing a new memory diagnostic tool that will scan for memory errors after Windows 11 hard crashes with a bug check and BSOD. The new tool is aimed at better identifying BSODs caused by memory instability.
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Announced on October 28 in Tokyo, the agreement commits both governments to securing mineral flows and accelerating the deployment of advanced nuclear power.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#712TV)
Nvidia, Oracle, and the U.S. Department of Energy will build seven ExaFLOPS-class AI supercomputers for Argonne National Laboratory - including the Oracle-built Equinox and Solstice systems with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs delivering up to 2,200 FP4 ExaFLOPS - to power next-generation AI and scientific research.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#712QZ)
OpenAI is restructuring into a public benefit corporation with Microsoft retaining a 27% stake in the new "OpenAI PBC," worth roughly $135 billion. OpenAI PBC will still be overseen by the non-profit OpenAI Inc., soon to be renamed OpenAI Foundation. Both companies are intertwined till at least 2032 with major cloud computing contracts.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#712R0)
Nvidia introduces Omniverse DSX Blueprint, a digital-twin-based reference design for gigawatt-scale AI data centers that standardizes how partners can build and optimize 'AI factories.'
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Corsair launches new PCIe 5.0 SSDs, the MP700 Pro XT and the MP700 Micro.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#712R2)
Unsuspecting YouTube viewers looking for Nvidia's GTC keynote on Tuesday might well have found themselves accidentally watching a Jensen Huang deepfake promoting a cryptocurrency scam, after YouTube promoted the video over the official stream.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#712M7)
Elon Musk's statement that Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab is more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona reflects the newer 3nm-era tools being installed there. However, this advantage has little relevance for Tesla's AI5 processor, which likely relies on SF4A FinFET technology, which gains minimal benefit from those capabilities.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#712M8)
Nvidia and HPE will build the Mission and Vision supercomputers for Los Alamos based on the Vera Rubin platform to advance national-security and open-science research using AI simulation and scientific computing.
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Newegg's combo offering pairs a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 360mm cooler for just $459
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Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association pressures the government for plentiful and green energy
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Nvidia's DGX Spark, the company's new $4,000 developer box powered by the Grace Blackwell GB10 superchip, is under fire after questions were raised about real-world performance and power draw.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#712H6)
Nvidia is hosting GTC and its keynote to reveal what's next in agentic AI, robotics, and accelerated computing.
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OpenAI has called on the US to build out more power-generating infrastructure, claiming that it is needed to help provide the backbone for the AI race the US is now in with China. With enormous infrastructure projects planned, it wants the US to build an additional 100 gigawatts of new energy capacity every year.
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The AirSense UAV drone is constructed from eco-friendly packaging boards and paper fiber.
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Save on some of the best 3D printers in Bambu Lab's Black Friday sale
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PNY launches the CS3250, a PCIe 5.0 SSD with speeds up to 14.9 GB/s at a starting price of $125.99
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The DRAM supply chain is choking, and server memory is taking the first hit, with major U.S. and Chinese hyperscalers now receiving just 70% of the server DRAM they order.
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Can SanDisk's Extreme Pro USB4 SSD compete with impressive options from Corsair and LaCie? We ran the drive through our benchmark suite to find out.
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The latest data shows that almost 90% of Windows games now run on Linux.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#712B9)
A user on Reddit shunt-modded their Zephyrus M16's RTX 4090 laptop GPU, which led to a 20% bump in performance compared to stock, while even beating RTX 5090 mobile on average. This was achieved by just stacking one resistor atop the existing one to trick the GPU into consuming way more power than it thinks it is.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#712BA)
An unfortunate user on Reddit bought a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive, only to find out that they've been scammed. Inside the enclosure was an SD card for storage, with metal blocks attached to a fake weight.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#712BB)
SK hynix introduced its AI NAND lineup - AIN D, AIN P, and AIN B - at the 2025 Global Summit, outlining a new strategy to deliver high-density, high-performance, and high-bandwidth storage tailored for AI servers and workloads.
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China's GDIIST research institute has announced the development and soon release of the BIE-1, an AI supercomputer inspired by the operation of the human brain. This neuromorphic computing tech is one of the first standalone, non-rack-based brain-based computers we've ever seen.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71297)
A CPU collector/enthusiast has taken the top off of an Intel 4004 processor and taken pictures of the chip's insides, showing the 10,000nm chip in all its glory.
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs have conducted a new study on just how many pixels the human eye can take in at certain distances, and determined it's fewer than we might think. They claim in their results that it means most humans wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 1440p and 4K on a 50-inch screen at 10 feet distance.