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Pilot’s 50 minute in-flight tech support call failed to avert $200 million F-35 fireball — the pilot ejected and suffered only minor injuries

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 08/28/2025 06:12 EDT

An accident report has revealed that a U.S. Air Force pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers ahead of his plane plummeting to the ground and exploding in a fireball. Read more ›

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Prompted by free nuggets, security researcher uncovers staggering McDonald's internal platform vulnerability — changing 'login' to 'register' in URL prompted site to issue plain text password for a new account

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Tom's Hardware · 08/19/2025 09:38 EDT

A security researcher called "BobDaHacker" revealed how they repeatedly gained access to a McDonald's platform that's supposed to be closed off to the public. Read more ›

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Researcher downloaded the data of all 270,000 Intel employees from an internal business card website — massive data breach dubbed 'Intel Outside' didn't qualify for bug bounty

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Tom's Hardware · 08/19/2025 09:21 EDT

Security researcher Eaton was inspired to do some gentle prying of Intel websites, after considering the company's hardware security reputation. Read more ›

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Nvidia has cut some RTX 50-series prices in Europe — RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 reduced by almost 10%, likely prompted by falling U.S. dollar

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Tom's Hardware · 08/19/2025 08:34 EDT

Nvidia has reduced the price of some of its RTX 50-series cards in Europe. Read more ›

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Arm hires Amazon's AI chip developer, ostensibly to help create its own processors — Rami Sinno returns to the company, boasts Trainium and Inferentia on resume

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Tom's Hardware · 08/19/2025 07:31 EDT

Arm has hired Amazon's director of engineering for Amazon Web Services, who helped develop its homegrown AI hardware. This is part of ARM's drive towards developing its own complete processors, rather than just designing them for third parties. Read more ›

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SoftBank to buy $2 billion in Intel shares at $23 each — firm still owns majority share of Arm

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 20:40 EDT

SoftBank will invest $2 billion in Intel at $23 per share, a move seen as both a vote of confidence in Intel’s U.S. chipmaking comeback and a strategic bet on an undervalued semiconductor maker. Read more ›

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Nvidia's GeForce Now gets an RTX 5080 upgrade — Ultimate subscribers now get Blackwell benefits in the cloud

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 15:31 EDT

Nvidia is upgrading its GeForce Now service at Gamescom with new RTX 5080-powered instances for Ultimate subscribers, plus a range of other improvements. Read more ›

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Trump administration reportedly mulling a 10% stake in Intel — CHIPS Act funding could be reworked into the purchase amount

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 15:25 EDT

The Trump administration is considering taking a 10% stake in Intel by converting $10.9B in Chips Act grants into equity, a move that would make the U.S. government Intel’s largest shareholder and mark a major shift in how federal chip funding is deployed. Read more ›

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Nvidia teases imminent major GeForce Now announcement — confirms no new hardware coming at Gamescom 2025

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 12:12 EDT

Nvidia confirms it is returning to Gamescom this year but clarifies that it won't be announcing any new hardware at the convention. Instead, the GPU giant will focus on GeForce Now updates, updates to GeForce feature,s and new game releases. Read more ›

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AMD to disclose roadmaps in mid-November — The future of Zen 6, RDNA, CDNA, and UDNA expected

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 11:12 EDT

AMD to host 2025 Financial Analyst Day this November, where it will reveal its strategic technology and products roadmaps spanning from Zen 6 and CDNA 5 through the end of the decade. Read more ›

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Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 10:40 EDT

The security industry and the hackers they're supposed to defend against have both increased their use of AI as publicly available agents become more capable. Read more ›

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Latest Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — users report disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered after a reboot

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 09:48 EDT

Windows users are reporting SSD issues following the latest Windows 11 security patch. Read more ›

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Dell S3225QC 32-inch 4K QD-OLED Monitor Review: Compelling gaming value

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 09:16 EDT

Dell delivers stunning imagery with the S3225QC. It’s a 32-inch QD-OLED with 120 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, Dolby Vision, wide gamut color, and spatial audio from an integrated sound bar. It ups the ante for luxury gaming and entertainment. Read more ›

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China gets Intel Xeon 6P Granite Rapids CPUs repackaged with added security and tracking features — Jintide C6P CPUs with up to 86 P-cores

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 08:00 EDT

Montage Technology has launched the new Jintide C6P series of server processors in China. Read more ›

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SoftBank acquires Foxconn's Ohio facility to build Stargate AI servers — $375 million deal says Foxconn will continue to operate the plant

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 08:00 EDT

Foxconn has sold its Lordstown, Ohio, factory to SoftBank but will keep operating it as an AI server hub for the $500 billion Stargate project. Read more ›

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Samsung's excellent 4TB 990 Pro returns to low price not seen since November 2023 — $249 deal ends at midnight

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 07:59 EDT

Samsung's 990 Pro SSD is down to a price we haven't seen since November 2023. Read more ›

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Hardcore fan celebrates Alien Earth by building a fully-working M314 Motion Tracker replica — DreamHAT+ Radar module and Raspberry Pi is effective up to 15 meters, complete with sounds and a display

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 07:52 EDT

Electronics hobbyist Rob Smith has built a ‘fully working M314 Motion Tracker’. Read more ›

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Fragmented ecosystems and limited supply: Why China cannot break free from Nvidia hardware for AI

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 07:21 EDT

China's push for AI hardware self-reliance hits the roadblock despite U.S. government's restructions due to fragmented hardware and software ecosystems. Read more ›

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China mandates domestic firms source 50% of chips from Chinese producers — Beijing continues to squeeze companies over reliance on foreign semiconductors

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 07:18 EDT

A new report says China has started mandating that data centers use 50% homegrown silicon. Read more ›

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Nvidia’s ungainly 6-legged power adapter shown in new video — fabled RTX Titan Ada was allegedly supposed to come with dual 12VHPWR connectors that needed 6x 8-pin PCIe plugs

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 06:16 EDT

Der8auer shows off Nvidia's so-far unreleased dual 12VHPWR to 6x 8-pin adapter that was likely meant for the RTX Titan Ada that never came out. This adapter can supply up to 900W of power theoretically and is built very well for a prototype, with proper injection moulding. But there is no smart communication. Read more ›

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Raspberry Pi releases smaller five-inch Touch Display 2 — lower in price, same resolution as larger model

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Tom's Hardware · 08/18/2025 03:00 EDT

Raspberry Pi releases a smaller model of its updated touch display. This time with $20 off the price but the same display as the larger model. Read more ›

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