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Scientists 3D print titanium fuel tank for space travel — world's first to pass critical durability test

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Tom's Hardware · 08/11/2025 08:44 EDT

A joint team has successfully 3D printed a titanium fuel tank that was able to pass a durability test for space travel. Read more ›

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Back in stock, this MSRP-priced RTX 5080 OC is the 2nd most powerful GPU available and is now just $999 for the overclocked variant.

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Tom's Hardware · 08/11/2025 08:38 EDT

Stack up on frames with PNY's GeForce RTX 5080 OC at its lowest price Read more ›

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Rumored $599-$699 MacBook could be in the works — 12.9-inch model with iPhone 16 Pro SoC tipped for Q3 2025 production

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Tom's Hardware · 08/11/2025 07:02 EDT

Apple’s manufacturing partners in Taiwan are reportedly preparing a MacBook deluge with a new level of affordability, according to industry sources. Read more ›

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Adaptec announces new RAID card that supports up to 32 NVMe PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 SSDs — offers up to 291GB/s read speeds at full capacity

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Tom's Hardware · 08/11/2025 06:29 EDT

Adaptec has introduced a new enterprise RAID card that uses software-defined storage to support up to 32 PCIe 5.0 SSDs with speeds of up to 291 GB/s. Read more ›

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CT scan peels back the layers of time to reveal the engineering within Intel’s iconic 386 CPU — exposing intricate pin mapping, hidden power planes, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 08/11/2025 05:43 EDT

A high-resolution CT scan of Intel’s legendary 386 processor reveals its hidden inner world without breaking it open. See the complete 3D map of gold bond wires, detailed pin connections, and the layered power planes that powered one of computing’s most influential CPUs. Read more ›

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The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is on sale for all-time low $949 at Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 12:12 EDT

The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date — $949 instead of its usual $1,999. Read more ›

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New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’ — chip and power spikes plague new version 141.x

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 11:49 EDT

Firefox rolled out update 141 last month with AI enhanced tab groups, but an issue simmering under the hood has only now come to a head. Read more ›

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Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried PCB traces give up for good in unsuccessful repair attempt

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 11:14 EDT

A lifeless RTX 4090 with 48GB of VRAM landed on a repair bench, showing no display output. What followed was a deep dive into diagnostics, power rail checks, and trace hunting—only to reveal hidden PCB damage so severe that even expert fixes couldn’t bring the GPU back from the dead. Read more ›

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Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative features went live this week

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 11:06 EDT

Microsoft is putting Copilot Gaming (Beta) on the Game Bar for Xbox Insiders, while giving every creator access to its new AI-driven 2D to 3D feature (as long as you have a Microsoft Account). Read more ›

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China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 10:08 EDT

A social media account linked to China state media says that users should avoid Nvidia chips. Read more ›

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Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 09:34 EDT

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly dismissed a RISC-V code contribution from a Google engineer as 'garbage.' Read more ›

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Self-taught modder builds completely transparent Game Boy Color circuit board that actually works — PCB looks stunning when matched with fully transparent shell

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 09:01 EDT

Natalie built the schematics and circuit herself, but ordered the clear PCB from a third-party supplier. Read more ›

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Intel's Nova Lake mobile specs leaks out, top end HX variant to feature 28 CPU cores and 4 Xe cores — Entire lineup is reportedly limited to a single compute tile

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:40 EDT

Core configs for Intel's Nova Lake mobile lineup has reportedly leaked, with the top HX variant featuring up to 28 CPU cores and 4 GPU cores. Nova Lake-H and Nova Lake-U families also detailed. Read more ›

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Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero day hack requires manual update to fix

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:20 EDT

WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 was serious but has been fixed in version 7.13. Read more ›

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Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring — compatibility and reliability issues could increase over time

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:08 EDT

Intel is continuing to drop more Linux maintainers and Linux drivers due to corporate restructuring within the company. Read more ›

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AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’

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Tom's Hardware · 08/10/2025 08:01 EDT

A software engineer, who previously accused AWS of 'digital execution,' has shared the good news that his data has now been restored. Read more ›

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Battlefield 6 reaches record half a million concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 18:45 EDT

If success could be measured by numbers, Battlefield 6 would invent new math. The game, which is in its open beta right now, has just crossed the 500,000 player count on Steam, beating not only every other Battlefield before it, but also every COD title ever. Read more ›

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Seagate's monstrous BarraCuda 24TB hard drive on sale for only one cent per gigabyte — drops back to Prime Day pricing at $250

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 14:55 EDT

Newegg is offering Seagate's legendary BarraCuda hard drive in its 24TB variant for only $250 right now, that amounts to a cent per gigabyte. These are great savings for a NAS-ready, 7200 RPM hard drive that use the fat better CMR tech instead of the archaic SMR method. Read more ›

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AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 14:46 EDT

But there remain a few options to plug in your 56K (or slower) screeching modem into. Read more ›

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Blizzard's ex-CEO says Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" Call of Duty this year because the franchise has "gone downhill" — calls it a victory for players as COD "won't be lazy" anymore

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Tom's Hardware · 08/09/2025 13:22 EDT

Battlefield 6 has been receiving critical and fan acclaim over the past few days, and Mike Ybarro, Blizzard's former president, has shared a similar sentiment. He says Call of Duty has "gone downhill" and that Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" COD this year for several reasons. Read more ›

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