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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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Nvidia deep dives Vera CPU for AI data centers — SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks revealed, Olympus architecture specifics, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 11:00 EDT

Nvidia reveals all of the details about its Vera data center CPU, including an architectural breakdown of the Olympus core and the first (unofficial) SPEC CPU 2026 results. Read more ›

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Nvidia details Rubin architectural optimizations for inference – improvements target better performance and efficiency from the GPU to the rack

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 11:00 EDT

Nvidia has detailed new features of its Rubin architecture. Read more ›

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Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 10:59 EDT

The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China's new Kimi K3 model. With its trillions of parameters, it's just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it's cheaper. But it's not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control. Read more ›

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Local AI clustering with Dell's Pro Max GB10 — connecting two Nvidia Grace Blackwell to scale out AI compute at home

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 10:30 EDT

We paired up and tested a pair of Dell's Pro Max with GB10, to see what a small cluster of Nvidia's Spark silicon can do. At $6332 each, as of writing, it's still an expensive prospect, but far cheaper and more desk-friendly than a big server box full of GPUs and the other necessary high-end hardware. Read more ›

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Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated library infringes on authors’ rights

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 09:37 EDT

The settlement was finally approved by a U.S. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own. Read more ›

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Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet's next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 09:00 EDT

SP6 will draw on what the companies described as Intel's expertise in disaggregated semiconductor design and advanced packaging. Read more ›

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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 08:44 EDT

Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on. Read more ›

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TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027, report claims — plans to raise baseline prices by 5% to 10% on advanced nodes

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 08:43 EDT

TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity. Read more ›

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Intel layoffs to hit Data Center group — division focused on server CPUs, AI chips, and data center architecture to be hit by an unknown number of cuts

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 08:23 EDT

Intel plans to cut the employee numbers of its Data Center group, months after announcing record growth since its disastrous announcement in 2024. Read more ›

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Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $12 in this Newegg AM5 combo — score AMD's new Ryzen 7700X3D, 16GB of RAM, and Asus B850 motherboard for only $491

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 08:20 EDT

Build an AMD AM5 gaming PC for less with this Newegg combo deal. Snag a Ryzen 7700X3D, MSI B850 motherboard, and 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM while saving $194 versus buying separately Read more ›

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Save $400 on a new 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 — 48GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 16-core processor for $2,699

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 07:28 EDT

Save a whopping $400 on a brand-new Apple MacBook Pro at B&H Photo. This 14-inch beast uses the latest 16-core M5 chip and 48GB of RAM. Read more ›

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1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 07:27 EDT

Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, with the strap line 'welcome to the cutting edge of 1994.' This is a Sega 32X game set in the Backrooms, the internet phenomenon given a huge boost with the release of the psychological horror indie film earlier this year. Read more ›

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SMIC's third-gen 7nm node shows smaller metal pitch than Intel 18A, higher transistor density than TSMC N6 without EUV — analysis of N+3 shows significant advancement for Chinese semi manufacturing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 07:00 EDT

SMIC's N+3 process technology can achieve transistor density comparable to TSMC's N6 without using EUV lithography, but it fails to deliver performance or efficiency of modern production nodes. Read more ›

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Google reportedly developing 'Frozen v2' chip with Gemini's architecture etched into the silicon — engineers project 6 to 10 times more tokens per watt than latest TPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 06:40 EDT

Google is developing a server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2," that would etch part of its Gemini model's architecture directly into the silicon. Read more ›

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PC modder bolts 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink to RTX 4060 — convection-only cooling seems to work fine in a testbench-style installation

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 06:00 EDT

A PC gamer has DIYed a passive Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card system incorporating a 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink. Read more ›

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$399 Nintendo Switch 2 back in stock Woot for new customers, $427 for returning customers with code — get $100 off the most recent price hikes

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 05:41 EDT

Get a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 for less. Read more ›

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Nvidia's new Synthetic Video Detector can identify fake AI videos with up to 92% accuracy — microservice based on cutting-edge research looks to combat misinformation in broadcasts with just 22ms processing time

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Tom's Hardware · 07/21/2026 05:30 EDT

Nvidia has just created an antidote to the virus that is AI misinformation. The company's new Synthetic Video Detector can help broadcasters assess 1080p footage at scale with processing times of just 22ms and up 92% accuracy for uncompressed videos. Read more ›

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The enduring paradox of the AI economy — models get better and more efficient, yet costs can still easily spiral out of control

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Tom's Hardware · 07/20/2026 15:35 EDT

Token amplification creates a paradox in the AI economy, as more capable models beget more complicated tasks. Read more ›

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Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China — first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company

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Tom's Hardware · 07/20/2026 14:13 EDT

Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a former TSMC deputy manager on Monday for allegedly copying 21 confidential documents. Read more ›

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New plugin unlocks granular VRAM temperature tracking on Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs — community cracks open Blackwell's forbidden telemetry sensors

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Tom's Hardware · 07/20/2026 13:48 EDT

Modders have discovered a method to monitor every single memory module on Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50-series (codenamed Blackwell) graphics cards. Read more ›

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