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Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:45 EDT

Ancient 6 MHz ‘PDP11 can train a neural network’ says veteran dev. Read more ›

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Half of all US employees now use artificial intelligence at work, crossing landmark threshold for first time — Gallup data shows daily and weekly usage hitting all-time high of 28% in Q1 2026, with 65% feeling positive about its impact on productivity

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:40 EDT

50% of American adults in employment use AI at least once a year, with 28% using it daily or weekly, according to a new Gallup survey. While AI-focused companies are seeing huge disruption, 65% of those employees felt positive about its individual impact on their productivity. Read more ›

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China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade — $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:20 EDT

Semiconductor industrial policy spending in China totaled around $142 billion between 2014 and 2023, roughly 3.6 times higher than the $39 billion committed in the United States over the same period. Read more ›

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FAA approves military use of drone-killing laser weapons in US airspace — decision comes after it was decided ‘systems do not present an increased risk to the flying public’

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:00 EDT

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to give carte blanche approval to the military’s use of laser weaponry to shoot down suspected errant drones in US airspace. Read more ›

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Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 05:52 EDT

Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously. Read more ›

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Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 15:55 EDT

Voters in Festus, MO ousted half of the city's council members following the approval of a $6 billion data center project. Read more ›

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New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 14:42 EDT

Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor's individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation. Read more ›

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Intel's Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne — early leak points to up to 52 cores, blazing DDR5-8000 support, and massive 175W TDP

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 13:17 EDT

VideoCardz shares the alleged preliminary SKU list for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 400S (codenamed Nova Lake) processors. Read more ›

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Acer Predator GX850 SFX power supply review: Solid electrical performance with good efficiency

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 09:00 EDT

Solid engineering from FSP delivers reliable power in compact form, though pricing and acoustics present practical challenges. Read more ›

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NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over 'predatory' Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement — in-debt customers to get up to $5,000 of relief, eligible renters to be granted ownership

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 08:41 EDT

The company allegedly engaged in just about every kind of deceptive business practice possible, and even targeted children. Read more ›

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Bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel dubbed the ‘Superdome’ lowers temps by 20 degrees — $600 worth of Noctua fans arrayed in 3D-printed structure

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 08:13 EDT

A TechTuber has constructed a bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel as a cooling experiment. It seems to do a good job. Read more ›

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Approvals for Nvidia and AMD AI chip exports to China stall under government bottleneck — 20% staff turnover hobbles Bureau of Industry and Security

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 08:02 EDT

Staffing at the U.S. Commerce Department office that vets exports of Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators has collapsed over the past year. Read more ›

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Espresso Lite 15 Review: An entry-level portable monitor with a splash of color

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 08:00 EDT

The Lite 15 is the new entry-level portable monitor from Espresso, and it’s dressed for the occasion. Read more ›

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Save a massive $700 on this 4K-ready HP gaming PC with a 9800X3D and RTX 5070 Ti, now just $2,499 — discounted HP Omen 35L pre-built powerhouse ships with 32GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 07:42 EDT

Save a massive $700 on this epic HP Omen 45L gaming rig, fitted with a 9800X3D, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for just $2,499.99. Read more ›

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'CopprLink' destroys every eGPU standard in new test, achieves near-native-level performance with an RTX 5090 — setup requires $2,300 worth of additional hardware

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 07:20 EDT

An RTX 5090 plugged into this eGPU using the CopprLink standard was able to get essentially the same level of performance as the GPU directly plugged into the motherboard. The setup requires a $1,300 enclosure and a $1,000 adapter card, and it's only meant for enterprise markets, but it shows what the future of eGPUs could be for consumers. Read more ›

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Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 07:09 EDT

A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site's backup quota. Read more ›

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Why we spent 50+ hours retesting Intel’s Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 07:00 EDT

Although we’ve known for a long time that Intel planned to refresh its Arrow Lake CPUs, the 270K Plus and 250K Plus still posted results that were difficult to believe during our review period. Read more ›

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Just $284.99 for 32GB of Team T-Create Classic DDR5-6000 RAM is the cheapest going right now — this double-dipping deal saves $145 off the list price

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 06:50 EDT

Score the cheapest 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory on the market with this $284 Newegg deal. Dual discounts knock a massive $145 off the list price. Read more ›

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Friends GIF cripples website discussion platform backup with 377 gigabytes of Rachel's 'happy dance' — 1.6MB animation was replicated 246,173 times, breaking filesystem limit

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 06:37 EDT

A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site's backup quota. Read more ›

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Grab MSI’s RTX 5080 gaming laptop for just over $2,000 — offers fast 240 Hz QHD+ display, dual storage slots, and expandable DDR5 memory

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Tom's Hardware · 04/12/2026 13:07 EDT

Combining a 240Hz QHD+ display, Core Ultra 9 CPU, and RTX 5080 GPU, this deal offers high-end performance at a relatively competitive price point Read more ›

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