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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

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Tom's Hardware · 07/18/2026 13:48 EDT

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously. Read more ›

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Windows security hole allows attackers to install malware via Wi-Fi — new patch plugs gaping vulnerability

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 09:23 EDT

In its June 'Patch Tuesday' release, Microsoft addressed 49 security vulnerabilities in its products, including one that could allow an attacker to deliver malware onto a PC over Wi-Fi. Read more ›

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AMD updates 3D V-Cache optimizer driver ahead of Ryzen 9000X3D launch

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 09:10 EDT

AMD appears to have updated its 3D V-Cache driver for Ryzen 9000X3D. Read more ›

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MediaTek reportedly preps Arm processors for Windows laptop — will arrive as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 09:06 EDT

Three sources have indicated that MediaTek is working on a Windows-on-Arm SoC to compete with Qualcomm. Read more ›

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Startup claims it can boost any processor's performance by 100X — Flow Computing introduces its 'CPU 2.0' architecture

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 06/12/2024 08:55 EDT

Flow Computing, a spinout from Finland’s acclaimed VTT Technical Research Center, says its Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) can enable '100X Improved performance for any CPU architecture.' Read more ›

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The coolest case mods of Computex 2024

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 08:00 EDT

From battle robots to beer and coffee servers, these chassis wowed us. Read more ›

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Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2P 240 Hz 4K OLED gaming monitor review: High style, high performance

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 08:00 EDT

Gigabyte’s Aorus FO32U2P brings premium style and high performance to the desktop. With an 4K OLED panel running at 240 Hz, it serves up Adaptive-Sync, HDR and wide gamut color. It’s stunning in every respect. Read more ›

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Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman one day after criticizing Apple for using ChatGPT

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 07:38 EDT

Elon Musk withdrew his suit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman one day before a San Francisco court was due to hear it. Read more ›

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Amazon Web Services introduces an 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 06:15 EDT

AWS ups the ante once more. Read more ›

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Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days

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Tom's Hardware · 06/12/2024 05:59 EDT

Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound cold box from the Ohio River to its new fab near Columbus. This load is one of the largest of Intel's approximately 20 super loads making their way across the state. Read more ›

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White House seeks to restrict China’s access to GAA chip technology and the high bandwidth memory that's critical for AI accelerators

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 15:53 EDT

China cannot buy chips using GAA technology because of current sanctions but might be able to produce them with older process nodes. To prevent that, the U.S. government is mulling more restrictions. Read more ›

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You can use a full-sized GPU with ASRock's new Mini PC — DeskMate X600 only for China, priced at roughly $193 USD

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 14:12 EDT

The ASRock DeskMate X600 rounds out ASRock's current Mini PC lineup with a top-mounted PCIe slot intended for use with full-speed graphics cards — size doesn't matter when the card's not inside the case. Read more ›

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Nvidia Blackwell and GeForce RTX 50-Series GPUs: Rumors, specifications, release dates, pricing, and everything we know (updated)

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 13:44 EDT

Nvidia's Blackwell architecture is on the horizon, set to power the RTX 50-series graphics cards. We've gathered together what we've heard as well as rumors of what to expect from the next generation GPUs, including potential specs and release dates. Here's everything we know about Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Read more ›

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Inside Micro Center's new North Carolina superstore

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 13:33 EDT

My first trip to a Micro Center was like being a kid in a candy shop Read more ›

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Unexpected Intel military chip contract drained $3 billion from CHIPS Act, Senate mulls auction to restore funds

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 13:30 EDT

The U.S. Senate is looking for ways to increase CHIPS Act funding after the Pentagon pulled out of its $2.5 billion commitment to the 'Secure Enclave' project for building defense chips. Read more ›

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Nvidia will increase shader counts but not ROPS on RTX 50-series GPUs — except on the lowest tier GB207, according to leak

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 13:16 EDT

Nvidia's Blackwell gaming-oriented GPU architecture will reportedly not boast any additional render output units compared with Ada Lovelace, according to a leaker. Nvidia will be relying on the Blackwell architecture itself to provide performance improvements, which can of course be designed to work around potential ROPS limitations. Read more ›

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Netgear's latest Wi-Fi 7 routers cost less and pack fewer features — but don't call them cheap

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 12:26 EDT

The Orbi 770 and Nighthawk RS300 seriously undercut earlier Netgear Wi-Fi 7 offerings in pricing Read more ›

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AMD RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards get a new game bundle — get Company of Heroes 3 and Lies of P for 'free' with your new GPU

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 12:15 EDT

AMD's latest game bundle for its RX 7800XT and RX 7700XT graphics cards provides two free game codes with your GPU purchase. Pick from Company of Heroes 3, Lies of P, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Starfield — from participating retailers. Read more ›

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Single-line Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 11:11 EDT

Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. Read more ›

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Musk says he'll ban all Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at the OS level — claims it would represent a massive security risk

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 10:55 EDT

Elon claims that Apple has no clue what OpenAI will do it users' data after it processes their requests. Read more ›

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AMD's Ryzen 9000 won't beat the previous-gen X3D models in gaming, but they'll be close — improved 3D V-Cache coming, too

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Tom's Hardware · 06/11/2024 10:17 EDT

AMD says its new Ryzen 9000 chips won't be faster in gaming than the previous-gen X3D models but says big improvements are coming to its 3D V-Cache tech. Read more ›

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