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Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 07:00 EDT

Four individuals suspected of smuggling Nvidia AI GPUs into China by using Singapore as a transshipment point are facing multiple charges. Singaporean authorities say they are not obliged to enforce foreign export controls but expects businesses in its borders to abide by them. Read more ›

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The best tech deals this July 4th — save on gaming desktops, laptops, GPUs, gaming chairs, monitors, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:58 EDT

See our favorite tech deals over July 4th — the best prices on gaming PCs, gaming laptops, monitors, and components. Read more ›

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Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:40 EDT

Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem. Read more ›

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Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:20 EDT

Intel begins expansion of its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara to produce more photomasks in-house, which is set to be crucial as process technologies get more sophisticated. Read more ›

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Google testing controversial webcam-based reCAPTCHA that asks for a hand scan to prove you're human — testers beat it with a stock photo

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:00 EDT

Google is testing a reCAPTCHA check that switches on a user's camera and asks them to wave or hold up an open palm. Read more ›

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Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are 'utterly false'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 05:48 EDT

SpaceX is reportedly working on a handheld device that runs a proprietary operating system and features advanced AI capabilities from xAI, but Elon Musk denies existence of the product. Read more ›

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32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 is $359 in this Woot sale — the lowest standalone RAM price in months, thanks to $80 discount

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 05:45 EDT

Get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for just $314 at Woot. Read more ›

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Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 15:19 EDT

Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc. Read more ›

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Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab's licensing of 14A

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 10:07 EDT

Tesla hires an Intel veteran, who most recently was responsible for installing advanced tools at Intel's Arizona fab that is now ramping production of chips using 18A fabrication process. Read more ›

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Get 32GB DDR5 for less than $260 in this B&H RAM bundle deal for an AMD AM5 build — save $119 on this PC parts kit that includes a Ryzen 5 CPU and an Asus B650E motherboard

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 10:01 EDT

Save 18% on a solid AMD AM5 starter bundle with a Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM, and an Asus B650E motherboard, a solid and affordable foundation today with an easy path to future Ryzen upgrades tomorrow. Read more ›

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Sony officially kills the PlayStation disc, ending physical game production in 2028 — shutting down the PlayStation Store on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita systems

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 09:56 EDT

While Nintendo remains a holdout, this announcement essentially sounds the death knell for physical media in cutting-edge gaming. Read more ›

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Starlink offers 50% discount, free hardware rental for residents surrounding its data centers — move comes as Elon Musk faces lawsuits from residents complaining about noise and air pollution from developments

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 09:45 EDT

SpaceXAI is trying to win residents living close to the Colossus 1 and 2 data centers by giving them discounted internet access. However, critics say that this is just a PR stunt to help win the community, even as it battles two lawsuits based on air and noise pollution complaints from people living near its data centers. Read more ›

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Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 as US lifts export controls — single filter now blocks prompt that could identify software vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 07:30 EDT

Anthropic has restored global access to Claude Fable 5, a day after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew the export controls. Read more ›

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Grab a massive $464 saving on a two-year NordVPN subscription with three extra months free — 69% saving unlocks this privacy-first VPN service with scam protection, password manager, 1TB cloud storage, ad blocking and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 07:12 EDT

A big sale on NordVPN's top Prime package means you can save over $464 on a 2-year sub with three additional months thrown in for free. Read more ›

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The bifurcated laptop landscape of Computex 2026 – MacBook Neo competitors with 8GB of RAM, and expensive Nvidia laptops promising an agentic-focused future of Windows on Arm

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 07:00 EDT

With no new GPUs or major mobile CPU platform launches surrounding the show, the laptop announcements at Computex this year fell into two disparate categories, appealing to users with very different budgets. Read more ›

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Philippine town closes all 'Pisonet' computer rental shops in wake of school shooting — incident blamed on violent video games, shops closed 'for the safety of the youth'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 06:48 EDT

A town in northern Philippines closed down all computer rental shops, with the mayor saying that these establishments distracted students from their studies and led to abuse and other dangers. The move came a little over a week after many people have started blaming a deadly school shooting in central Philippines on a violent video game that the perpetrators played. Read more ›

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Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 06:30 EDT

Virginia county asks all employees including schools to save power, due to AI-driven power requirements— state's 400-plus datacenters steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing Read more ›

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New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 06:02 EDT

A research firm says that PC deliveries for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 7%, with the entire industry expected to ship 14.4% less units for the entire year. Read more ›

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AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — 'CoT Forgery' exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 06:00 EDT

Tagged partitions of a LLM's input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection. Read more ›

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32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 is $314 in this Woot sale — the lowest standalone RAM price in months, thanks to $125 discount

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 05:34 EDT

Get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for just $314 at Woot. Read more ›

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