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Intel opens pop-up stores across five cities featuring AI PCs from laptop manufacturers — we stopped by the NYC store, and one visitor in Munich found Panther Lake

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 13:11 EDT

Intel opens pop-up stores in New York City, London, Munich, Paris, and Seoul to show off some of its latest laptop tech. Read more ›

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LG's 32-inch, 4K OLED gaming monitor falls to $799 — dual-mode display is $500 off

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 12:22 EDT

Big and glossy, LG's 32-inch OLED UltraGear 32GX850A-B gaming monitor enjoys a $500 discount. Read more ›

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Police bust chip counterfeiting outfit in China, fakes may have made it into PC hardware — GPUs, motherboards, and power supplies potentially impacted by Infineon and TI fakes

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 12:04 EDT

Shenzhen authorities have dismantled a counterfeit chip operation that allegedly sold reclaimed and rebranded integrated circuits as premium imports from Infineon and others. Read more ›

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Asus' first-ever ROG AI gaming router costs as much as a mini PC and has the specs to match — device boasts quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage for $899

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 11:57 EDT

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI router integrates an NPU to make your network way smarter. Read more ›

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New AMD driver snubs Radeon RX 5000, 6000 GPUs with latest updates — also disables USB-C functionality on RX 7900 series

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 11:04 EDT

The latest AMD Radeon graphics driver skips older GPUs for feature updates and drops functionality from last-gen flagships. Read more ›

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$2,000 PC Build Spotlight: Rising Phoenix

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 09:00 EDT

The Rising Phoenix build is the first in a series of new builds at Tom's Hardware. Featuring an AMD 7800X3D, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, built into a gorgeous Phanteks Evolv X2, and some leather as a creative touch, this is a unique machine at under $2000. Read more ›

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Ambitious enthusiasts buy entire Boeing 747 cockpit in race to build flight simulator — three-month project recreates gauges, dials, and other mechanical instruments for X-Plane sim

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 08:33 EDT

A group of flight sim enthusiasts bought an old Boeing 747 cockpit to convert it into the ultimate flight sim setup. Read more ›

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Elon Musk says idling Tesla cars could create massive 100-million-vehicle strong computer for AI — 'bored' vehicles could offer 100 gigawatts of distributed compute power

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 08:18 EDT

During Tesla’s Q3 2025 earnings call, the firm’s CEO, Elon Musk, proposed that the cars take part in 'a giant distributed inference fleet' to tap into their incredible compute power "if they are bored." Read more ›

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U.S. and China agree on one-year tariff truce, including semiconductor and rare earth breakthroughs — the future of Nvidia AI chip sales to the nation remains murky

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 06:47 EDT

President Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed a one-year tariff truce. Read more ›

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OpenAI's Microsoft contract negotiation is a necessary step toward a future IPO — Altman's goal is to build 30 gigawatts of compute infrastructure, valued at $1.4 trillion

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 06:16 EDT

Microsoft and OpenAI have finalised the wording of their working relationship for the next five years and beyond. This brings to a close the negotiations which had held up major investments from Softbank, as well as OpenAI's for-profit restructuring. Read more ›

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QNAP's new NAS brings exotic data center 'ruler' SSDs into your house — massive ES.1 form factor SSDs for up to 19.2TB of storage for $4,399

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 06:00 EDT

QNAP launches TBS-h574TX all-flash NASbook with pre-installed 9.6TB or 19.2TB of enterprise E1.S storage. Read more ›

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Australia's police to use AI to decode criminals' emoji slang to curb online crime — "crimefluencers" will be decoded and translated for investigators

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 05:40 EDT

Australia's police are looking to build an AI tool that would detect and interpret emoji slang online in an effort to curb crime among bad actors in hateful communities, dubbed "crimefluencers." The AI will understand the difference between harmless lingo and coded messages to help police combat violent crime. Read more ›

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WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives — same drives that got WD sued in 2021 now reporting failure rates due to 'fundamental' flaws

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 05:20 EDT

Western Digital Blue and Red HDDs from 2020 that use SMR technology are experiencing enough failures to prompt an investigation from WD itself. These same drives, which included SMR without telling customers, resulted in a class action lawsuit against WD in 2021. Read more ›

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3D-printed full-auto bullpup 'ghost guns' can now be made for a couple of hundred dollars — designs have evolved dramatically outside the U.S.

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Tom's Hardware · 10/30/2025 05:00 EDT

3D-printed gun designs evolve and can print a full-auto bullpup for $200 Read more ›

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Huge Microsoft outage hit 365, Xbox, and beyond — deployment of fix for Azure breakdown rolled out

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Tom's Hardware · 10/29/2025 13:10 EDT

There's another AWS outage. Read more ›

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AWS outage strikes again — colossal internet breakdown for the second time in days

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Tom's Hardware · 10/29/2025 12:51 EDT

There's another AWS outage. Read more ›

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Windows 11 videos demonstrating account and hardware requirements bypass purged from YouTube — platform says content ‘encourages dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death’

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Tom's Hardware · 10/29/2025 12:09 EDT

A YouTuber's videos telling people how to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and how to install it on unsupported hardware were allegedly violating community guidelines on dangerous and illegal activities. Read more ›

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Nvidia's market capitalization hits $5.12 trillion — AI powerhouse is the first company in history to hit seismic milestone

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Tom's Hardware · 10/29/2025 11:44 EDT

GTC announcements drive Nvidia's market capitalization by over $200 billion in one day, making the company the world's first firm to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion. Read more ›

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China deploys wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast — $226 million project could top 24 megawatts, harnessing the cooling power of the sea

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Tom's Hardware · 10/29/2025 10:57 EDT

China has launched what it claims is the world’s first wind-powered undersea data center — a sealed, seawater-cooled cluster sitting 35 meters beneath the surface off the coast of Shanghai. Read more ›

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Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations

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Tom's Hardware · 10/29/2025 10:54 EDT

Someone has explained how they used AI to slash hospital bills from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars. Read more ›

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