Tech
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TIL the CIA hid a movie camera in a Xerox machine — and trained a repairman to steal film right under KGB noses
The audacious story of the secret service, the Soviets, and the Xerox photocopier that caught on fire.
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Laura Loomer’s Reversal on Ukraine Stirs Up the MAGA Civil War
Donald Trump’s base has been increasingly spilt. Laura Loomer’s sudden embrace of Ukraine has only widened that divide.
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Jaguar makes epic 2100-kilometre journey across the Amazon | New Scientist
A jaguar that has been dubbed Gaspar traversed 2100 kilometres of the Amazon, crossing farms and roads. But why he set off on this mission is unclear
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‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips
Model training still needs flagship chips, but could inference get away with lighter chips?
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face
OpenAI's incident report describes models burning inference compute to steal answers.
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Brave1 and the open source future of war
We take a look inside Ukraine’s real-time military tech pipeline
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Laptops
Laptop reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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'There's a trend towards turning previously free AI features into paid ones' — is Windows 11 moving towards a subscription model? I fear that it is, and AI agents will be to blame
My biggest Windows 11 fear is AI agents — and that they could be a Trojan Horse for subscription fees in Microsoft's OS.
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Why Europe cannot let the AI sovereignty ship sail
Now is Europe's time to act
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Macbooks
Macbook reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Shadow AI is actually the symptom: here's how to treat the cause
Shadow AI thrives when workplace policies, tools and training fail
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Mystery reviewer 'finds' Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces — Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though prototype warts are still quite visible
The machine displays potential, but it definitely needs to be in the oven a good while longer.
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An island has been waging war on rats. They think they've finally won | New Scientist
Rats are a scourge on island wildlife all over the world. But an island off the coast of Ireland is showing how to successfully gain the upper hand
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Infobip is helping TGR Haas to fund F1 car development through an entirely new kind of fan engagement
RaceMate is an AI companion designed to answer all your questions about TGR Haas, the drivers, and the races.
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AMD's Helios beats Nvidia on memory at rack level and on compute — only if you count it at the GPU level
A GPU-level win that does not scale linearly
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'They will renew your subscription even if you turn off the auto-renewal' — Which VPN has the most price complaints on the Play Store?
We analyzed almost 30,000 Android VPN reviews to reveal the hidden cost of major VPNs
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College students face strict campus Wi-Fi blocks, but people are getting round it with this tool
Get back-to-school ready with this student essential
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RAM
RAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Motherboard VRM thermal testing – budget vs. high-end boards, does it really matter?
You don’t have to buy a high-end motherboard to get the most out of your processor
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"That’s why Dyson products often look unusual; they’re built around their function" — I spoke to Jake Dyson about the company's unique designs, and why it's not afraid to break the mold
Dyson's Chief Engineer explains how form follows function, and why the company never feels tied to recognizable designs
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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The Neo Geo AES+ retro console is now available to pre-order starting from $249 — game cartridges cost $90 each; the Ultimate Edition with all games and accessories will run you $1,000
How far are you willing to go for physical media?
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"I look a bit like a Great White Shark who's enjoying his last hours as a human" — I compared the iPhone Air and iPhone 7 to see how far iPhone photography has come and the results speak for themselves
I took the iPhone 7 and iPhone Air on a photo walk to see how far Apple's photography hardware has come in 10 years.
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Top G2A executive sides with gamers to 'buy games in the format that suits them best', as Sony and Rockstar abandon game disks
Game discs on PlayStation will be gone starting in 2028, and the chief business officer of G2A, a digital game key site, isn't siding with Sony's choice.
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Looking forward to Songs of the Past? While we wait for the expansion, take our quiz to find out which character you are from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Which character from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are you? Let's find out.
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Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs | New Scientist
After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong enough to broil life on land
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Matcha is under threat from climate change – can genomics save it? | New Scientist
Climate change is affecting the yields and flavour of the traditional Japanese tea matcha, but studying its seedlings' genetic tolerance for heat could future-proof the crop
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Data centers, power and how to be a winner in the AI Boom
The energy sector's AI boom amidst current grid challenges
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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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Console Gaming
Discover more about Console Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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After pouring 25 hours into Square Enix’s Zelda-like 2D action adventure, I’m left with incredibly mixed emotions — here’s why
I wanted to love The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, but it didn't quite live up to my high expectations.
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Motherboards
Motherboard reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console
Microsoft has promised a full post-incident review.
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DDR5
DDR5 reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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"Vibe-coding a landing page from scratch is completely pointless": How will vibe coding really impact the future of website building?
Is vibe-coding really the answer to all your website-building needs?
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Apple launches official program for leasing Macs as AI price crunch bites — 24- and 36-month leasing options provided by Klarna
Mac leases will start at $24.99 per month
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One year into the AI-induced RAM apocalypse — how much does memory actually cost, and is there hope for a more affordable future?
A year that feels like a lifetime
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A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
A couple of enterprising sound designers have taken on the challenge of producing more pleasant beeps for the humble microwave.
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Storage
Storage reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Xbox
Xbox reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Is the Electric Trike the Next Big Thing in Shared Micromobility?
Veo is launching accessibility-focused electric tricycles in Denver, with plans to put its e-trikes on the streets nationwide.
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Tech Industry
Discover more about Tech Industry with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Leaked Radeon RX 9050 hints at the return of 4GB VRAM GPUs in 2026 — new budget RDNA 4 card also spotted in 8GB config with half the power of an RX 9060
It would be the first and only current-gen 4GB GPU.
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Testing old drives as external storage to avoid price hikes — hard drive, SATA SSD, and NVMe in enclosures up to 80 Gbps, tested
For as little as $10 (or even less), you can use an old drive as external storage, but will that dusty drive deliver the speed you need?
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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second
He definitely thought he could, but not whether he should.
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Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
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16 products keeping my kids entertained whilst I work from home this summer – and half are less than £20
My shopping list for a calmer work environment during the summer holidays
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‘They’re Fucking a Lot of People’: 7-OH Users Brace for DEA Ban
The opioid-like compound, which is found in kratom, can cause brutal withdrawal symptoms and will soon be a controlled substance. Some users tell WIRED it has relieved their pain and anxiety.