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Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer
A 283KB Rust module and two compiled shaders sit behind the character grid.
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Peripherals
Peripherals reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes
The software interferes with core system files.
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25 years after the death of 3dfx, the Voodoo 3 gets a Linux driver update — classic Voodoo GPUs can now boot without a PC BIOS
It's been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.
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Cybersecurity
Discover more about Cyber Security with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Linux
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US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers — agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts
Attacks on these industrial controllers could lead to sabotage of critical infrastructure.
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Case Fans
Case Fan reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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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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PC Components
PC Component reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542
Weeks before the Switch 2's $50 increase takes effect.
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Console Gaming
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GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game
The publisher wants MachineGuid identifiers, login IPs, and OneDrive contents by September 4.
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PC Building
Advice on PC building and the best PC builds around, from the expert team at Tom's Hardware.
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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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Gamer uncovers factory plastic left on RTX 3070 VRM pads after five years, causing overheating — claims removal and repasting dropped GPU hotspot temperatures by 30°C
Assembly error causes RTX 3070 to run hot.
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LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput
LG rolls-out laser direct imaging lithography machine for chip packaging and high-density PCBs.
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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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PC Components
PC Component reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' — OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury
Trump ally Judge Aileen Cannon has had the remand motion for seven weeks.
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Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2026: Progress amid turmoil
Affordable memory and storage are the only missing link.
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Monitors
Monitor reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
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SanDisk expansion cards for Xbox Series X|S now available on Amazon — alternative storage solution to Seagate, WD arrives on the market five years after the launch of the consoles
Xbox gamers now have an alternative to Seagate if they want to increase the capacity of their Series X|S consoles.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Micron commits $10 billion to new US-based Research Labs — Boise hub to target post-DRAM and NAND technologies and packaging
It is always better to work together.
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CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking
The entire validation system has been revamped to better diagnose problems and better detect CPU and GPU frequencies for extreme overlockers.
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Semiconductors
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Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout
The camera access web interface also has a no-password vulnerability.
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Sandisk's new $2,200 NAS SSD lets you fill the drive every day for five years — 7.68TB M.2 flaunts eye-popping 14,000 TBW rating
Sandisk NAS 800 SSD crosses into enterprise endurance territory
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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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Big Tech
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Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions
The company's senior management was apparently unaware that billions of dollars' worth of hardware was being sent to questionable clients.
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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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Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027
VDURA's latest flash index puts a 30TB TLC drive at $22,600 as NAND price increases settle.
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Cybersecurity
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Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap'
There are no LPU sales in China and no China-specific variant on the roadmap.
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Applications
App 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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Semiconductors
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Catastrophic GTA VI leak is a full working build — notorious hacker CyberLeek taunts Rockstar Games by spraying the word 'leek' onto a wall in-game with bullets
It's unclear how Cyberleek got their hands on the game.
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Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back
This county is hitting the brakes on data center development after more than a quarter of a century of making the most out of them.
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Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
The 5nm test chip routes signals through TSVs to the package.
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Video Games
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