Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Josef Prusa warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks — Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box'

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Josef Prusa says Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network

Bambu Labs continues to draw fire.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops

CPUs can successfully do GPU jobs, but there is one important caveat.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents

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OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents

Peter Steinberger

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence

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Taiwan declares itself

The president repeated his demand to move chip production to the U.S.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to 'adversarial countries'

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Jensen Huang slams

Are AI GPUs as powerful as nukes?

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms

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Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms

This offline Nvidia Jetson Orin NX Super 16GB-based suitcase robot is called Sparky.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus — benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applications

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The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus — benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applications

The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus just wouldn

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Get an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for around the price of just the GPU — a high-end battle station for under $4,000

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Get an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for around the price of just the GPU — a high-end battle station for under $4,000

The system costs nearly the same as buying an RTX 5090 GPU separately.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Trump calls $14 billion Taiwan arms deal a 'negotiating chip' with China after Xi said Taiwan issue could lead to 'clashes and even conflicts' — Trump says 'Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit'

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Trump calls $14 billion Taiwan arms deal a

A $14 billion arms sale includes air defense systems that Taiwan says it needs to deter a Chinese attack.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally impose these bans

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Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally impose these bans

Hill County is the first jurisdiction to pass a temporary ban on data center projects in Texas.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

Only 25% of you will even try in the next year

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Modder uses Nintendo Switch to boost aging 3D printer's speed by 90%, dropping 3DBenchy print time from 90 minutes to a mere 8 minutes and 41 seconds — enthusiast claims big quality improvements by using jailbroken quad-core console

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Modder uses Nintendo Switch to boost aging 3D printer

If you have an older printer like the Prusa MK3S here, this kind of tinkering can have dramatic results.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure

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AI data centers trigger massive

Data centers are skewing the power supply market, resulting in higher prices for everyone.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D faceoff — Battle for the fastest mid-range gaming CPU

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Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D faceoff — Battle for the fastest mid-range gaming CPU

Arrow Lake Refresh takes on AMD

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers — severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year

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AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers — severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year

Fiber preform production takes up to two years to expand.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement

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First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement

AI-assisted security research is producing exploits at a frightening rate.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

M5 Max MacBook Pro paired with RTX 5090 in an eGPU dock — runs Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100 FPS at max settings with frame generation

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M5 Max MacBook Pro paired with RTX 5090 in an eGPU dock — runs Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100 FPS at max settings with frame generation

AAA gaming with an M5 MacBook and an RTX 5090 eGPU can work as long as you

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

We tested 20 wall chargers, from cheap to expensive, to see what we would find - from 15-140W, with screens and without, to arm you with the knowledge to pick a good one out of a sea of mediocrity https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/usb/we-tested-20-wall-chargers-from-cheap-to-expensive-to-see-what-we-would-find-from-15-140w-with-screens-and-without

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Asus enters the RAM market during the largest memory shortage in history, 48GB kit lands at $880 — brand's first DDR5 kit makes the RTX 5070 Ti look like a bargain

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Asus enters the RAM market during the largest memory shortage in history, 48GB kit lands at $880 — brand

Asus has memory to spare.

Tom's Hardware 1 week ago

Apache helicopter 'loyal wingmen' support drones to be used for precision strikes, other duties — British Army's Project NYX funding money goes to four firms as effort hits new milestone

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Apache helicopter

Drones will bolster Apache ‘reconnaissance, precision strike, target acquisition and electronic warfare’ capabilities says the MoD.