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DJI sues the FCC over its prohibition on importing new foreign-made drones into the US — Chinese firm contests its placement on the regulator's 'covered list'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/25/2026 05:59 EDT

Following the FCC's decision last year to put DJI on its "Covered List' of blacklisted companies, the drone firm has just sued the agency. It argues that the import ban undermines the principles of a fair market, while denying Americans access to the latest technology. Read more ›

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Nvidia's N1/N1X chips leak once again, this time tipped for release in first half of 2026 — hotly-anticipated chips to reportedly debut on Dell and Lenovo laptops

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 11:17 EDT

After years of rumors and leaks, something feels different in the air as multiple reports are now pointing toward an actual, official launch for Nvidia's N1/N1X SoCs. These highly elusive chips have been in the works for years, have faced multiple delays, but the excitement for their release never died down. Read more ›

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US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 11:15 EDT

A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry's most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding China and Taiwan. Read more ›

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Qualcomm's 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment — Saudi Arabia's Humain takes delivery of 1,024 systems

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 11:09 EDT

Qualcomm's 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment Read more ›

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AI boosted US economy by 'basically zero' in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist — 'We think there's been a lot of misreporting of the impact that AI investment had on GDP growth'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 10:44 EDT

The U.S. economy isn't being propped up by AI investment, despite the common narrative. According to Goldman Sachs, despite hundreds of billions in investment announcements, AI has done little to uplift American financial interests. Read more ›

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ATABoy bridges old IDE drives to the 21st century with Open Source USB host bridge — powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350 and with custom "Award" BIOS menu

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 09:02 EDT

Using the power of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350, ATAboy bridges the hard drives of old, with the computers of today. Read more ›

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Save over $400 on this awesome Newegg combo with an AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D — just $849.99 for high-spec haul that comes with an MSI X870E Tomahawk and 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 08:47 EDT

Save $408 on this AM5 combo featuring the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, 32GB DDR5-6400, and MSI X870 Tomahawk motherboard—yours for only $849.99 at Newegg while the deal lasts. Read more ›

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Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 08:43 EDT

Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Read more ›

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Apple to produce Mac Minis in Houston for the first time — US chip sourcing tops 20 billion units

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 08:01 EDT

Apple announced that it will begin producing the Mac Mini in Houston, Texas later this year, marking the first time that the compact desktop has ever been manufactured in the United States. Read more ›

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AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 07:33 EDT

AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion. Read more ›

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Save $649 by buying 64GB of DDR5-6000 G.Skill RAM with an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU — Newegg will even throw in a free Cooler Master CPU cooler to sweeten the deal

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 07:28 EDT

Pair an MSI Shadow RTX 5070 graphics card with 64GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 Memory for $1,049.99 - Newegg combo deal strikes again. Read more ›

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AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 07:20 EDT

Meta's AI Director of Alignment asked OpenClaw to clean up her inbox, only for the AI agent to nuke everything inside. Read more ›

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Score a massive $350 saving on an AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 32GB of DDR5 RAM, now just $650 — epic Newegg combo matches the world’s fastest gaming CPU with high-speed memory for your next gaming PC build

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 07:14 EDT

Another brilliant Newegg combo deal has combined the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 32GB of V-Color DDR5-6400 RAM, all for just $650, saving you a whopping $348.99 in the process. Read more ›

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ASML makes breakthrough in EUV chipmaking tech, plans to increase speed by 50% by 2030 — new 1,000-watt light source fires three lasers at 100,000 tin droplets every second

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 07:01 EDT

ASML to use a new CO2 laser system and tin droplet generator to increase EUV light source performance to 1000W and lithography tool productivity to 330 wafers per hour in 2030 and beyond. Read more ›

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Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, which sends 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 07:00 EDT

IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling Read more ›

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Optical device beams data at speeds up to 25 Gbps via light, up to 25 kilometer range with ultra-low latency — Taara Beam uses silicon photonics technology, device about as big as a shoebox

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 06:40 EDT

The Taara Beam offers a fiber-like connection without the hassle of acquiring right-of-way and laying cable. It delivers up 25 Gbps of throughput with ultra-low latency at a range of up to 10 km. Read more ›

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218-pound PC built inside a cast-iron Victorian radiator — cooling an RTX 5090 'probably out of the question'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 06:26 EDT

Cast-iron Victorian radiator gaming PC build finalized and tested by Billet Labs. Read more ›

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OpenAI couldn’t finance its data centers, so it took control of the hardware instead — company's chip design aspirations lag behind Google and Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 06:21 EDT

OpenAI spent much of 2025 trying to build its own AI data centers, only to find that it couldn’t secure financing on competitive terms. Read more ›

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Amateur burglar steals three GPUs worth $11,000 from computer shop in Korea — thief broke in using a drill hammer and walked out with only 3 cards

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 06:20 EDT

A thief in South Korea fled with two RTX 5090s and an RTX 5080 when he broke into a local computer shop. Instead of going for maximum potential gains and picking up RAM, he valued high-ticket items that would sell quickly. The police are already looking for the suspect, but the shop owner promises to show leniency if the items are simply returned. Read more ›

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NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches

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Tom's Hardware · 02/24/2026 06:00 EDT

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip was used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. But now that it's been retired from service, NASA engineers found another use for this relatively powerful chip. Read more ›

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