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Advanced Pentagon laser weapon shot down party balloons by mistake, says report — airport shut down after Customs and Border Protection mistakenly believed it was targeting Mexican cartel drones

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:20 EDT

A frighteningly farcical series of events involving laser weaponry, the FAA, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Pentagon has been retold by a trio of insiders talking to the WSJ. Read more ›

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M5Stack AI Pyramid charms with translucent, RGB infused tetrahedral shell and $199 price tag — but it is far more of an edge-AI appliance than a mini-PC

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:05 EDT

IoT specialist M5Stack has released an affordable, alluring, translucent, RGB-infused, tetrahederal mini-PC dubbed the AI Pyramid Computing Box. Read more ›

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DXRacer Martian Pro Red Triangle review: Built for the fans

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:00 EDT

The DXRacer Martian Pro is packed to the brim with features, and it comes with a price tag to match. But if you have the cash to burn, you’ll come out the other side a happy customer. Read more ›

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Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report — overall Annualized Failure Rate drops to 1.36%, 21 percentage points lower than last year

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 07:57 EDT

Backblaze just released its annual drive reliability report, with the company getting a 1.36% annualized failure rate for 2025. It says that this is its best result since 2022. Read more ›

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Living neurons integrated into modern AI processing, claims SF startup — biological computing power used to boost computer vision, generative video, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 07:20 EDT

Startup raises $25m to boost its biological neuron-driven pathway to replace, or augment, silicon compute in AI. Read more ›

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MakerWorld launches Copyright Protection Program to help 3D designers fight stolen files being resold online — stamping out knockoffs is priority number one

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 07:00 EDT

The Bambu Lab MakerWorld Copyright Protection Program is a free service for MakerWorld Exclusive Designs and will fight IP infringement on any platform. Read more ›

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Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 06:40 EDT

An open-source Rust-based app teleports real-time ASCII art-based weather animations into your terminal backdrop. Read more ›

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Notorious 'Archive Today' website allegedly leads bizarre DDoS campaign against security blogger — Wikipedia considers removing all links to the Archive

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 06:20 EDT

Wikipedia may remove links to Archive Today due to DDoS spat Read more ›

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Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset — driver removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 02/15/2026 06:00 EDT

Linux kernel 7.0 does away with 440BX EDAC driver Read more ›

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Tiny Mac look-a-like alarm clock transformed to run real Mac software

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 05:00 EDT

A vintage technology enthusiast has turned a miniature Mac-a-like desk toy alarm clock into a real Mac software running computer. Read more ›

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Save $700 on this gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti & Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU — Get MSI's Vector 16 featuring a 240Hz 1600p display for just $1,299 at President's Day sale

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 14:38 EDT

MSI has put its Vector 16 gaming laptop on sale for just $1,299 at Walmart, offering a 35% discount for a beastly hardware combo. You get a Ryzen 9 8940HX, an RTX 5070 Ti, 16 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB SSD, all backed up with a 90Wh battery. As far as RTX 5070 Ti laptops go, it has never gotten any cheaper. Read more ›

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Unbeatable Presidents Day deal slashes $580 off powerful OLED RTX 5080 Lenovo Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop - comes armed with 64GB of memory and 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 14:31 EDT

Lenovo's Legion 7i Pro Gen 10 is 18% off ahead of Presidents Day, dropping its price all the way down to just $2,619.99. Read more ›

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"Like new" Ryzen 9 9900X3D Amazon order turns into a shocking CPU bait-and-switch scandal — shopper duped in outrageous Ryzen 9 3900X scam

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 13:10 EDT

To save a few bucks, someone ordered a used Ryzen 9 9900X3D worth $530 from Amazon but received a $150 Ryzen 9 3900X instead. The CPU had been replaced inside the box to deceive any inspection and was likely resold to the unlucky buyer, who ended up getting much less valuable silicon than they paid for. Read more ›

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Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 11:55 EDT

Acer's and Asus's use of HEVC on their laptops and desktop PCs is allegedly infringing on Nokia's patent. Because of this, a German court ruled that they cannot sell their products in Germany until the matter is settled. Read more ›

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Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 11:08 EDT

Sony is offering PlayStation 5 hardware for rent to customers in the UK. The selection includes PS5 consoles, controllers, PSVR 2, and even the PlayStation Portal. The cheapest offer starts from £9.50 per month for a base PS5 Slim, with leases for 12, 24, or 36 months. You can also pay a flat £19.50/month to get the console on a rolling basis with no commitments. Read more ›

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Enthusiast scores watercooled dual Nvidia GTX Titan X GPUs for $86 — $1,000 older flagship graphics card with custom water cooling for a bargain

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 10:34 EDT

These dual Nvidia GTX Titan X GPUs in SLI are a solid upgrade for the user's current GTX 1650 GPU, provided they can make it work. Read more ›

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Intel fined $3 million by India’s antitrust regulator over discriminatory CPU warranty policy — says Intel abused its dominant position in the boxed processor market.

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 10:17 EDT

Following a complaint filed in 2016, the Competition Commission of India concluded that Intel’s India-only warranty rules were discriminatory compared to policies in other countries. Read more ›

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President's Day GPU bonanza brings RTX 5060 Ti 8GB back to $379 MSRP — score a Blackwell GPU at MSRP, and get a free 650W power supply

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 08:59 EDT

While the 8GB VRAM does impose limits at higher settings and resolutions, MSI’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB makes sense for 1080p gaming. Read more ›

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Ponzi schemer behind $201 million Bitcoin scam sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — promised 3% daily returns on Bitcoin investments, left investors reeling

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 07:40 EDT

BTC Ponzi scheme yields 20 years in prison for mastermind Read more ›

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7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive

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Tom's Hardware · 02/14/2026 07:20 EDT

7x DRAM price jump affecting ISP routers, gateways, and STBs Read more ›

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