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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 14:05 EDT

Rockstar Games confirms it was hacked by malicious group — 'ShinyHunters' takes credit, gives until April 14 to pay ransom or risk leaking confidential data,  'ShinyHunters'

The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 12:27 EDT

Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today — its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots

Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add ‘irritating,’ productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 11:59 EDT

Save $680 instantly on this massive Corsair 96GB DDR5-6000 RAM kit — 57% discount slashes price tag to $499

If you've been looking to score a high-capacity kit of RAM but the AI boom has destroyed any chance of that happening, Newegg might have just the deal for you. The 96GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit usually costs over $1,100, but you can get it for less than half if you act quickly. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 10:35 EDT

Best Laptops 2026: Our benchmarked picks for productivity, portability, and battery life

We test dozens of laptops a year for their performance, screen quality, and battery life, to find the best laptops right now across Windows, macOS, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm notebooks. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 08:00 EDT

HyperX Eve 1800 Review: Not worth $50

The HyperX Eve 1800 is not a good keyboard, even for $50, as it’s lacking in features and not pleasant to use. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 08:00 EDT

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs Ryzen 7 9700X faceoff — a new midrange CPU champ emerges

Intel's new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is going after the Ryzen 7 9700X with its $300 price point. We put the two head-to-head in a series of rounds based on our own testing to see which comes out on top. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 07:00 EDT

Garage sale haul finds 2013 'trash can' Mac Pro nestled inside 2010 Mac Pro enclosure — Mac Pro inception still needs some work to get running

A lucky buyer on Reddit found a 2010 Mac Pro in a garage sale and it had a whole 'nother 2013 Mac Pro sitting inside. The tower didn't have any internals, which implies that the owner was likely using it as a sort of DIY enclosure for the trash-can Mac Pro, to perhaps mount extra stuff since the 2013 Mac Pro has no expansion slots. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 06:40 EDT

FAA courts gamers to become air traffic controllers — boasts $155k average annual salary after three years as the agency prepares for 8,000 applicants

The FAA's latest YouTube video is encouraging gamers to apply to become an air traffic controller, telling them that they've been training for this challenge. The agency is tapping on the younger demographic to help expand its numbers as the ATC shortage is hampering safety and airport operations. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/11/2026 06:20 EDT

Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X

A research team at Specops benchmarked an RTX 5090, against two AI datacenter GPUs with Hashcat to see which GPU is the better password cracker. Spoiler alert, the RTX 5090 was the winner. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/10/2026 14:00 EDT

Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider program — fewer channels, and switching without wiping your device

Microsoft is simplifying the Windows Insider program with fewer channels, making it easier to switch between them and enable the latest features. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/10/2026 09:53 EDT

Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’

Framework founder Nirav Patel said that the personal computing industry is facing a massive change as big companies are forcing it to move towards a subscription-based model. Still, he vows to continue making hardware that will enable the personal ownership of computation. Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/10/2026 08:41 EDT

French government say it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

France is accelerating its digital sovereignty plans. In an official press release this week, the country’s DINUM announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system.” Read more

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Tom's Hardware · 04/10/2026 08:32 EDT

Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews

Anthropic has convened America's big tech companies and the U.S. government to deal with the many bugs and vulnerabilities its new AI found, but this may be just the latest attempt by Anthropic to scare people into thinking its AI is the solution to its own discovered problems. Read more

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