Hardware
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Nvidia custom 'NVHBM' promises 30% higher bandwidth, 15% lower power than commodity HBM4e — custom base die and PHY will be available to NVLink Fusion partners
Not a replacement for commodity HBM, though.
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Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’
It seems that the city is washing its hands off the case and passing the burden on the county.
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Xbox marks 25 years with eye-catching translucent green PC accessories — Razer mouse, keyboard, and earbuds available to pre-order now
Razer PC peripherals, mobile controllers, and a bag for the ROG Xbox Ally make up the licensed lineup.
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Xbox
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Crypto bro faces 280 years in prison for defrauding investors with promises of an 'AI supercomputer' for mining — jury convicts businessman of running $24-million Ponzi scheme, claimed up to 30% APR and a 100% money-back guarantee
He told investors that he’s using an AI supercomputer to generate returns of up to 15% to 30% annually.
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Cybersecurity
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Cryptocurrency
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US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more — FBI moves forward with domain seizures
The group has apparently been operating since 2018.
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Enthusiast turns a Lenovo Yoga laptop, an M.2 slot, and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT into 'the world's stupidest' desktop for local AI chatbots — M.2 franken-rig crippled by laptop DRAM swap
Predictably, they ended up regretting their life decisions, but it was seemingly a fun ride.
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Data Centers
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Crucial SSD owner offered $200 refund for 4TB drive now selling for over $500 — company finally caves to warranty demands after protracted back-and-forth
Customer rejects Micron’s lowball SSD refund.
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Video Games
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External SSDs
External SSD reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Maker and STEM
How to make the most of Maker and STEM projects, with expert advice and guidance from the writers at Tom's Hardware.
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Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content — developer reverse engineers GUID embedding
Server-issued GUID watermark gets applied to all images generated via Paint or Photos AI features, even those that are made locally on Copilot+ PCs.
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Nintendo
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Bill Gates calls for some jobs to be ‘Human Reserved,’ suggests taxing AI tokens and robots — billionaire says that ‘AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history’
The billionaire compared 'Human Reserved' jobs to nature preserves, which need protection and conservation.
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$50k worth of retro Nintendo NES games stolen in devastating home robbery
Thieves broke into a home in Washington and stole 850 retro NES games thought to be worth more than $50k.
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U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them
States would then need to choose if they want to solicit public feedback for permits.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker's demands — says that gameplay leaks have been ‘heartbreaking for our team’
This is probably not the “sorry” that Cyberleek expected.
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DRAM
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Retro Gaming
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Commodore unveils striking Cyberpunk 2077 version of its C64U made in partnership with CD Projekt Red — Commodore 77 special edition uses more powerful AMD Artix XC7A100T processor
'Word on the neon-soaked street is it will achieve speeds of 77 MHz.'
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OpenAI’s 700W Jalapeño ASIC outpaces 1,400W Nvidia flagship GPU — claims up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency, co-developed with Broadcom
Nvidia's Vera Rubin wasn't in the comparison.
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Hands-on with Hyte’s Y50 RGB case: Premium looks at an affordable price
Hyte’s new case includes four RGB fans for much less than its other panoramic cases.
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PC Cases
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Semiconductors
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Mini PCs
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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio
A trio of Apple announcements
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Handheld Gaming
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Apple price hikes continue as Mac mini with 16GB RAM and 256GB is now $899 — 1TB storage option adds $500 to entry-level headless system
What's worse than a major price hike? Another one exactly two months later
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Drones
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Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia breaks down Vera CPU — spatial multithreading benchmarked, agentic workloads detailed, and more
Nvidia has provided more color on its Vera CPU for agentic data centers at Hot Chips 2026, showcasing the benefits of spatial multithreading and power benefits of the LPDDR5X memory system.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 with OLED screen available October 15, pre-orders start now — standalone system for $1,299.99, or an AR bundle for $2,499.99
Bundle also includes a Pelican case and a Dbrand Killswitch.
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RAM
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Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected — US Court of Appeals halts the legal wrangling over IBM’s and Red Hat’s use of Project Monterey UNIX code
Xinuos plans to petition for a full‑bench rehearing of its case, but this kind of request has only a 0.03% success rate according to IBM’s lawyers.
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AI coder gets Doom running on a custom CPU designed by GPT-5.6 Sol — game viewport is overlaid on a pulsing schematic of the CPU in Turing Complete's sandbox environment
Similar feats involving Crysis are probably still a long way off.
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Big Tech
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Windows veteran's vibe-coded Task Manager now also runs on Mac and Linux — downloadable app is the result of a 107-page spec fed to Claude Code
Plummer found time for this project while waiting in the hospital while his son had an appendectomy.
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SpaceXAI will deploy standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok's agentic workloads — will use optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 in space with Starmind satellite
SpaceXAI becomes the second announced hyperscale customer for standalone Vera after Meta.
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Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure
The OS would have been known as Freax if one of Torvalds' co-workers hadn't made a last-minute change to the upload.
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Nvidia Jetson Orin-guided Russian AI drone killed three civilians in Ukraine, forensic teams say — first documented case of civilian deaths caused by a Russian drone using fully autonomous targeting
The unencrypted module let Ukrainian investigators read the drone's terrain maps and targeting code.
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AliExpress allegedly uses your browser's audio system to fingerprint your PC — hidden code runs even when no sound is playing
Hidden code allegedly gathers detailed device data.
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Cybersecurity
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Linux
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