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Europe expands its Starlink rival to 348 satellites as IRIS² moves into implementation — €15.6 billion network will boost EU government capacity by 60%, with launches starting in 2029
66 new satellites are earmarked for defense, security, and emergency services,
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Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases
It could be a disaster if the actual space in your PC case is smaller than what its spec sheet suggests.
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x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11
The Computer History Museum made the Word 1.1a source code publicly available in 2014, now it has been ported to 64-bit Windows.
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Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks
Custom 3D printed block was glued to the GPU so water went straight to the die.
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Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint
It will form the biggest interior structure on Earth by a massive margin.
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Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data
A trick to break the walls of hidden partitions.
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Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing
Some people understand the need to go virtual for safety, but ask why public comments are affected, too.
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Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, only offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution
Crucial RMA scandal following the brand's exit from the consumer market
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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases
Company insists it remains committed to 2040 net-zero carbon emission goals
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After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism
Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.
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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows
Drone maker DJI says the “military-grade” label is a category error,
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Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU
The same computing history artifact was previously pictured alongside Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore in 1978.
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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs
Yet another closely fought battle.
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Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique
The GIF is both the code and the precise result from running the code.
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Nvidia RTX 5090 ships in bizarre 8-motherboard bundle — retailers hold GPUs hostage similar to the crypto boom
You're getting enough parts to get started on at least five simultaneous PC builds.
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Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition Review: Extra cool
The built-in fan definitely works, but so do all the holes.
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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute
Ironically, new advanced instruction sets could make for even slower commands.
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AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails
Researchers say the phages can overcome bacterial resistance
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China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix
From challenger to contender
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Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites — two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit
The proposed architecture is a different proposition from the orbital AI data centers
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Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew
From 1990s classic compilations to 2026 mega demos, this frequently updated database is now open to all Atari 16-bit fans.
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NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger — standardizing ISS chargers eliminated useless weight and reduced failure points
This story also highlights the loss of historical data as old internet sites close down.
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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months
The price reversal is caused by the unbridled demand for HBM.
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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity
What used to take engineers a few hours can now take several days.
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Introducing Bench 2.0 — a revamped benchmark analyzer, exclusively for Tom's Hardware Premium subscribers
New features, new data, hundreds of benchmarks.
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Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo' — AI tool mistakes user's home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error
“That was simultaneously the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had.”
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Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today — its Intel Xeon-powered flagship desktop took the reins from the Power Mac G5
The top model came with a pair of Xeon 5160 dual-core CPUs at 3.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, a 250GB HDD, and a 16X DL optical SuperDrive.
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Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attraction
This shows how dystopian the PC building industry has become.
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$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans
Apple has the wafers ready to go. It's just waiting on DRAM like everyone else.
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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price
No FLOPS left behind as the AI gold rush revives eight-year-old hardware
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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’
This move should prevent future electricity price increases.
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Rogue OpenAI models behind 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected
"At some point, the agents realized that maybe we could try to exploit or attack external infrastructure in order to find the answers to the test that I’m being evaluated on"
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Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $700 million installation
One way to stop a data center project is to buy the land that it will sit on.
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PC gamer vibe-codes a safeguard against RTX 5090 power connector failures — monitors per-pin power draw, shuts down system if it exceeds 9.5A for more than 15 seconds
The 35MB application forcibly shuts the machine down if power exceeds configurable limits for too long.
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Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — 'they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,' says landowner
Even AI could not predict Kentucky family rejecting the $26M buyout
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Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon
All five Xbox generations under one roof.
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$4,429 order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by Nvidia due to a 'late' price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP
A $500 price rise on a GPU already costing over $4,400 versus the original $1,999 MSRP
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Frore claims its LiquidJet can drop Nvidia Rubin GPU temperatures by 10°C — can also boost performance by 15% as hyperscalers eye using delidded GPUs in production environments
The higher the temperature, the higher the leakage power, the lower the efficiency.