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SK hynix and SanDisk announce new High Bandwidth Flash — speedy HBF standard is targeted at inference AI servers

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 15:36 EDT

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Nvidia rolls back its latest driver update — Game Ready Driver 595.59 reportedly causes fan issues on RTX 3000, 4000, and 5000-series GPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 15:29 EDT

GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 is said to disable one of the fans on Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs, even without third-party apps like MSI Afterburner. Read more ›

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Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 14:02 EDT

A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work. Read more ›

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Asus ROG Ally receives timely GPU driver update despite rumors of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme deprecation — new release follows recent speculation that driver support for some Windows 11 handhelds had ended

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 10:48 EDT

A new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU update for the Asus ROG Ally has alleviated some concern about its deprecation, although some questions remain about its longevity. Read more ›

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Corsair Sabre v2 Pro Wireless CF review: Feels like carbon fiber

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 09:46 EDT

Corsair's Sabre v2 Pro Wireless CF is an ultra-lightweight wireless mouse made of carbon fiber. It works well and comes with a fancy carrying case, but it also costs $200. Read more ›

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Nvidia warns of constrained supply of gaming GPUs — 'we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 09:42 EDT

Jensen Huang expects the supply of gaming hardware to be insufficient in the next two quarters and has limited visibility beyond that. Read more ›

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Best PC case fans tested 2026: Improve your airflow, silence your system, or add more RGB glow

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 08:30 EDT

We test several different fans to figure out which impellers are sellers and which spinners are sinners. Read more ›

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Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000Ai Wi-Fi 7 gaming router review – Bringing Edge AI to the consumer router market

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 08:00 EDT

The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000Ai delivers on performance and expandability, but the price is a bitter pill to swallow. Read more ›

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Chipmakers still suffering from rare earth shortages, says report — US-China trade truce apparently still hasn’t eased pressures despite agreement taking place in October last year

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 07:48 EDT

Sources told Reuters that some U.S. chipmaking firms are running low on scandium — a crucial rare earth material for making 5G chips — as they suffer delays from acquiring export licenses from Beijing. Read more ›

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Save a massive $1,570 on this Lenovo Legion gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — just $2,199.99 for 4K-ready rig with a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 07:28 EDT

A 41% saving on this Lenovo Legion Tower 7i Gen 10 gaming PC isn't one to miss. It includes an Intel Core Ultra 285K CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD, all for just $2,199.99, saving you a massive $1,570 on the list price. Read more ›

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Shave $150 off the bill with this 32GB DDR5-6400 RAM and Asus Rog Strix B850 motherboard bundle, just $449 — or opt for 64GB and save $210

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 07:11 EDT

Newegg has two combo offerings featuring an identical motherboard and Patriot Viper Venom RAM Read more ›

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Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new 'ratepayer protection pledge' to curb rising electricity prices in the US

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 07:00 EDT

Building upon his Social Truth post from last month, President Trump has formally asked the big tech players to build their own power plants. Data centers have been eating at the national grid, causing electricity prices to rise across the board — for the average household. The "ratepayer protection pledge" will combat this by ensuring companies generate their own energy. Read more ›

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HP says memory costs doubled in one quarter, now account for 35% of PC build materials

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 06:40 EDT

Interim CEO Bruce Broussard told investors the company has responded by securing long-term supply agreements for the year and has "qualified new suppliers". Read more ›

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MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis — AM4 emerges as the unexpected hero with RAM prices skyrocketing

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 06:20 EDT

MSI launches the Pro B550M-B and B550M-A Pro motherboards for previous-generation Ryzen processors that reside on the AM4 socket. Read more ›

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LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher pitted GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 06:00 EDT

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each other using historical scenarios. Out of the total of 21 matches, 20 ended with a tactical nuke detonation while three resulted in a full-on strategic nuclear exchange, essentially ending the world. Read more ›

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Testing CPU scaling in Resident Evil Requiem — and why we weren’t able to finish the job

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 06:00 EDT

We tested CPU scaling in Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem with some fascinating results. However, we weren’t able to get through a full suite of CPUs due to Capcom’s use of Denuvo Anti-Tamper in Resident Evil 9. Read more ›

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Lucky PC builder orders 32GB Corsair RAM kit for $300, gets a box of 10 worth $3,000 instead — plans to sell all the extra units to the community at pre-AI crunch prices

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 05:59 EDT

A Reddit user's order for a pack of 32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM turns into a box of 10, totalling 320GB of memory. Read more ›

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Nvidia posts record $215 billion annual revenue in latest quarterly earnings report — gaming GPUs now only 11.45% of revenue

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 05:28 EDT

As sales of gaming GPUs drop quarter-over-quarter, Nvidia enjoys record results amid massive AI craze and lack of rivals for the Blackwell platform. Read more ›

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Valve says it misreported VRAM capacity on some graphics cards in Steam Hardware Surveys — latest data depicting 30% adoption of 8GB GPUs now foggy

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Tom's Hardware · 02/26/2026 05:27 EDT

In January's Steam Hardware Survey, adoption of 8 GB GPUs was at almost 30% despite marking a 3.11% decline, while 16 GB GPUs were up an impressive 5.85%. Unfortunately, it seems like Valve misreported those numbers as the latest Steam Client Beta update includes a patch node admitting so. Read more ›

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Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece

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Tom's Hardware · 02/25/2026 20:14 EDT

Nvidia begins to ship samples of its Vera Rubin platforms for AI to partners, on track for revenue shipments in the second half of the year. Read more ›

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