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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

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Tom's Hardware · 07/18/2026 13:48 EDT

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously. Read more ›

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Fortinet becomes Intel 4's first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan's promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 12:17 EDT

Intel will design, package, and fabricate Fortinet's sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6) on its Intel 4 node. Read more ›

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Microsoft announces Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC — will let gamers play classic console games on PCs and handhelds

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 12:09 EDT

Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC will let gamers play classic Xbox games on PC and handheld. Read more ›

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The future of USB connectivity (2026) — How USB4 Version 2 and Thunderbolt 5 are bringing copper to its physical limits

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 11:40 EDT

The USB ecosystem is entering another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storage devices, displays, and peripherals connect in the second half of the decade. Read more ›

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AMD to supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs — will invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer, which is already using MI355X GPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 11:38 EDT

The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems. Read more ›

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Data centers forecast to use 20% of US power by 2035 — analysts estimate usage will rocket to 194 gigawatts, 83% more than forecast seven months ago

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 10:21 EDT

BNEF's December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025. Read more ›

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Apple reportedly working on Mac leasing program in partnership with Klarna to fight RAM price increases — 'Apple Upgrade' would let users finance hardware over 36 months, budget models excluded

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 09:34 EDT

A new Bloomberg report is claiming that Apple is working on a leasing program called "Apple Upgrade" that will allow customers to finance hardware over the course of 2 or 3 years. At the end of the term, they can keep the device or hand it back, or even upgrade to a newer model if payments are completed early. Read more ›

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AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims — amount is 122% of debt reflected on the balance sheets of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 09:23 EDT

Five tech giants have $1.65 trillion in data center obligations that are listed off their balance sheets. These liabilities are added as footnotes in their quarterly statements but will become due and payable once these data centers start operating. Read more ›

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Chinese modder gets GeForce RTX 4060 working in Windows 11 on Huawei Arm workstation — uses modified driver borrowed from an Nvidia RTX Spark

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 09:18 EDT

Borrowing a driver from the upcoming RTX Spark, VoidTech managed to get x86 Windows games running on a Huawei Arm workstation. Read more ›

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Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of versatility

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 07:36 EDT

Meta will reportedly use a custom version of AMD's Instinct MI400-series accelerators with a memory system cut to 144GB of HBM4, allegedly for select workloads only. Read more ›

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Just $1,399 for this potent RTX 5060 Ti 16GB-powered gaming PC — 32GB of DDR5 RAM and AMD's 7800X3D to help you crush the competition

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 07:06 EDT

Save $600 on this Skytech Gaming King 95 prebuilt gaming PC with Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM inside. Read more ›

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Woot has slashed $600 off this RTX 5070 gaming laptop — get a Gigabyte Aero X16 with 32GB of RAM and Ryzen HX 370 for just $1,399

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 07:06 EDT

Get a Gigabyte Aero X16 with RTX 5070, 32GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 for $1,399. Read more ›

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Adata chairman says DRAM shortage will last another 10 years — dismisses AI bubble talk until '2040 or 2050'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 07:00 EDT

Electricity, particularly green power, and memory will be the world's two scarcest resources over the next decade, Chen said. Read more ›

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PlayStation 3 emulator adds support for ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series graphics cards on Linux — 20-year-old HD 2600 crumbles, can only run Portal at 13 fps in 273p

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 06:49 EDT

The developers of the RPCS3 have announced that their PlayStation 3 emulator’s minimum system requirements have been adjusted to include a crop of even older Radeon graphics cards. Now gamers still cradling ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series GPUs can join in the fun. Read more ›

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Lucky PC gamer scoops insane $1,140 9800X3D PC at Costco while shopping for rotisserie chicken — iBuyPower prebuilt with 32GB RAM and RTX 5070 was a display unit discount

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 06:00 EDT

What started as a routine Costco grocery run ended with a heavily discounted display gaming PC, complete with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD. Read more ›

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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and unreleased AI models break out of testing environment in 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' — rogue agents hacked HuggingFace's production servers with 'thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2026 05:23 EDT

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its gang escape from their cage and hack into HuggingFace's production servers — unprecedented incident raises eyebrows and pulses Read more ›

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Nvidia shows off DLSS 5 with three AI modes for different levels of detail — upscaler can switch between models in real-time

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 13:46 EDT

DLSS 5 gets a second showing with Nvidia opening up the upscaler to object-level tweaking for developers with three different models. Read more ›

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China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 12:04 EDT

China's Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) considers to restrict exports of advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions of strategically important technology companies; prohibit usage of foreign semiconductor manufacturing services. Read more ›

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Amazon data center in Bahrain struck and destroyed by Iranian cruise missiles, state media claims — attacks launched against AWS site in response to alleged US strikes on an under-construction nuclear plant

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 11:47 EDT

The Amazon site has suffered multiple hits since the start of the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran. The IRGC claims to have 'destroyed' AWB Bahrain, but the company has moved operations off the facility since early April. Read more ›

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Behind the scenes at Nvidia's Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 11:15 EDT

Nvidia gave Tom’s Hardware Premium an exclusive look inside its previously undisclosed Engineering SuperLab near Nvidia HQ, where we saw Vera Rubin NVL72 in action. Read more ›

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Nvidia has shipped 'hundreds of thousands of Grace standalone servers’ — GPU firm pivots messaging as CPUs take center stage in agentic data centers

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 11:00 EDT

As Nvidia continues to roll out Vera, its first custom CPU for agentic AI, it revealed that its last-gen Grace design has seen mass deployments, even as a standalone CPU for non-agentic workloads. Read more ›

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