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Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 11:09 EDT

A suspended IT worker who caused at least $200,000 of damage in an act of revenge upon his employer has been sentenced. Read more ›

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Nintendo to revise hardware, game, and membership pricing in Canada amid changing market conditions — Switch 2 remains unaffected, change slated for August 1

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 10:31 EDT

Original Switch consoles, games, and membership prices are changing in Canada, but the company hasn't said whether they're going up or down. Read more ›

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Singapore AI chip court case adjourned until August — trio accused of illegally smuggling Nvidia chips to China for use by AI firm DeepSeek

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 09:42 EDT

Prosecutors are asking for more time to study documents and get responses from international third parties. Read more ›

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New AI model claims to help solve 3D printing disasters — PrintFix.io can analyze images of your prints to identify issues and fixes

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 08:51 EDT

Can AI be your new 3D printing guru? New AI-powered program offers advice to fix your 3D printing problem. Read more ›

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This $37 tactile dial for PCs supercharges your scrolling with incredible 0.043-mm precision — Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed open source project you can also make on your own

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 08:45 EDT

If you are still computing in a workspace without hardware dials, Ploopy would like you to look at its Knob. Read more ›

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MicroSD card testing database exposes fakes, charts performance and endurance — 200 cards tested, 51 to destruction; 8 machines running 70 card readers wrote 18 petabytes for testing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 07:40 EDT

The Great MicroSD Card Survey is one of the most exhaustive guides to these fingernail sized slivers of storage that we have seen. Read more ›

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Nvidia RTX 5050 benchmarks reveal close contest with RTX 4060 — new budget card even outperforms forebear in some tests

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 07:22 EDT

Benchmarks by Inno3D show the RTX 5050 performing nearly at par with the older RTX 4060. Read more ›

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Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support — 580 series drivers will be the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 cards

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 07:06 EDT

An official Nvidia Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule says that driver branch 580 will be the last to include support for the Maxwell and Pascal architectures. Read more ›

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Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 07/01/2025 06:48 EDT

Synology's new SNV5400 drive family has hit the shelves, and comes with a spit-take inducing price tag of $630 for 1.6 TB of PCIe 3.0 storage. The family goes as low as $175 for 400GB, representing more than 2x the industry standard for a matching NAS drive. Read more ›

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OneXSugar gets demoed live — watch the dual-screen Android handheld transform into a Switch and a 3DS

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 06:15 EDT

OneXSugar is a crazy Android handheld that's somehow also a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo 3DS at the same time. Read more ›

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Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 06:00 EDT

Micron detailed its $200 billion U.S. investment plan to build six DRAM fabs and HBM assembly facilities in the U.S. over the next 20 years. Read more ›

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Live: the latest news from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 05:56 EDT

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Nintendo president apologizes for Switch 2 shortage — says demand greatly exceeded expectations

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 05:46 EDT

A shareholder asked Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa why there weren't enough Switch 2 consoles to go around. Read more ›

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Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2025 05:29 EDT

Now out of beta, Steam's new performance monitor highlights a much-needed divide between what your GPU is actually capable of versus what it can do with a bit of help. Read more ›

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Apple considers external AI partners to boost Siri smarts — Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly in early talks to replace in-house models

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 17:41 EDT

Apple is considering using models from OpenAI or Anthropic to power Siri and improve its AI competitiveness, according to a Bloomberg report. Read more ›

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RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg — RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all fall to low prices ahead of Prime Day

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 16:45 EDT

Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up Read more ›

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Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 14:20 EDT

AMD AI Linux-powered servers are failing to hibernate due to excessive VRAM and a high number of AMD Instinct accelerators per system. Read more ›

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New 3D printing tech fuses hard and soft structures in a single print — novel resin can create both with different light sources

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 12:28 EDT

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3D printing technique that lets you print hard and soft materials with the same resin. Read more ›

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Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 12:12 EDT

The developers behind Fedora have withdrawn their proposal to drop 32-bit support from the OS. Fedora 44 will maintain 32-bit support, allowing Steam to keep functioning on the Linux distribution. Read more ›

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AI boom drives explosive demand for leading-edge process nodes — 7nm and below nodes set to expand by 69% in three years

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Tom's Hardware · 06/30/2025 11:58 EDT

Surging adoption of AI, next-generation technologies is driving semiconductor makers to expand 7nm and more advanced production capacity by 69% through 2028. Read more ›

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