Hardware
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Drones
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Overclocking
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Virtual Reality
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Cinebench world record that stood for 12 years gets toppled — OC expert scores 10.8cb in Cinebench R11.5 using an Intel Core i5 4670K at 6.3 GHz
Overclocking enthusiasts are still having fun with Haswell CPUs and DDR3 in 2026.
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Anthropic’s proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages are on the line — proposal would effectively make the Commerce Department the only agency capable of stopping an AI model
Would this be enough to keep an AI model from going out of control?
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Data Centers
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MIT engineers build soft 3D shape-sensing skin for gaming and VR — tracks 3D movement and touch with sub-half-centimeter error
Although it still works with a few fibers cut, a garment would need many more, much thinner ones.
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GPUs
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Cybersecurity
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PC Gaming
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DJI’s first battery-swapping dock gets drones recharged and back in the air in under 45 seconds — but 'Dock 4' has no FCC clearance for U.S. sale
No more half-hour recharges, ideal for safety and rescue.
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Maps
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US Army to use 3D-printed rocket motors for low-cost cruise missiles— X-Bow cuts prototype time to days after building 2,100 engines, will arm the ‘Arsenal of Freedom’
Additive manufacturing makes it easier to produce advanced solid rocket motors.
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Retro Gaming
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Game decompilation hub freezes leaderboard after AI turns progress into a hollow numbers game amid explosion of 'AI slop' — creator blames forks that use AI to ‘finish’ other teams’ projects and races to ship rough PC ports
Its creator won’t ban AI-assisted projects, saying one hobbyist can’t police what counts as slop.
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Taiwan targets illicit AI server exports to China with five-year prison terms — strict new controls follow US tariff deal and Super Micro raid
This could make it easier for prosecutors to charge AI chip smugglers.
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Semiconductors
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Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn't own to complete a task during test — rogue bot wrote a script to find accounts with public seed phrases, took funds to pay for gas
The agent even contemplated the ethics of its actions.
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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 17, 2026 — packaging roadmaps, Chinese DGX Spark rival emerges, and digging into ASML's earnings
Don't miss out on this week's stories.
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Modder finishes nine-year Xbox 360 voltage glitch mod with a $4 microcontroller, cracks the console open — tiny microcontroller dumps NAND and flashes timing files to bypass CPU cryptography
Back in my day, it took substantial dedicated hardware to pull off these shenanigans.
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GPUs
GPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Nvidia reportedly insists the RTX 5090 isn't dead despite severe shortages and removed listings at multiple retailers — flagship GPU is missing from Nvidia's store and commands $8,500 on Amazon
Hold one sec, there's a bridge salesman at the door.
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Quad 8-pin mod protects the $8,500 RTX 5090 you can’t replace from melting — modder’s custom power solution claims to fix Nvidia 16-pin GPU meltdowns
RTX 5090 production halts make protecting your GPU from meltdowns critical
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3D Printing
3D Printer reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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ASML's employee-only High-NA EUV Lego kit gets an open 810-piece fan replica — custom MOC dodges $700 eBay prices with working wafer tray and vacuum pumps
You can now get a mini-High-NA EUV in your home even if you don't work for ASML.
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Tech Industry
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Gun-rights activist unveils world's first 'AI-made' 3D-printed firearm
A gun rights activist has unveiled the world's first AI-made 3D printed firearm.
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Epic introduces an improved version of anti-cheat for Linux — strict TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot rules spark open-source pushback, but finally allow Linux gamers to play Fortnite
Are all these requirements worth it just to play a few competitive titles?
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PC Gaming
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Taiwan raising $4 billion to build industrial park in Texas to support US chipmaking supply chain — project to support countless small manufacturers crucial to TSMC, Foxconn supply chain
This would help TSMC's supply chain move into the U.S.
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Semiconductors
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Video Games
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China startup demoes prototype EUV light source — 15W of output power and 90% domestic components, still years away from viability
And will not demo one for many years to come.
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3D Printing
3D Printer reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Cooling
CPU Cooling reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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New York rep announces game ownership bill that would require consumer ownership rather than sale of licenses — would also require publishers to keep the game functional after support ends
New York joins Pennsylvania in protecting gamers.
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PlayStation
PlayStation reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Tech Industry
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Experiment shows liquid metal TIM doesn’t dry out; it turns solid — two-year electron microscope test finds gallium bonds with copper coolers, and nickel plating keeps the layer about 10 times thinner
Liquid metal’s hardened layer conducts heat about a quarter as well as the copper it replaces.
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Thai cops bust 'audacious' cross-border fiberoptic cable running to Myanmar scam compound — 350-meter, 48-core cable was supplying illegal border casino and a scam center with 6TB of data per day
Authorities found 'two ramshackle homes' using enough data to power a village
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Linux
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Jailbroken PS5s can now run local AI models at over 100+ tokens per second — fork of PS5LM goes native, hijacks the CPU, and accesses the GPU and more RAM
You can even chat with the LLM remotely from other devices.
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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives
That seemingly didn't stop the pro- and against-AI camps in the kernel from continuing to bicker, though.
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SSDs
SSD reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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