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Sandisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes as NAND shortage strangles the market — WD Black SN8100 8TB skyrockets past $2,500, more than a high-end gaming PC

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 07:00 EDT

SanDisk has significantly increased prices on SSDs sold through its online store, with some models seeing increases of up to xx. Read more ›

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Biwin Black Opal NV7400 2TB SSD Review: Another Arrow in Biwin’s Quiver

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 07:00 EDT

The Biwin Black Opal NV7400 is a solid performer with reasonable power efficiency and no real downsides. Read more ›

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Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once — 31.4 Tb/s attack was large enough to take entire countries offline

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 06:40 EDT

Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s Read more ›

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World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider — CERN's accelerator leverages its massive cooling network to help slash local carbon emissions

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 06:20 EDT

A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN's accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses. Read more ›

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U.K. internet provider's bailout cancelled because rats chewed through its fiber optic cables — biodegradable cable jackets use soy- or corn-based materials, attracting hungry rats

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 06:00 EDT

A British broadband internet provider refused to buy a distressed competitor as its entire fiber network has reportedly been chewed up by rats and rodents. Read more ›

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Scientists share design so you can make your own 3D-printable 'eFlesh' for robots — affordable, easy to produce, and highly-tactile robot sensor grips can be printed at home

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 05:40 EDT

Scientists share plans for highly-tactile 'eFlesh' robot sensor grips Read more ›

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UK Ministry of Defense backs new Drone Engineering Degree to make the army 10X more lethal using know-how from Ukraine

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Tom's Hardware · 01/31/2026 05:20 EDT

A new cutting-edge Drone Engineering Degree course will welcome its first intake of students in the UK, this year. Read more ›

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Here are the tools you need to clean up and upgrade your laptop — Does your laptop need a refresh?

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 13:49 EDT

While you can’t replace most things on a laptop these days, but you can still maintain it and upgrade some things to keep it running its best. Read more ›

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Rumor claims AMD Zen 6 will feature 48MB of L3 cache — keeping L3 cache-to-core ratio the same as Zen 5 with Zen 6's 12-core CCD

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 12:35 EDT

A new rumor suggests that AMD will be upgrading Zen 6 to 48MB of L3 cache to compensate for the four additional cores that will be introduced to Zen 6's CCD. Read more ›

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Apple-1 ‘Prototype Board #0’ sells for $2,750,000 at auction, blows past estimates — sells for 5x anticipated value, obliterates previous record

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 11:35 EDT

Super-rare and extremely early Apple Computer motherboard sale blasts past auctioneer estimates to achieve hammer price of $2,750,000. Read more ›

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China moves into manufacturing disruptive new semiconductor glass substrates as processor packaging competition intensifies

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 10:25 EDT

Glass wafer materials are emerging as a potential and viable alternative to their more conventional, aged organic counterparts. Read more ›

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Big three memory chip manufacturers policing customers to prevent hoarding — employee says industry relationships ‘matter in a crunch’

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 09:59 EDT

The big three memory chip makers are reportedly becoming stricter when it comes to who buys their chips, ensuring that the demand is real before allowing customers to get them. Read more ›

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Intel shows off leading-edge tech with massive AI processor test vehicle — huge chip features four logic tiles, 12 HBM4 stacks, and 8X reticle size

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 09:56 EDT

Intel demonstrates 8X reticle size prototype system-in-package that features four logic tiles, two I/O tiles, and 12 HBM4-class stacks. Read more ›

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Apple chasing memory supply to meet high customer demand — CEO Tim Cook says shortage will have a greater impact on its Q2 earnings

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 09:00 EDT

Apple's CEO says that it's scrambling for memory as the higher-than-anticipated iPhone sales mean that it has "very lean channel inventory." Read more ›

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Audeze Maxwell 2 Review: Maxwell 1.5?

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 09:00 EDT

The Maxwell 2 is the second iteration of Audeze's impressive planar magnetic gaming headset, and it's very similar to the original. Maybe too similar. Read more ›

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The Stout Owl: How I Built the Ultimate Noctua G2 PC

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 09:00 EDT

Somebody once gave me free will, and it was universally agreed that this was a bad idea. Read more ›

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Acer Predator X34 OLED 34-inch WQHD 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Ultra-wide and ultra-fast

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 08:00 EDT

Acer delivers solid value to the 34-inch ultra-wide category with its Predator X34 OLED. A curved 3440x1440 WQHD panel sports DisplayHDR 400 True Black, wide gamut color, 240 Hz, and Adaptive-Sync. It’s a high-performance screen with solid value. Read more ›

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Nvidia says Chinese military dependence on American tech would be 'nonsensical,' following US govt agency's claims it assisted Deepseek with training AI models — says Admin's critics 'are unintentionally promoting the interests of foreign competitors'

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 07:08 EDT

Nvidia has strongly pushed back against a report that says it provided technical assistance to DeepSeek Read more ›

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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness'

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 07:00 EDT

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved Read more ›

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Land an RTX 5080 gaming PC deal with 64GB of RAM for just $2,279 — this factory-reconditioned rig saves you hundreds of dollars, RAM and GPU alone worth $1,938 in today's market

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2026 06:51 EDT

A beastly gaming machine that contains 64GB of fast DDR5 RAM and a powerful Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card. Read more ›

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