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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

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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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Dirty Frag exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo broken

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 20:17 EDT

Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available Read more ›

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AMD announces MI350P PCIe AI accelerator card with 144GB of HBM3E — roughly 40% faster in FP16 and FP8 theoretical compute compared to Nvidia's H200 NVL competitor

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 15:07 EDT

AMD launches a new MI350P PCIe AI-accelerator card with half the cores and memory of its flagship Instinct MI355X GPU. The new card provides customers with a drop-in upgrade solution for existing air-cooled servers. Read more ›

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White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 13:53 EDT

The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release. Read more ›

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Lian Li’s new DK07 Wood motorized standing desk doubles as a dual-PC chassis with support for E-ATX systems and massive cooling setups — five new wood-finished models are available now

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 11:23 EDT

The updated version adds a dark walnut finish while retaining support for dual systems, large GPUs, and extensive cooling setups. Read more ›

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 10:48 EDT

The combined sales of the four biggest motherboard manufacturers are expected to fall by at least 28% in 2026, with the entire industry selling 11.7 million less units due to increasing PC component costs. Read more ›

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Now 15% off, Razer's fantastic Basilisk V3 Pro wireless mouse with 30K DPI sensor is reduced to clear in this limited deal — 30K DPI sensor, optical switches, and long battery life for only $84

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 09:19 EDT

Grab 15% off the fantastic Razer Bailisk V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse at Woot in this limited clearance sale. Read more ›

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Intel Core Ultra 5 225 review: Arrow Lake’s forgotten CPU needs a price cut

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 09:00 EDT

Intel’s Core Ultra 5 225 has been swept under the rug, given the disappointing debut of Arrow Lake, but with a slight price adjustment, it could be a compelling CPU. Read more ›

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Musk's SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer's 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Antrhropic also interested in orbital data centers

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 08:19 EDT

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter's massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power. Read more ›

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Save $1,100 on this powerful gaming rig with Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, Intel 14900KF, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage — ABS Stratos Aqua on deep discount

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 08:04 EDT

Score the potent ABS Stratos Aqua ready-to-game prebuilt with i9-14900KF and RTX 5070 Ti for just $2,175. Read more ›

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Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 07:54 EDT

Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it's not liable for any piracy that its users might do. Read more ›

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After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 07:42 EDT

Backlash now covers county resolutions, bipartisan state legislation, and a regional water authority refusing to serve proposed facilities. Read more ›

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High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 07:00 EDT

As data center demand surges toward zettabyte scale, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital are pursuing sharply different technology strategies in their pursuit towards 100TB and beyond. Read more ›

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GameNative adds multi-frame generation to PC games on Android devices, unlocking up to 100 fps gameplay — Vulkan version of Lossless Scaling boosts performance

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 06:45 EDT

GameNative's latest update brings Lossless Scaling's multi-frame generation technology to Android devices. Enabling a triple-digit FPS experience from a 30 FPS base frame rate. Read more ›

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College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains — 19 years without crypto key rotation ends in predictable result as hacker sails through 7 layers of protection

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 06:20 EDT

College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains Read more ›

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Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 06:15 EDT

Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue. Read more ›

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Save nearly $300 on AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Asus Prime RTX 5070 bundle, plus an 850W PSU — score the core components to a new gaming rig for only $940

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 06:04 EDT

Pick up a 9850X3D, RTX 5070, 850W PSU, and a copy of Capcom's Pragmata game for just $940 Read more ›

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Startup successfully tests 3D-printed rocket fuel that could enable lighter missiles and faster production rates — new additive manufacturing process tested at 1,800 PSI

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Tom's Hardware · 05/07/2026 06:00 EDT

Chromatic 3D Materials has successfully tested 3D-printed rocket propellant capable of withstanding 1,800 PSI combustion pressures, potentially paving the way for faster rocket production, more advanced thrust geometries, and resilient distributed defense manufacturing. Read more ›

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PCI-SIG reveals PCIe 8.0 0.5v spec — first draft includes 1 TB/s bandwidth and new connector technology

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Tom's Hardware · 05/06/2026 15:03 EDT

PCI-SIG announces availability of the first PCIe Gen8 draft, reassures 256 GT/s data transfer rate, maintains backwards compatibility, evaluates new connector technology. Read more ›

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans

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Tom's Hardware · 05/06/2026 13:51 EDT

Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft. Read more ›

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Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%

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Tom's Hardware · 05/06/2026 13:13 EDT

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production. Read more ›

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