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AMD RX 9070 GRE collapses to $499 to save 1440p gaming — RDNA 4 price slips 9% to steal a piece of Nvidia's mid-range pie

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 10:23 EDT

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE has received its first price cut since launching outside China, making the 1440p-focused RDNA 4 graphics card a more compelling alternative to Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. Read more ›

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SK Hynix says 2027 will be the 'worst year' for memory shortage, forecasts crunch to last until 2030 — CEO shares grim outlook on the day SK Hynix gets listed on Nasdaq

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 09:00 EDT

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung says the memory shortage will get even worse in 2027, and claiming the RAM crunch will last at least until the turn of the decade. Read more ›

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Microsoft struggles to fulfill its 2030 sustainability promise amid carbon-heavy AI expansions — the company's chief sustainability officer claims the target is still feasible

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 08:45 EDT

Microsoft's carbon emissions jumped 25% in FY2025 as AI data center expansion outpaced sustainability gains, despite progress in water conservation and waste reduction. Read more ›

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Razer Soma Chroma Gaming Chair Review: Light on adjustability, but heavy on RGBs

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 08:05 EDT

If you’d like a dose of RGBs to go with your gaming chair, the Soma Chroma delivers for $499. Read more ›

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Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 07:30 EDT

Colibrì proof-of-concept gets a frontier-level AI model running on only 25 GB of RAM and a modest CPU Read more ›

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Fake Go DNS scanner spread malware through over 200 GitHub repos — 'Operation Muck and Load' has published 700 malicious modules since January

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 07:00 EDT

The module published its first version on January 24 this year and has since accumulated more than 1,200 versions. Read more ›

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Flock cameras mistakenly track car reviewer over 'stolen' tags — police ambush tester in store parking lot and detain him for an hour

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Tom's Hardware · 07/11/2026 06:30 EDT

Flock AI cameras failed to read the smaller digits on a non-standard New Jersey plate, leading cops to block in the driver on suspicion of driving a vehicle with "stolen" tags. It turns out the initial police report omitted the smaller numbers, resulting in several legitimate plates getting flagged by the system. Read more ›

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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged theft of trade secrets — claims company mentored incoming employees on bringing confidential information

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 17:59 EDT

Apple sued OpenAI, including its own former employees, over the theft of trade secrets as both companies build up AI hardware businesses. Read more ›

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SK hynix and TetraMem collaborate on experimental chip to bolster energy efficiency for edge AI devices — memristor-based in-memory SoC research leaves performance questions up in the air

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 12:58 EDT

SK hynix, TetraMem, and the University of Southern California built a memristor-based in-memory computing system-on-chip for AI edge devices, achieving promising energy efficiency, but failed to demonstrate its full potential. Read more ›

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Anthropic says it can read Claude's 'thoughts,' as detailed in new research paper — models observed to have a global workspace, revealing more of what makes LLMs tick

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 12:44 EDT

Anthropic has discovered an internal "J-space" for its Claude AI that displays similarities to human internal processing. While the AI developer anthropomorphizes it as thought, it may yet prove useful as a method of improving LLM honesty, oversight, and guardrails. Read more ›

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Intel's midrange Core Ultra 5 245K is down to its lowest price ever at just $179 on Amazon — save up to 42% on a solid gaming CPU with 14 cores and PCIe 5.0 support

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 12:27 EDT

Intel's forgotten 14-core SKU from last year has received a sizable discount on Amazon, making it one of the best value propositions in CPUs right now. It performs amicably in gaming and professional tasks thanks to its 6 P-cores and 8 E-cores that can clock up to 5.2 GHz. Read more ›

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Steam sales reportedly topped $11 billion during H1 2026 due to shifting trends — staggering growth driven by influx of Chinese players and booming legacy catalogues

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 11:25 EDT

Steam made an estimated $11.1 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2026, according to estimates from research firm Alinea Analytics. That's more than it did in the entire pandemic-ridden year of 2020. In fact, even last year's holiday season made 8% less money than H1 2026, making this half Valve's best-ever. Read more ›

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Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2026) Review: Stunning Mini‑LED, serious muscle, and a few missed steps

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 11:16 EDT

The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 pairs an 18-inch mini-LED display with cutting-edge components, but omissions like PCIe 5.0 storage and dual-channel RAM —plus slightly weaker performance than Razer’s Blade 18 —keep it from taking top honors. Read more ›

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Tencent is reportedly in talks to acquire Manus from Meta, following Beijing intervention — company expects to remain independent of Chinese tech giant

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 11:00 EDT

Tencent is in talks with Manus and other investors to raise the $2 billion needed to buy back the startup from Meta. Beijing ordered the two companies to unwind the deal six months after the surprise announcement of its purchase. Read more ›

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SK hynix raises a record $26.5 billion in historic U.S. IPO — South Korean memory giant to fund massive HBM manufacturing expansions

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 10:27 EDT

SK hynix raised $26.5 billion in a record-breaking Nasdaq IPO, as it plans to channel the windfall from surging AI demand and sold-out HBM supply to fund new fabs. Read more ›

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Nanya to quadruple capital spending to $6.2 billion in 2027 as DRAM prices push gross margin to 79.5% — Q2 revenue skyrockets as ASPs for memory continue to surge

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 09:31 EDT

Nanya Technology plans capex of more than TW$200 billion ($6.2 billion) in 2027, roughly four times its budget for this year. Read more ›

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Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 08:56 EDT

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus discloses one more aspect of its strategy: to offer lower quotes than TSMC. Read more ›

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Save 84% on a two-year ExpressVPN subscription, offering four additional months for free — upgrade your privacy for under $70 with no-logs access to servers in 105 countries worldwide

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 07:41 EDT

Right now, you'll save $378 in total on over two years' worth of ExpressVPN, now priced at $69.72, with four extra months thrown in for free. Read more ›

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Researchers turn HBM on its side to tackle AI memory’s heat wall — Korean V-Die and Japanese MOSAIC designs promise higher bandwidth, denser stacks, and cooler future GPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 07:40 EDT

Researchers in Korea and Japan have proposed sideways-stacked DRAM designs that could push future AI memory beyond conventional HBM limits by improving cooling, bandwidth, and capacity while reducing reliance on TSV-heavy vertical stacks. Read more ›

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Logitech's MX Master 4 hits $102 at Lenovo — up your productivity game with haptic feedback and effortless scrolling

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Tom's Hardware · 07/10/2026 07:34 EDT

Pick up the fantastic Logitech MX Master 4 productivity mouse from Lenovo and make a saving when you stack these two Lenovo e-coupon codes. Read more ›

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