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Be quiet! Power Zone 2 850W power supply review: Silent, Platinum efficiency at an affordable price

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 11:35 EDT

An acoustically-optimized power supply that prioritizes silence and efficiency over premium components, delivering impressive thermal performance and modern connectivity at a competitive price point. Read more ›

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Another unreleased Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Founders Edition engineering sample surfaces on the second-hand market — a previous sample sold for $1,999 on eBay earlier this year

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 10:05 EDT

An engineering sample of an RTX 3080 Ti has surfaced in the secondhand market, according to a post on the Nvidia subreddit. Read more ›

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/22/2025 10:03 EDT

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›

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Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 hidden under the heatspreader — RAM sold as new was a switcharoo

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 08:06 EDT

Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 in disguise Read more ›

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Snap up this £899 Acer Nitro gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU before Christmas — this 1080p powerhouse boasts a 10-core Intel CPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 07:49 EDT

This 15.6-inch Acer Nitro gaming laptop features an RTX 5060 GPU, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and all for just £899.99. Read more ›

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You can own a piece of the first $124 million Atari Hotel in Phoenix for as little as $500 — Developer launches SEC-backed fundraiser with construction set to begin next year

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 07:45 EDT

The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 — the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process if you choose to invest at least $500 in the project. Read more ›

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China's premier GPU maker Biren kicks off Hong Kong IPO — GPU startups vying for Nvidia's crown race to fund AI chip development

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 07:20 EDT

Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion. Read more ›

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Maker builds tiny $10 secondary 1.14-inch display using an ESP32 — you could play Crysis on it, if you squint

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 06:50 EDT

A 1.14 inch secondary display built around an ESP32, that receives video frames over Wi-Fi, and you could build your own for $10. Sounds like a fun weekend project Read more ›

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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 12:17 EDT

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus. Read more ›

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Surprising biomedical application found for ASML’s chipmaking EUV lithography machines — they can mass produce nanopores for molecular sensing

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 11:34 EDT

IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML’s state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines. Read more ›

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Get a pre-built PC with 32GB of RAM for under $1,000 — this mid-range gaming desktop delivers decent performance for an affordable price during these trying times

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 10:48 EDT

The ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC is on sale for $999.99, slashing $400 off its regular price. This pre-built comes with an Intel Core i5-14400F, an RTX 5060, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM. Read more ›

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Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 10:04 EDT

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave up. Read more ›

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IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026 due to crushing memory shortages — some vendors already selling pre-builts without RAM

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 08:35 EDT

Market research firm IDC released updated forecasts for the PC market, saying that it could contract by 8.9%, with prices jumping up to 8%, if the memory shortage continues. Read more ›

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‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win — beat 256 other spreadsheet whizzes to claim the $60,000 first prize in Las Vegas tournament

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 08:15 EDT

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early. Read more ›

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RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses review: Intriguing, high-priced glasses with alarming battery life

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 08:00 EDT

If you have a short attention span and money to blow, the RayNeo X3 Pro might be up your alley, as it's expensive and has short battery life. Read more ›

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Nintendo Switch 2 to reportedly get smaller capacity game cartridges soon, offering an alternative to costly 64GB cards — Storage crisis might delay production, however

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 07:40 EDT

The Switch 2's Game-Key Card controversy has a burning new development, and we might finally have a middleground between expensive 64 GB Game Cards and digital-only releases. Smaller capacity cartridges, such as 16 or 32 GB, are reportedly in production but industry-wide shortages might disrupt their adoption and make them more expensive. Read more ›

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Massive two-year project recovers 144 previously undumped Sega Genesis game ROMs from the mid-1990s — lost Garfield and Flintstones games among the notable finds

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/21/2025 07:20 EDT

A massive, multi-year project to recover Sega Channel games from the mid 1990s has been a resounding success, with many exclusives saved. Read more ›

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Over 1,800 North Korean applicants flood Amazon — suspected illicit applicants blocked by the company since April 2024

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 07:00 EDT

The Amazon CSO reported that the company has seen over 1,800 applicants that it suspects are North Koreans posing as Americans. Read more ›

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Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 06:40 EDT

Pioneering search engine AltaVista opened its service to the public 30 years ago. Read more ›

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Russia has reportedly improved the range of its jam-proof optical drones to over 40 miles — purported Chinese-Russian collaborative production imagery reveals dramatically increased tethered drone range

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 06:20 EDT

Imagery of spools carrying 65km (~40.4 miles) of optical fiber, for FPV drone control, have been shared on Russian social media channels. Read more ›

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