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Lucky Facebook Marketplace shopper finds souped-up prototype GTX 2080 Ti inside a $500 PC — mythical Nvidia project features 12GB of VRAM and higher memory bandwidth

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 09:24 EDT

Specifications suggest Nvidia once considered a more powerful TU102 design for the RTX 2080 Ti GPU Read more ›

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Microsoft denies Mexico data center linked to water shortages, local illnesses, and power outages — stomach bugs and even hepatitis reported in region as 1.5 Gigawatt AI data center buildout looms

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 09:19 EDT

Microsoft has denied claims that its data center in central Mexico is tied to a recent spate of power outages, water shortages, and health concerns, claiming it always prioritizes the needs of local communities in any actions it takes. Read more ›

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Razer Iskur V2 X Gaming Chair Review: An affordable, frills-free entry-level gaming chair

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 08:00 EDT

Razer puts the Iskur V2 through a cost-cutting spree, and the result is the Iskur V2 X. Read more ›

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Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 07:59 EDT

Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon pooling system reduced the number of Nvidia GPUs required to serve large language models by 82% during a multi-month beta test inside its Model Studio marketplace. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab is selling the awesome P1S 3D printer for an all-time low of $449 — clip the coupon for a $100 saving

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 07:41 EDT

Pick up the Bambu Lab P1S for a song. Only $449 for one of our favorite 3D printers. Read more ›

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Embattled Dutch chipmaker Nexperia blasts ousted CEO over false accusations — claims of unpaid salaries and independent operation in China are 'falsehoods', say company

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 07:36 EDT

The ousted ex-CEO of Dutch chip firm, Nexperia, has reportedly been claiming that Chinese workers can defy Dutch administrators and that staff haven't been paid. Dutch management denies these claims, calling them "factually incorrect and misleading." Read more ›

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Colossal AWS outage breaks the internet — Roblox, Fortnite, Zoom and beyond all crippled

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 10/20/2025 05:16 EDT

Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet. Read more ›

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Musk challenges legendary AI researcher Karpathy to an AI coding showdown against Grok 5 — gets a polite 'no' to an IBM Deep Blue-like showdown

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 05:00 EDT

Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue. Read more ›

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TSMC gives an ultra-rare video look inside its fabs — 'Silver Highway' and fab tools revealed in flyby video of company's US Arizona Fab 21

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 12:25 EDT

TSMC's new flyby video of its Fab 21 in Arizona offers a rare glimpse inside the fully operational N4/N5 cleanroom, highlighting ASML's EUV scanners producing chips for Apple, AMD, and Nvidia. Read more ›

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Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro Review: As good as the DeathAdder V3 Pro

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 12:00 EDT

The DeathAdder V4 Pro retains the fantastic shape of its predecessor, weighs about 10% less, and includes an 8K wireless polling dongle in the box. Read more ›

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Enthusiast plays Battlefield 6 on his CPU watercooler's screen — tiny 2.1-inch 480x480 MSI liquid cooler screen good enough for XP farming

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 11:55 EDT

Battlefield 6 is an intense game with gorgeous visuals that demands the best screen possible. But what if you're at work and your literal job is to test displays? That's when a bit of ingenuity kicks in and you switch to the tiny screen on your CPU's liquid cooler to maximize gaming efficiency like a boss. Read more ›

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DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 11:19 EDT

The first public release of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, a new version of the DOS emulator by Psyraven, was made available on Saturday evening Read more ›

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Windows 11's October update just broke the Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in Windows RE after latest bug hits

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 10:30 EDT

Like a moth to a flame, Windows has attracted yet another bug. In the latest October update, the recovery environment renders your USB keyboard and mouse unresponsive, making it impossible to interact with your PC. Microsoft has already taken note of the issue and plans to fix it in a future update. Read more ›

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Palantir chief takes a jab at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says people decrying ‘China hawks’ are 'useful idiots' — 'The first step to ending our dependence on China is admitting we have a problem'

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 09:40 EDT

The Palantir CTO called out Jensen Huang's 'China hawk' comments. Read more ›

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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 09:10 EDT

Introduced in October 1985, the third-generation x86 processor was the first 32-bit chip in Intel’s PC line, the origin point for the IA-32 instruction set, and the architectural turning point that transformed personal computing. Read more ›

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The $150 external HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is an Apple Magic Trackpad alternative for Windows users with haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity — crowdfunded peripheral ships in Q1 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 08:46 EDT

The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro packs premium build quality, zero-latency performance, and app-specific customization, all aimed at bringing macOS-style trackpad precision to Windows setups. Read more ›

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WeCreat Lumos review: Premium and portable

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 08:00 EDT

The WeCreat Lumos is a fast, portable, capable, laser engraver with great resolution and limited cutting abilities. Read more ›

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OceanGate Titan computers crushed into twisted mass of metal and electronics during catastrophic implosion — investigators find signs of thermal damage, too

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 07:54 EDT

Investigators reveal the twisted metal and electronics found at the OceanGate Titan implosion site. However, data recovery efforts have been fruitless. Read more ›

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BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 10/19/2025 06:00 EDT

An unfortunate Reddit user lost access to 3 terabytes of data stored across two drives when BitLocker automatically encrypted them without the user's knowledge, within Windows 11. With no keys to unlock the drives, the data is now permanently gone with no hopes for conventional recovery. Read more ›

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Stinky thermal paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, 'glues' heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers - SGT-4 TIM is a chemically reactive blend, finds investigation

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 05:45 EDT

An investigation revealed that the popular low-cost Amech SGT-4 thermal paste is a chemically reactive PDMS-based compound containing that releases acetic acid, produces a vinegar odor, corrodes copper surfaces, and even creates ant holes on surfaces. Read more ›

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