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California bill would restrict 3D printer sales to state-approved models to prevent printing gun parts — joins Washington and NY on legal offensive

Tom's Hardware 1 place · 02/20/2026 06:20 EDT

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Oricio BookDrive P10Plus (512GB) review: Magnetic back and 100W passthrough charging

Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 08:00 EDT

Orico's BookDrive P10Plus feels solid and has a magnetic back for snapping onto smartphones, as well as a 100w passthrough charging port. But its performance is lacking in one key area – especially for professional users. Read more ›

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Enthusiast runs desktop PC off 56 AA batteries — Intel computer lasts less than 5 minutes while playing Minesweeper

Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 07:57 EDT

YouTube creator ScuffedBits experimented with a desktop PC and AA batteries just to see how many they needed to run and for how long will a desktop PC last on AA battery power alone. Read more ›

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The Nvidia GeForce3 launched 25 years ago — underappreciated at launch, its impact shaped the industry

Tom's Hardware 3 place · today 06:40 EDT

Technological evolution rarely looks important in the moment. In fact, sometimes it even looks like a regression. Read more ›

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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

Tom's Hardware · today 06:20 EDT

The law's broad definition of an "operating system provider" pulls in not just Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, but Linux distributions and Valve's SteamOS. Read more ›

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AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ debuted this week in 1999 with on-die L2 cache to savage the Intel Pentium II — it also held the line against the Pentium III

Tom's Hardware · today 06:00 EDT

AMD launched its first processors with on-die L2 cache this week in 1999, heralding the beginning of the Super Socket 7 era. Read more ›

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Grab a mobile workstation with a jaw-dropping $1,200 discount and 96GB of DDR5 memory — Lenovo's robust & powerful ThinkPad P14s is on sale for just $1,539

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 12:44 EDT

The P-series in Lenovo's ThinkPad lineup is aimed at professionals looking for a lot of CPU power, and this unit in particular pairs that with an insane 96 GB of RAM. The processor under the hood is the Strix Point flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, featuring 12 cores and Radeon 890M integrated graphics for light 1080p gaming. Read more ›

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US military uses a laser to blast a drone out of the sky on the US-Mexico border — the target belonged to Customs and Border Protection in the friendly fire incident

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 11:58 EDT

The U.S. military accidentally shoots down a CBP drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border with a laser system after mistaking it for a cartel drone. Read more ›

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OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon following Claude blacklisting — Anthropic to challenge supply chain risk designation in court

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 11:38 EDT

Altman’s announcement came not long after President Trump “ordered” every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic's technology. Read more ›

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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 09:42 EDT

Myrient, which hosts more than 390TB of preserved video games, is set to go offline at the end of March 2026 due to rising storage and memory costs. The founder says they're spending more than $6,000 out of pocket per month to keep the project going. Read more ›

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Memory vendor under fire for imposing hefty 15% depreciation fee on returns despite skyrocketing RAM value — user expected RMA replacement but gets hit with a loss instead

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 08:52 EDT

Silicon Power reportedly charged a 15% depreciation fee while refunding a user their 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 RAM, meaning they'll only receive $46.72, which isn't even enough to buy a single 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM stick at current prices. Read more ›

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OpenAI raises $110 billion in largest-ever private tech funding round, Nvidia throws in $30 billion — AI startup now valued at $730 billion

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 07:20 EDT

$50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $30 billion from SoftBank, with additional investors expected to join as the round progresses. Read more ›

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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D vs Intel Core i9-14900K faceoff — Intel’s Raptor Lake platform continues to be relevant in 2026

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 07:00 EDT

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D now leads AMD’s gaming lineup, but Intel’s Core i9-14900K remains a powerful choice for productivity-focused users. We tested both in a head-to-head battle to see which CPU comes out on top. Read more ›

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Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 07:00 EDT

Reports from around the gaming world are heavily pointing toward the end of Sony's first-party AAA games being available on PC. Single-player PlayStation Studios titles are apparently now going to be assess on a game-by-game basis for launch on PC, with the general strategy pivoting to keeping them on console indefinitely. Read more ›

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Nostalgic developer recreates the 1994 Linux desktop as a modern web app for your browser — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 06:40 EDT

A new GitHub project has resurrected the 1994 Linux experience with this Debian clone in your browser, a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the original Common Desktop Environment that early Unix system users will be familiar with. Read more ›

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Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 06:20 EDT

An important Windows 9X era video gaming artifact appears to have been deliberately destroyed. Read more ›

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Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 06:00 EDT

Stand-alone device claimed to pull 1,000 liters (about 264 US Gal) of drinkable water a day from air with as little as 20% humidity. Read more ›

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Two suspects arrested over theft of $1.5 million in Bitcoin stolen from police custody in outrageous blunder — Korean cops left virtual assets stored with a third party, who handed over recovery key to hacker

Tom's Hardware · 02/28/2026 05:40 EDT

The authorities found out about the theft of 22 BTC from the Gangnam Police Station during the investigation of another case of missing Bitcoin from government custody. Read more ›

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Trump bans Anthropic AI from federal agencies after firm refuses to unlock capabilities, citing autonomous military applications, mass domestic surveillance — Musk's Grok leading replacement candidate

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 17:27 EDT

"We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again," said Trump. Read more ›

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Grab Razer’s offcially licensed Pokémon-themed gaming peripherals — themed keyboards, mice, and headsets celebrate 30 years of the franchise

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 15:00 EDT

Razer offers Pokémon-themed keyboards, mice, headsets, and deskpads to mark three decades of the iconic series. Read more ›

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Intel mobile CPUs have achieved up to 95x performance uplift over the past two decades — benchmarking the gains from 45nm Penryn to 18A Panther Lake

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 14:41 EDT

Leading Linux publication Phoronix has tested 15 Intel mobile processors launched over an 18-year period. Read more ›

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Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, comitting to 2 gigawatts of Trainium silicon — AWS to become exclusive cloud distributor for Frontier enterprise platform

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 12:53 EDT

The investment is part of a $110 billion funding round that values OpenAI at $730 billion pre-money, with Nvidia and SoftBank each contributing $30 billion. Read more ›

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Claude won't be allowed to engage in mass surveillance or power fully autonomous weapons — Anthropic refuses to lower AI guardrails for the Pentagon

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 12:06 EDT

Anthropic CEO has pushed back strongly against the Pentagon's requests to remove AI guardrails from Claude. Anthropic takes a concrete stance against mass surveillance and autonomous killing machines, arguing that the former is undemocratic, while frontier AI is not ready for the latter. Read more ›

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Secretlab has three Pokémon-themed Titan Evo chairs in honor of game's 30th anniversary — special edition seats available in Pikachu, Gengar, and Eevee flavors

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 11:43 EDT

Secretlab and The Pokémon Company International just collaborated to bring three limited-edition Pokémon-themed gaming chairs, featuring Pikachu, Gengar, or Eevee, in celebration of the popular franchise's 30th anniversary. Read more ›

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ISSCC 2026: AMD discloses how the Instinct MI355X doubled per-CU throughput despite lower compute unit count — 'We are actually matching the performance of the more expensive and complex GB200'

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 10:42 EDT

Taking to the stage at ISSCC, AMD’s Ramasamy Adaikkalavan talked through how AMD managed to fit nearly double the compute throughput into the same die area as its predecessor, Read more ›

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Nvidia DGX Spark gets 18% price increase as memory shortages bite — Founders Edition now $4,699, up from $3,999

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 09:24 EDT

Nvidia has raised the DGX Spark’s MSRP by $700, blaming constrained memory supplies as AI hardware demand continues to strain global availability. Read more ›

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Corsair Sabre v2 Pro Wireless MG Review: Not enough magnesium?

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 09:00 EDT

Corsair's Sabre v2 Pro Wireless MG is an ultra-lightweight wireless mouse with a perforated magnesium shell. It's $50 cheaper than the carbon fiber version, but at $150, it's still not cheap. Read more ›

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Rapidus secures $1.7 billion from Japan’s government and private investors for 2nm chip production — company says it is in active discussions with more than 60 potential customers

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 08:51 EDT

Under the arrangement, the government will initially hold roughly 10% of Rapidus's voting shares and the majority of its stake in non-voting stock. Read more ›

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Behind the scenes of our massive CPU retest for Bench — testing at 1080p, choosing new apps, and gathering data for a decade of CPUs

Tom's Hardware · 02/27/2026 08:19 EDT

We’re retesting a decade’s worth of CPUs for our CPU hierarchy and Bench database, and we’re taking Tom’s Hardware Premium users behind the scenes to show you how it’s done. Read more ›

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