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Memory bit flips cause up to 15% of Firefox crashes, asserts Mozilla engineer — figure inferred from 470,000 auto-submitted crash reports

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Tom's Hardware · 03/08/2026 06:00 EDT

A Mozilla engineer has shared survey data and calculations suggesting that up to 15% of Firefox crashes are due to a bit flip. Read more ›

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Linux hacked onto a PS5 to turn Sony's console into a Steam Machine — GTA V Enhanced Edition runs at 60 FPS on 1440pwith ray tracing

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 13:17 EDT

If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on it via Steam. The best part? It actually plays really well, without any issues. Read more ›

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Lock in the RTX 5070 for $599 before prices skyrocket even further — custom overclocked model is only $50 above MSRP

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 13:16 EDT

The RTX 5070 offers strong 1440p performance, 12GB of GDDR7 memory, and support for Nvidia’s latest features like DLSS 4 and Reflex 2. Read more ›

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Valve changes Steam Machine release date to this 'year,' second change as AI-fueled memory and shortage crisis deepens — official announcements went from "early 2026" to "first half of 2026" to "this year"

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 12:08 EDT

Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026. Read more ›

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Nintendo sues U.S. government over tariffs — Japanese videogame giant seeks 200 billion refund with interest

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 11:29 EDT

Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on March 6 in the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking a refund of tariffs it paid under President Donald Trump's executive orders. Read more ›

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AMD VP uses AI to create Radeon Linux userland driver in Python — senior AI engineer says he "didn't open the editor once"

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 11:07 EDT

AMD's VP of AI software vibe coded the driver entirely using Claude Code, but it's meant for testing, not for deployment to users. Read more ›

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Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners — tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 10:12 EDT

A software engineer gets access to 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners while tinkering with an idea to use a gamepad to control his robotic hoover. Gets $30,000 from DJI for an undisclosed discovery. Read more ›

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Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs and freeze hiring as AI data center bets ignite financial perfect storm — cuts in cloud division to be backfilled with AI

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 08:20 EDT

Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs, could freeze hiring for cloud division Read more ›

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Scientists attempt to link 3D printed ghost guns to specific filament brands with chemical fingerprinting — major filament makers often white-label products, complicating efforts

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 08:04 EDT

A new study investigates whether science can trace 3D printed “ghost guns” through chemical analysis of the filament used for printing. Read more ›

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Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 08:00 EDT

Over-eager developer has Claude Code Terraform his production setup, including database and its snapshots Read more ›

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Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share as sales of AMD Radeon graphics plummet to a historical low of 5 percent

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 07:40 EDT

Nvidia strengthens its position on the market of discrete GPUs as AMD's market share continues to dive, whereas Intel fails to gain traction. Read more ›

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Nvidia CEO Huang declares ‘I love constraints’ amid ongoing component shortage — claims lack of options forces AI clients to only choose the very best

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 07:20 EDT

In a scarce market, clients don't take risks and go with the biggest, most reliable option, which ultimately benefits Nvidia as it sits at the top of the AI boom. Unfortunately, these data center escapades hurt regular human beings, too, but that's not the trillion-dollar corporation's concern. Read more ›

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This shark case will take a megabyte out of your pocket — Cooler Master Shark X finally migrates to U.S. waters for $5,499

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 07:00 EDT

Cooler Master's Shark X mini-ITX case is finally available at U.S. retailers for $5,499.99. Read more ›

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Iranian drone strikes hit three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — Iran confirms it targeted Amazon cloud infrastructure

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 06:40 EDT

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated it targeted the Bahrain facility specifically because AWS hosts U.S. military workloads there. Read more ›

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Apple's 18-core M5 Max destroys 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench — GPU performance is much less impressive

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 06:20 EDT

Apple's M5 Max processor shows unexpectedly high results in multi-thread workloads: an 18-core CPU beats a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench, but the built-in GPU fails to beat the GeForce RTX 5090. Read more ›

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PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

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Tom's Hardware · 03/07/2026 06:00 EDT

Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000. Read more ›

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DDR5 RAM kits skyrocket to an astonishing $4,000 on Newegg with wild price listings on multiple G.Skill and Corsair products — various speeds and capacities all listed at the same eye-watering price

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Tom's Hardware · 03/06/2026 11:23 EDT

Newegg has raised the price of some Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory kits to $3,980; however, it's unclear whether this is a pricing blunder. Read more ›

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Motherboard buying advice for the PC building apocalypse — Our benchmarks, and years of testing, shows you where to save and when to spend

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Tom's Hardware · 03/06/2026 11:05 EDT

Match your board to your build, use case, and future plans to avoid bottlenecks and wasted upgrades. Spend smart now to prevent paying out more later, even with a budget motherboard. Read more ›

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Apple pulls $4,000 512GB Mac Studio upgrade option as AI RAM squeeze continues, raises 256GB upgrade price — M3 256GB upgrade now costs $2,000

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Tom's Hardware · 03/06/2026 09:44 EDT

The 512GB option, which was exclusive to the M3 Ultra chip and previously cost $4,000, no longer appears on Apple's configuration page. Read more ›

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AI creates jobs, data from bank survey shows — companies with wide AI deployments and investments are more likely to be hiring than those that don't

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Tom's Hardware · 03/06/2026 09:36 EDT

The fears over AI job market decimation may be overblown, according to economists working at the European Central Bank. A new report suggests that firms that make the most use of AI in Europe are also the largest job creators, hiring more people as productivity increases. Read more ›

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