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McDonald’s debuts one-finger gadget that lets you move your character to 'keep you in the game' while you chow down — Pro Gamer Menu's ‘Archie’ designed to keep you from being kicked for inactivity

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 11:36 EDT

McDonald’s Türkiye AFK solution will help keep gamers online during meal breaks without getting kicked from the match. Read more ›

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Nvidia AI tech claims to slash VRAM usage by 85% with zero quality loss — Neural Texture Compression demo reveals stunning visual parity between 6.5GB of memory and 970MB

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 11:33 EDT

Nvidia has just demoed its Neural Texture Compression technique again at a GTC talk, where it showed VRAM usage dropping from 6.5 GB to just 970 MB in a scene. NTC uses a neural network to decompress textures instead of standard block-based compression, reducing texture size and VRAM usage while also improving final image quality. Read more ›

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Unprecedented $450 price slash brings 27-inch 1440p 280 Hz OLED gaming monitor down to $399 — LG UltraGear OLED 27GX700A-B now at an unbeatable Price

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 10:50 EDT

LG’s 27-inch 280 Hz OLED gaming monitor sees a massive price drop, with a promo code bringing it down to $399. Read more ›

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Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon declares “hard down” status for multiple zones

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 10:48 EDT

Internal company communications indicate that multiple zones at AWS Bahrain and Dubai are "hard down," with no timeline for service restoration. Read more ›

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Sharge Disk Pro 2TB review: Great sustained writes, active cooling, and a built-in hub

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 10:16 EDT

Sharge's Disk Pro pairs a snappy 10 Gbps SSD with a handy port hub and active cooling, all in a compact, eye-catching shell with a magnetic back. It's an impressive package for gamers and road warriors, but you'll pay a high price for all these features. Read more ›

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Hands-on with Modos Tech 13.3-inch e-paper monitors — we tried the current Dev Kit model and the next-gen Modos Flow touch

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 09:00 EDT

Modos Tech sent us a couple of its latest e-paper monitors for some hands-on time. Read more ›

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Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 07:20 EDT

A modder has successfully booted a 12-core Bartlett Lake-S CPU into Windows using a modified BIOS on an Asus Z790 motherboard. Read more ›

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Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 07:00 EDT

Windows 11 24H2 systems are being upgraded to 25H2 automatically, as Microsoft aims to streamline updates before support ends. Read more ›

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Enermax Revolution III S 1000W power supply review: Platinum efficiency, limited thermal capability

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 07:00 EDT

The Enermax Revolution III S 1000W features certified Platinum efficiency, good power quality, and an absurdly confident 13-year warranty, though its small cooling fan and peculiar cable layout create limitations that deserve attention. Read more ›

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'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed — asserts that 'everything' was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 06:40 EDT

A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s. Read more ›

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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 06:20 EDT

A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system. Read more ›

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New 'GeForge' and 'GDDRHammer' attacks can fully infiltrate your system through Nvidia's GPU memory — Rowhammer attacks in GPUs force bit flips in protected VRAM regions to gain read/write access

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 06:00 EDT

Two new Rowhammer attacks for GPUs have been discovered that can cause bit flips in VRAM to gain arbitrary read/write access over it. These attacks target page files and the page directory that are otherwise protected from electrical disturbance by the driver. By "massaging" these data structures into vulnerable regions where a bit flip can occur, the attacker can access even the CPU memory. Read more ›

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Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going

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Tom's Hardware · 04/04/2026 05:40 EDT

Researchers from the Leiden University in The Netherlands used cutting-edge 3D printing technology to create these microrobots that measure just 0.5 micrometers across. Read more ›

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Intel's potent 18-core Core Ultra 5 250KF Plus CPU lands at retail for under $200

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 14:55 EDT

Intel's chip matches similarly-priced AMD parts in gaming and mercilessly wallops them in multi-threaded work. Read more ›

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Level up your gaming setup with this Core Ultra 5 250K Plus bundle for $299 — save $60 with ASRock's rock-solid B860 motherboard

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 14:22 EDT

Newegg puts up a new Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and ASRock B860 Rock WiFi 7 bundle for grabs at $299. Read more ›

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Report claims Arm chips will power 90% of AI servers based on custom processors in 2029 — x86 and RISC-V on the outside looking in

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 13:36 EDT

As hyperscalers seek efficiency and control from custom CPUs they build in house, they adopt Arm and 90% of servers running custom silicon will use the Arm ISA in 2029. Read more ›

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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 12:53 EDT

Via LA, the patent pool administrator for H.264/AVC, restructured its streaming license fees earlier this year, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap with a tiered system. Read more ›

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Newegg shaves $240 off this well-equipped RTX 5070, 7800X3D gaming PC — at $1,929, this CyberpowerPC is at least $100 less than the current cost of its components

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 11:56 EDT

If you’re looking for a deal on a gaming PC, it tends to be cheaper these days to buy a prebuilt, and this deal from Newegg delivers a powerful RTX 5070 / 7800X3D for significantly less than it would cost to build the system yourself. Read more ›

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Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 11:09 EDT

As cloud giants plan to spend $650 billion on AI infrastructure this year, the availability of power infrastructure components has become a significant obstacle to deploying AI data centers. Read more ›

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Researchers build Wi-Fi chip that can operate inside a nuclear reactor — receiver uses special materials and design to withstand high doses of radiation for at least six months

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Tom's Hardware · 04/03/2026 11:07 EDT

This hardened Wi-Fi receiver is designed to work for at least six months in some of the most radioactive spaces on earth. Read more ›

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