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Hyte rolls back MSRPs on its cases for the first time since tariff announcements — some products return to pre-tariff pricing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/24/2025 05:00 EDT

Hyte is lowering the prices for the Y40, Y60, and Y70 cases to pre-tariff levels, while the Y70 Touch Infinite gets $40 off its old price. Read more ›

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Trump announces 'AI Action Plan' for the United States government — policy roadmap seeks to accelerate adoption of AI tools and spur infrastructure buildout in the race for global dominance

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 20:38 EDT

This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy. Read more ›

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GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 14:26 EDT

GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050. Read more ›

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Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 12:58 EDT

Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute — equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs — within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of power. Read more ›

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UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations — targets 'public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 10:41 EDT

The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments. Read more ›

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Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo Review: Color to the Max

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 09:00 EDT

Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo succeeds where others disappoint. Read more ›

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Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 08:30 EDT

Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power. Read more ›

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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 is the current top 96GB memory kit for AMD CPUs — Trident Z5 Neo RGB C26 2x48GB Review

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 08:00 EDT

The Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26 is a new kit from G.Skill that targets AMD systems; however, can it beat the other enthusiast memory kits on the market? Read more ›

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Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hearted

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 07:38 EDT

This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts. Read more ›

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Months after Elon Musk's DOGE crusade to wipe it out, LTO tape storage is bigger than ever — a record 176.5 exabytes shipped in 2024, the fourth consecutive year of growth

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 06:25 EDT

Tape storage shipments have enjoyed their fourth consecutive year of growth, increasing 15.4% according to the most recent data. Read more ›

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China's CXMT reportedly delays mass production of DDR5 chips to late 2025 — state-backed manufacturer could still be disruptive market force

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 05:53 EDT

CXMT has reportedly delayed DDR5 mass production to late 2025 to improve quality and yields, but its growing capabilities and state backing are starting to worry global DRAM rivals despite ongoing tool access challenges. Read more ›

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MetaMask crypto wallet Chrome extension is eating SSD storage at an alarming rate — owner confirms bug 'has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day into [users'] solid-state drives'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/23/2025 05:35 EDT

A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs. Read more ›

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Mystery AMD Radeon GPU cooler spotted on Chinese forums is larger than RX 7900 XTX, with a massive heatsink and 3x 8-pin connectors — possibly the RX 7950 XTX that never was

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 14:25 EDT

A massive triple-slot cooler with space for three 8-pin connectors has surfaced from China, hinting at an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype. Likely meant for a never-launched “7950 XTX,” the design suggests AMD once flirted with an RTX 4090-class card during the RDNA 3 era. Read more ›

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Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 14:04 EDT

Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has repeatedly floated the idea of producing a laptop in the U.S. that would cost 20% more than competitive offerings. Read more ›

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Microsoft finally has a Surface Laptop with 5G — Intel Core Ultra-powered laptop will ship as part of business line

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 13:00 EDT

Microsoft has announced its first Surface Laptop with cellular connectivity and designed a custom antenna for it. Read more ›

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AMD Strix Halo Mini-ITX motherboard flaunts 128GB LPDDR5X — add a CPU cooler, boot drive, and power supply for a slim gaming or AI rig

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 12:57 EDT

Shanghai Sixunited Intelligent Technology Co, Ltd. has revealed the company's upcoming STHT1 powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300-series (Strix Halo) processor. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab's entire 3D printer lineup is still discounted at anniversary-sale pricing — for how long, we don't know

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 12:18 EDT

Start your 3D printing journey while these popular Bambu Lab printers are still heavily discounted. Read more ›

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FCC proposal aims to nix long-term gigabit internet speed goals, pricing analysis

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 11:55 EDT

An FCC proposal seeks to undo the Biden administration's efforts to encourage increased availability of gigabit download speeds. Read more ›

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OpenAI and Oracle ink deal to build massive Stargate data center, total project will power 2 million AI chips — Stargate partner SoftBank not involved in the project

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 11:20 EDT

OpenAI and Oracle plan to add 4.5 GW of U.S. data center power for the Stargate project, boosting total capacity past 5 GW to support millions of AI processors. Read more ›

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DNS Mad Libs is a hacker-inspired version of the popular word game — built on networking infrastructure to provide distributed version

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Tom's Hardware · 07/22/2025 10:52 EDT

Malware embedded in the ubiquitous Domain Name System inspired the creation of the world's most cursed take on mad-libs. Read more ›

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