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President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 07/24/2025 07:30 EDT

President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before. Read more ›

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Act fast and grab a Nintendo Switch 2 from Walmart or Best Buy before they are gone

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 11:16 EDT

If you act quickly, you can grab the latest Nintendo Switch 2 game console at MSRP, while stocks last. Read more ›

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Microsoft says China-based hackers exploiting critical SharePoint vulnerabilities to deploy Warlock ransomware — three China-affiliated threat actors seen taking advantage

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 11:09 EDT

Microsoft said that critical vulnerabilities in SharePoint are being exploited by a potentially China-linked threat actor, Storm-2603, to deploy ransomware. Read more ›

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First AMD Strix Halo handheld gaming PC confirmed — GPD teases Ryzen AI Max+ 395 handheld in performance video

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 10:11 EDT

GPD has teased an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-powered handheld. Read more ›

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Tech industry layoffs hit 100,000 for 2025 — Intel leading the pack with over 12,000 personnel cut, so far

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 09:23 EDT

Intel has laid off 12,000 positions all over the globe, Microsoft has cut 10,000 workers, and Meta has reduced its workforce by 8,000 people. Read more ›

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Logitech's MX Master 3S productivity mouse is close to all-time low pricing at Amazon — the perfect mouse for back-to-school shoppers

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 08:11 EDT

Close to its all-time low price, Logitech's MX Master 3S productivity mouse is marked down to just £72 Read more ›

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Samsung 990 Pro SSD cooling tested: efficient, with low temps

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 08:00 EDT

We investigate cooling Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD to see how it differs from other SSDs in its cooling needs. Read more ›

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AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are more expensive, but worth it — costs 'more than 5% but less than 20%' higher than Taiwan-sourced alternative

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 07:50 EDT

AMD expects to receive TSMC-made chips by late 2025. Read more ›

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Someone cooled AMD's $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with a BMW M4 radiator and some fans from a Toyota Highlander — 1,200 liters per minute pump still can't match liquid nitrogen, though

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 07:37 EDT

Geekerwan tested an AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU cooled by a BMW M4 radiator and pump. Read more ›

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President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 07/24/2025 07:30 EDT

President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before. Read more ›

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Next-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss in challenging conditions

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 06:00 EDT

Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) aims to improve wireless reliability by 25% in throughput, latency, and packet loss under difficult conditions. Read more ›

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Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request — told 'Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 05:30 EDT

A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device. Read more ›

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Hyte rolls back MSRPs on its cases for the first time since tariff announcements — some products return to pre-tariff pricing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 05:00 EDT

Hyte is lowering the prices for the Y40, Y60, and Y70 cases to pre-tariff levels, while the Y70 Touch Infinite gets $40 off its old price. Read more ›

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Trump announces 'AI Action Plan' for the United States government — policy roadmap seeks to accelerate adoption of AI tools and spur infrastructure buildout in the race for global dominance

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 20:38 EDT

This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy. Read more ›

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GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 14:26 EDT

GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050. Read more ›

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Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 12:58 EDT

Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute — equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs — within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of power. Read more ›

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UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations — targets 'public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 10:41 EDT

The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments. Read more ›

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Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo Review: Color to the Max

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 09:00 EDT

Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo succeeds where others disappoint. Read more ›

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Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 08:30 EDT

Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power. Read more ›

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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 is the current top 96GB memory kit for AMD CPUs — Trident Z5 Neo RGB C26 2x48GB Review

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 08:00 EDT

The Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26 is a new kit from G.Skill that targets AMD systems; however, can it beat the other enthusiast memory kits on the market? Read more ›

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Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hearted

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 07:38 EDT

This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts. Read more ›

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