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01.06.2026 − 07.06.2026

AMD B650 expansion cards hit retail starting at $199 — add four M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots and 11 USB ports to any PC with a PCIe slot

Tom's Hardware · 06/06/2026 12:29 EDT

A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion. Read more ›

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Commodore Amiga-emulating TheA1200 retro computer delayed nearly half a year by ‘global chip shortages’ — Retro Games Ltd says it will use the extra time to finesse the software

Tom's Hardware · 05/09/2026 07:00 EDT

The A1200 has been delayed nearly half a year due to 'global chip shortages' and is now scheduled for release on December 4. Read more ›

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Supermicro-tied execs used Thailand government entity to ship Nvidia AI GPUs to China — report alleges Chinese web giant Alibaba received restricted servers

Tom's Hardware · 05/09/2026 06:40 EDT

A network to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI hardware has been found: it shipped to Alibaba, among other destinations. Read more ›

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Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

Tom's Hardware · 05/09/2026 06:20 EDT

A grey-market economy of API proxy services in China is reselling access to Anthropic's Claude models at as little as 10% of the official price. Read more ›

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Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996

Tom's Hardware · 05/09/2026 06:00 EDT

Linux mascot Tux the penguin was first conceptualized by Linus Torvalds on this day in 1996. Read more ›

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Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 14:09 EDT

Intel and Apple have reportedly reached a deal in which the former will manufacture chips for the latter. Read more ›

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Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 starting in September — Console will soon cost $499, but you can avoid the price hike if you buy now

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 11:14 EDT

The price hikes have come for the last remaining current-gen console, as Nintendo has just announced that it'll make the Switch 2 more expensive in various regions around the world. America is getting a $50 bump this September, while Japan will see similar increases by the end of this month. Even Switch Online subscriptions will become costlier. Read more ›

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North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 10:37 EDT

Two Americans have been sentenced to prison for helping North Korean operatives infiltrate nearly 70 US companies through fraudulent remote IT jobs, enabling overseas access to company laptops via RDP and generating over $1.2 million for the regime. Read more ›

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Maingear MG-1 (2026) review: Fast and clean, for a price

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 09:00 EDT

The Maingear MG-1 offers a super-clean build in case with personalization options, but the front panel could use some more ports. Read more ›

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Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026'

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 08:54 EDT

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s. Read more ›

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AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 08:31 EDT

More jurisdictions across the United States have been enacting a data center ban, with the total number of active bans reaching 50 as of April 2026. Read more ›

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Testing the top Thunderbolt 5 docks with up to 140W Power Delivery, 10 GbE, and even internal M.2 SSD slots — Razer, CalDigit, Hyper, Ivanky, and WAVLINK go head-to-head

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 08:00 EDT

We’ve tested the top Thunderbolt 5 docks on the market, combining six into one battle for the crown. Read more ›

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Save $444 on a stellar gaming PC combo with Asus Prime RTX 5070, Ryzen 9850X3D, X870E motherboard, and 32GB of RAM — world's fastest gaming CPU meets copious amount of RAM

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 07:46 EDT

Newegg’s latest combo deal packs AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, an Asus X870E motherboard, RTX 5070 graphics card, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM into a nearly complete AM5 gaming PC for just $1,494.99 - a massive $444 off Read more ›

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The Middle East had everything data center builders and hyperscalers could wish for — then the Iran war happened

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 07:46 EDT

The Middle East has been a hotspot for investment into data centers, with multiple large projects in planning, attracting wide global investment. But that belief has been shaken by the disruption within the region after Israel and the United States launched their first attempt to decapitate the Iranian regime. Read more ›

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Save $575 off this stellar gaming PC armed with a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 memory — $1424.99 ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC prebuilt costs less than some of its parts

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 07:22 EDT

A 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM are highlights of this great value ABS Flux II Aqua prebuilt gaming PC. Read more ›

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Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment against his business

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 07:11 EDT

Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against his employees by people against the proposed Box Elder County data center. Read more ›

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SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 07:02 EDT

The offers go well beyond standard long-term supply agreements. Read more ›

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Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 07:00 EDT

Hard drives are so expensive now that archival efforts are being hurt as a result of the AI boom snatching all production lines. Organizations like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive are just about keeping up with the rising costs, but individual preservationists have given up for the time being. This is all on top of websites blocking scraping bots because of AI. Read more ›

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Google's DeepMind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online — Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations

Tom's Hardware · 05/08/2026 06:40 EDT

Google will leverage data from one of the most complex and multi-layered sci-fi RPGs to train its AI, as DeepMind begins training in Eve Online. Read more ›

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