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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Data centers can't operate if they can't plug in or don't have water.
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Data Centers
Discover more about Data Centers with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars
Steal process recipe, get your DRAM on the market faster.
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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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G.Skill pays out $2.4M settlement over misleading DDR4 and DDR5 speed marketing — buyers get $20 to $25 as vendor agrees to XMP and EXPO packaging warnings
Not even enough to buy 4GB of DDR4 nowadays
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Physical media nostalgia sees fundraisers flock to Blu-Ray Kickstarter — drive with 9-in-1 dock achieves 160x funding goal halfway through campaign
Early birds can put down $59 for this, with a warning it will cost $129 at retail.
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Docking Stations and Hubs
Docking Station and Hub reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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DRAM
DRAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Console modder builds working Switch 2 Joy-Cons inside original Wii Remote shells — motion-sensing controllers snap magnetically onto a Switch 2
Nintendo has yet to offer any Wii Remote support on Switch 2.
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Power Supplies
PSU reviews, news, and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Pine64 halts all Linux hardware manufacturing through at least mid-2027 due to shortages — memory crunch forces open-source maker to freeze SBCs, tablets, and phones
PineNote and PineTab2 stock is expected to run dry within three months.
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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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Drones
Discover more about Drones with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Federal judge strikes down ATF 'ghost gun' rule for 3D printed parts — says restrictions violate Fifth Amendment and historical tradition of DIY gunsmithing
Are 3D-printed guns part of the "historical tradition of personal gunsmithing"?
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Tech Industry
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Nintendo
Nintendo reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Amazon delivery drone dumps Texas woman's parcel straight into her swimming pool — viral video surfaces the same week the company announces 500-city Prime Air expansion
A Texas woman has filmed the moment an Amazon Prime delivery drone dumped her package straight into her swimming pool.
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Seasonic unveils world's first 80 Plus Ruby ATX power supply — Prime Enterprise RX-1600 delivers 1600W with up to 95.4% efficiency
The new unit is a direct relative of the Seasonic Prime TX-1600, featuring Ruby certification rather than Titanium or Platinum.
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Hacker leaks GTA VI gameplay and map to protest digital-only release — claims pre-orders are a legacy of physical game releases
The hacker wants Rockstar to stop pre-selling digital games.
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Samsung raises advanced foundry prices by up to 15% as AI demand fills its 4nm lines, report claims — Chinese customers accepting the largest hikes
4nm line at Pyeongtaek reportedly at full capacity
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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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Does a VPN bypass ISP video throttling? How to restore your connection speeds
How ISPs can slow down video traffic – and how NordVPN can speed it up again
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VPN
Discover more about VPN with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou
These data centers are popping up left and right in rural China.
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Overclocking
Discover more about Overclocking with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Qualcomm retracts select Snapdragon C power efficiency benchmarks nearly a week after publication — updated slide removes idle apps and web browsing results
The change is to "focus on the user experience" Snapdragon C delivers.
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You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403 — stripped dual-cache offering is $500 more expensive than regular version
Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.
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Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
The giveaways outnumber sales 10 to one.
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microSD Cards
microSD Card reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Routers
Router reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water'
“The suits want us to tell you to please don’t actually send your pee.”
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can't power them
Roughly 10,000 accelerators each have entered mainland China.
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Retro Gaming
Discover more about Retro Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work
Hopefully they didn't have to buy extra RAM for this.
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Phones
Phone reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Data Centers
Discover more about Data Centers with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Tech Industry
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Comcast turns Xfinity routers into home motion detectors — free Wi-Fi sensing feature tracks RF interference with zero extra hardware required
Wi-Fi Motion is part of Wi-Fi Shield, which is a subset of Comcast's new Xfinity Shield service
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Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for 'obscure' Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github
'HP never shipped a working macOS driver' for this model, says the dev.
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MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested
Which microSD card brands and models are worth your money?
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Video Games
Discover more about Video Games with insights from 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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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell
Nice software you have there; shame if anyone was to QCRACK it
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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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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip game-boosting X3D cache rival for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims — new rumor says Razor Lake family reportedly uses TSMC's N2X node
bLLC might remain exclusive to desktop for Nova Lake family.