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Intel challenges AMD’s handheld dominance with new Arc G3 chips — Panther Lake silicon brings up to 14 cores, Arc B390 graphics to handhelds

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 09:10 EDT

Intel has revealed the Arc G3 and G3 Extreme chips, which are built on Panther Lake dies with up to an Arc B390 iGPU. The chips will show up in devices from partners like Acer and OneXPlayer. Read more ›

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Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API — claim FROST attack requires no permissions or user interaction to identify which apps and websites you're using

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 09:10 EDT

FROST exploits the Origin Private File System (OPFS), a browser API that lets websites create and store files on a user's local disk. Read more ›

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon C Platform for $300 and up laptops — Windows on Arm and NPUs for the budget market

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 09:02 EDT

Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon C Platform today in the runup to Computex 2026. The Snapdragon C (Compute) Platform will power budget laptops designed to compete in the the $300 range, and features a processor based on a new variant of its Kryo chip architecture that was originally designed for mobile phones. Read more ›

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Acer and Qualcomm take on MacBook Neo with first Snapdragon C laptop – Aspire Go 15 delivers 512GB SSD and 8GB of RAM at ‘entry-tier price’

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 09:00 EDT

The first Snapdragon C-powered laptop, the Aspire Go 15, delivers 512GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, plus a good collection of ports for a still-undisclosed ‘entry-tier price point.’ Read more ›

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Asus ROG Crosshair 2006 motherboard review: 20 years of ROG

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 09:00 EDT

The ROG Crosshair 2006 is a premium mid-range AM5 board with retro flair, robust power delivery, dual LAN, Wi-Fi 7, and five M.2 sockets – but the limited run and nostalgia premium is the real reason you might want to spend $100 more over the similar Dark Hero. Read more ›

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Acer brings Intel Arc B390 graphics to Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld – G3 Extreme CPU paired with segment-first metal fan for increased airflow

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 09:00 EDT

Acer's Atlas 8 takes on AMD’s dominance in the space with the new Intel Arc G3 and G3 Extreme processors, packing Arc B370 or B390 iGPUs. Read more ›

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At 48% off, this $21 TP-Link Ethernet Switch is the perfect upgrade for 4K streaming and gaming at home at an almost record-low price — near half price discount on this managed fanless gigabit upgrade for your LAN comes with eight additional ports

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 07:46 EDT

This 8-port unmanaged TP-Link Ethernet switch is on sale, down to just $20.86 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking eight extra ports for your network at almost half its usual price. Read more ›

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Chinese university builds 3D chip design tool tailored to Huawei's ‘LogicFolding’ architecture — 3D design delivers increased performance and better thermal management

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 07:10 EDT

The announcement came two days after Huawei presented LogicFolding and its accompanying Tau Scaling Law at ISCAS 2026. Read more ›

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Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability with 8.8 CVE rating allows for code execution — hundreds of millions of machines potentially at risk

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 07:00 EDT

Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability allows for code execution and has an 8.8 CVE rating, hundreds of millions of machines potentially vulnerable Read more ›

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Samsung Display announces world's first 360 Hz 4K QD-OLED panel — dual-mode support also offers 680Hz at FHD, 10 customers reportedly lined up

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:59 EDT

Samsung just announced that it will launch a 360 Hz 4K QD-OLED panel at Computex 2026. The company says that this is the first panel that can hit those refresh rates at a native 4K, and that it's already in talks with several potential clients to supply future premium gaming monitors. Read more ›

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Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:50 EDT

Sandisk prepares to launch 520 and 320 SATA SSDs with capacities up to 4TB. Read more ›

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Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $240 when paired with this Asus motherboard — start your AM5 PC for just $639, saving $245 in the process

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:46 EDT

Get 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $240 when you buy it bundled with an Asus ROG Strix X870E-E motherboard. Read more ›

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ASRock BC-250 used for Steam Machine duty gains third-party hack to unlock all 40 CUs — mining board now has more CUs than a base PS5

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:31 EDT

Enthusiasts of ASRock's BC-250 server board have figured out a way to unlock all 40CUs inside the system's PS5-derived SoC, giving it more GPU cores than a base PS5. Read more ›

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Save up to $1,000 on Dell's elite gaming gear before it's gone — prebuilt PCs to laptops that will change the way you game.

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:10 EDT

Dell is selling a range of premium gaming products with up to $1,000 in savings for a limited time. Read more ›

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AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies feeling the bite of tokenized billing

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 16:52 EDT

Major tech companies are considering refining their approaches to AI, as rising token costs and increased token demand from AI agents make the costs harder to justify, with limited return on the investment. Read more ›

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Valve hikes Steam Deck OLED prices — 512GB is now $789, while 1TB climbs to $949

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 14:59 EDT

The Valve Steam Deck is seeing price hikes as high as $300 as the component shortage continues. Read more ›

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Italian council sets 200% tax on data center development in agricultural zones — aims to spur the use of old industrial areas instead and limit environmental impact

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 12:40 EDT

This 200% tax will make it more expensive to build in rural areas and is aimed at spurring data center development in disused industrial zones instead. Read more ›

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Get your hands on a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD for under $390 — $250 savings brings one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs to its lowest price in months

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 09:58 EDT

Samsung's 990 Pro 2TB is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs around, delivering excellent performance and efficiency and backed by a 5-year warranty - at $389.99, it's not the cheapest, but is a well-rounded storage upgrade for any build. Read more ›

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Nvidia's Vera CPU tested in common Linux benchmarks — 88-core monster competes or beats AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon in carefully curated test

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 09:52 EDT

NVIDIA's new server CPU doesn't win outright in most tests, but it's running very close to AMD's EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA. Read more ›

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Erin Brockovich starts tracking AI data centers, calls on affected communities to submit issues — website shows more than 2,700 reports from across the US raising various concerns

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 09:23 EDT

Erin Brockovich, who made her name making a case against PG&E in the '90s that resulted in a $333 million settlement, is now looking at the impact of data center developments on communities and is recording community reports along the way. Read more ›

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