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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/19/2026 06:00 EDT

A 16-year-old intern helped Netgear catch scammers in India for $800 โ€” Culprits would pose as Netgear employees & sell fake support packages to customers

After scammers were successfully able to phish their way through Netgear customers for months, the company was forced to adopt a more unconventional cybersecurity measure: a 16-year-old intern named Wyatt. He was able to eventually lead the law firm to the source bank accounts of these scammers back in India. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 11:41 EDT

Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering โ€” Nvidia scores clean sweep in blind test of six titles

In a new blind test featuring six different games, users heavily preferred the image quality of DLSS 4.5 and crowned it as the best against FSR 4 and native rendering. Nvidia walked away with 48.2% of all votes, with native rendering scoring 24% and FSR coming in third place with 15% of the tally. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 11:20 EDT

AI hyperscalers move to secure long-term uranium supply from mining companies โ€” fuel required for nuclear plants to power future data centers

This deal will help AI hyperscalers secure the fuel they need for SMRs, avoiding getting hit by a shortage if demand spikes due to the massive power requirements of future data centers. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 10:12 EDT

Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI so far despite billions in investment, survey suggests โ€” 6,000 executives also reveal 1/3 of leaders use AI, but only for 90 minutes a week

A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology themselves for just 1.5 hours per week. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 09:24 EDT

Nvidia sells off final Arm shares, but licensing deals will continue โ€” $140 million stake sold, equating to 1.1 million shares

Nvidia has sold off the last of its shares in Arm Holdings, some six years after it attempted to buy the company outright for $40 billion, but was stopped by EU and UK regulators. The sale amounts to 1.1 million shares worth an estimated $140 million dollars. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 07:12 EDT

Save $600 on this RTX 5080-powered Alienware gaming PC, down to its best price in months โ€” just $2,399.99 for 4K-capable rig equipped with a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD

This Alienware Aurora pre-built gaming PC is back down to near-Black Friday pricing right now, scoring you an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU, 24-core Intel Core Ultra 285 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for just $2,399.99, saving you a huge 20%. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 06:40 EDT

$1,000 bought an RTX 5080 in November 2025, now it only buys an RTX 5070 Ti โ€” report shows 15% average global price hike across Nvidia, AMD & Intel GPUs

Nvidia's RTX 5090 is the most overpriced GPU in the world, selling at 65% above its MSRP while AMD's RX 9070 XT saw the smallest price hike of just 7% worldwide. India has been hit the worse with extreme price surges, while Australia has been largely stable. On average, GPUs are now 15% more expensive around the world. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/18/2026 06:20 EDT

Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow โ€” company sees perf-per-watt improvements of up to 2X in some CPU workloads

As part of a broad partnership announced today, Nvidia says Meta will deploy its Arm-powered Grace server CPUs as standalone platforms in production data centers to boost performance-per-watt in certain workloads. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/17/2026 15:56 EDT

AMD denies report of MI455X delays as Nvidia VR200 systems are rumored to arrive early โ€” company says Helios systems 'on target for 2H 2026'

AMD's Helios rack-scale solution based on the MI455X accelerators, the company's major hope for AI market, may slip to 2027, whereas Nvidia may speed up roll out of the Vera Rubin platform if the latest market rumors are to be believed. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/17/2026 13:53 EDT

High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 โ€” YouTuber gets 2020's hottest PC game running at playable frame rates on Red Magic 11 Pro

Cyberpunk 2077 may have required a powerful gaming PC to enjoy at its 2020 release, but YouTuber ETA Prime has shown that the game can now be played on a high-end smartphone with decent performance with x86 emulation. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/17/2026 12:07 EDT

New report shows RAM prices are continuing to fall in Germany, U.S. trends less certain โ€” SSDs and HDDs are more expensive than ever

Memory prices have stabilized in Germany, with some kits even experiencing price cuts over the past month, showing decent progress towards normalization. They're still over 300% more expensive than they were five months ago, though. In contrast, HDDs and SSDs have become more expensive, and their prices continue to rise. Read more โ€บ

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Tom's Hardware ยท 02/17/2026 12:06 EDT

OpenAI hires 'genius' OpenClaw creator, but popular AI assistant will remain open source โ€” Sam Altman says creator will work on 'smart agents' in new role

OpenAI has hired the creator of popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw, but has decided to keep the project open source. Despite its old Claude-inspired name, Anthropic threatened Steinberger with legal action ahead of multiple name changes. Read more โ€บ

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