Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role

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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos —

Arizona students reject ex-Google exec

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips — Adata, TeamGroup, and others take on substantial debt to survive shortages

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Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips — Adata, TeamGroup, and others take on substantial debt to survive shortages

Revenue is at record highs, but even that isn

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Why now is the best time to jump on the OLED monitor bandwagon — breaking down new-gen panel tech and our top burn-in prevention tips

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Why now is the best time to jump on the OLED monitor bandwagon — breaking down new-gen panel tech and our top burn-in prevention tips

There’s never been a better time to hop on the OLED monitor bandwagon.

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power

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China says

The subsea facility reportedly achieves a PUE below 1.15, far below the 1.5 industry average

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Flood of duplicate vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — Linus Torvalds says private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list

New kernel documentation now formally requires AI-found bugs to be reported publicly.

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

LG UltraGear 52G930B 52-inch 5K gaming monitor review: Extreme in every respect

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LG UltraGear 52G930B 52-inch 5K gaming monitor review: Extreme in every respect

LG combines the extremes of size and resolution in its UltraGear 52G930B.

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Grab this $8.97 TP-Link Ethernet Switch to ditch Wi-Fi lag and unlock 4K streaming and gaming at home — huge 47% discount for compact, fanless gigabit hub with five additional ports for your network

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Grab this $8.97 TP-Link Ethernet Switch to ditch Wi-Fi lag and unlock 4K streaming and gaming at home — huge 47% discount for compact, fanless gigabit device with five additional ports for your network

This TP-Link switch will unlock gigabit speeds around your home or office

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

AMD's flagship RX 9070 XT GPU hits an all-time low $629 in Amazon lightning sale — Gigabyte's Gaming OC graphics card now $110 off

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AMD

Pump up the graphics

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers

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Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers

A court also ruled that staffing was required for safety and to prevent facility damage

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford'

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Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance

A huge pay gap.

Tom's Hardware 3 days ago

Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon

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Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke

The entire project is open-source and available on GitHub.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

Samsung 990 Pro gets discount of over $200 from recent highs — grab the 2TB model for $429.99

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Samsung 990 Pro gets discount of over $200 from recent highs — grab the 2TB model for $429.99

The storage market is finally healing.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

Japan can’t make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year — $4,000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud noises

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Japan can’t make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year — $4,000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud noises

Producer has already sold more Monster Wolves this year than it usually does in a whole year.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

ASML to equip India’s first commercial chip fab — $11 billion Dholera project targets 50,000 wafers a month

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ASML to equip India’s first commercial chip fab — $11 billion Dholera project targets 50,000 wafers a month

The new Dholera facility will produce chips for automotive, mobile, and AI.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

LinkedIn recruitment spam becomes Olde English prose after user hides AI prompt injection in bio — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

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LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

This tale is also a warning that your AI agents can be manipulated in wholly unintended ways.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air

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Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air

These are 200mm wafers, packing between 30 to 120,000 chips, depending on the product.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

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Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

The patent sparked the largest settlement in history at the time.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times

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Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times

Only available with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app.

Tom's Hardware 4 days ago

US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals

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US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals

The company

Tom's Hardware 4 days 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.