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Score an RTX 5070 prebuilt with a Ryzen 7 7700X & 16 GB of DDR5 for $650 off — Stack these promo codes to save on Skytech Gaming's high-end systems

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Tom's Hardware · 04/25/2026 15:42 EDT

You don't need to spend upwards of $1,500 to build and RTX 5070 system anymore as Skytech has two great prebuilts ready for you. Whether you're rocking a stealthy black setup or a minimal white one, the Shadow 5 and Archangel 5 are both ready to level it up. 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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Asus and Acer back online in Germany after patent dispute took them out — laptops and desktops still not available following injunction

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Tom's Hardware · 02/23/2026 17:48 EDT

Following a temporary injunction on sales, Asus and Acer have restored their German websites for sales and support. However, some products are still unavailable. Read more ›

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Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

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Tom's Hardware · 02/23/2026 16:27 EDT

Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude. Read more ›

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Portable USB DVD writer with 2.5-inch SATA and SD card dock slashed by 30% to $21 — optical drive can read and write CDs at 24X, and DVDs at 8X

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Tom's Hardware · 02/23/2026 13:56 EDT

Optical drives can still be handy in 2026, though desktop and PC laptop makers very rarely offer them. Here's a USB-attached device that is also a SATA dock, and more, for under $21. Read more ›

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Intel preps CPUs with 'Unified Core' architecture — job listing hints at evolution beyond Intel's hybrid design

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 02/23/2026 13:52 EDT

Intel's confirms 'Unified Cores' project in a job listing, but actual CPUs with these unified cores could be years away. Read more ›

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Hetzner hikes prices up to 37% starting April 1 — German data center giant cites rising hardware costs for price increases

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Tom's Hardware · 02/23/2026 13:43 EDT

German data center operator Hetzner announced today that it’s raising prices across its cloud, dedicated server, storage, and load balancer products starting April 1. Read more ›

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Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 02/23/2026 13:24 EDT

A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it'll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 and Intel's Nova Lake. Read more ›

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DDR5 RAM gets another fleeting discount, lowest price in months — Corsair's 32GB Vengeance kit is $329 at Woot

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Tom's Hardware · 02/23/2026 12:58 EDT

A 23% discount on Corsair Vengeance DDR5. Read more ›

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