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The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI combines a 240 Hz QHD+ OLED display with Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 processor and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics, and Best Buy is offering discounts of up to $800.
Privacy-focused firm Proton AG just decided to host the Flock camera map that a security researcher published last month.
The Edifier Hecate G2000 Pro speakers offer a uniquely designed RGB experience, all within a set of above-average 2.0 Stereo PC gaming speakers. They deliver an audio experience far surpassing their looks and size.
We give you a glimpse at some of the biggest stories we've published over on Tom's Hardware Premium this week, including reports on TP-Link's struggles over sales of its Wi-Fi 8 routers, FADU's new SSD, and how to juice better gaming performance from RTX Spark.
Valve practically just flipped a switch to give gamers the ability to read optical drives directly from the Steam Frame.
A new customizable rhythm game controller that's compatible with the new Stage Tour and pre-existing Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. The InfinaKore Fender Telecaster Edition controller lets you create your ideal guitar controller.
Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down the automated portal used to approve them
Wondering why RTX 5090s are so hard to find? Leaked footage shows thousands of consumer GPUs, including Founders Editions, being torn apart for AI servers.
The Filin missile, which was deployed between late September and early October of this year, reportedly used 3D-printed and commercial parts to save on cost.
Exhaustion with tech market prompt Youtuber to remake their first PC — 1996 build fueled by nostalgia and AI weariness
Fascinating footage captured inside a busy CompUSA retail store in Y2K lets you relive the PC era when translucent acrylic Presarios and iMacs roamed the Earth.
Razer's Basilisk V4 Pro gaming mouse features an ergonomic shape, a lighter weight, and a couple of extra buttons, plus Razer's Focus Pro 50K optical sensor.
Micron's G11 3D NAND promises 42 Gb/mm2 and 5,400 MT/s interface speed, enabling SSDs with extreme capacity and performance.
SK hynix abandons IPO plans for Solidigm, confirms plans to build a Solidigm 3D NAND fab in the U.S.
The $209 Gigabyte Z890M Aorus Elite Wifi 7 Ice is one of the better-looking Micro ATX boards, with an icy-white aesthetic and full heatsink coverage that give it a premium vibe for white-themed Intel builds.
Upgrade your gaming monitor with this fantastic $329 deal on the Acer XB27OU 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor at Best Buy. Save $50 instantly.
Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.
China has stretched older DUV lithography far further than expected, using multiple patterning to approach 5nm-class without EUV. But experts say the trade-offs in cost, yield, and die size mean further advancements are unlikely to be economically viable.
Bambu Lab’s long-awaited tool changer H3C launches Nov. 3, 2026.
A security firm has been able to identify 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a China Telecom network, but it's unclear where the export-barred components are physically located.
FCC bans a dashcam and wireless video transmitter produced by HiSilicon, a subsidiary of Huawei for containing an AI chip that advertises face detection algorithms.
Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 drives cost-per-task further down still — open-weight model is fit for agentic workloads and exceedingly cheap to run
The UK government has outlined plans for new powers and criminal offenses to help protect undersea cables in UK waters amid fears of Russian interference.
Several U.S. banks are blocking AI agents from making transactions on their platforms. They fear that those agents could go rogue and there's no way to tell if the moves they make are legitimate or not.
The user said that they only wanted to alert others about the importance of the upcoming CVE releases and weren't told about the embargo.
Claude and Grok are among the AI agents that are being used to automate attacks on Latin American institutions, including banks and payment apps, by a group calling themselves CyberCartel.
Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the ARTEX AI agent framework in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain attack.
You can save $450 on this 4K-capable gaming machine from Newegg's ABS brand, featuring the powerful RTX 5070 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD for $2,549.99.
Wolves, who used to live in the forests recently cleared for Google data center development, are now roaming into Finnish villages nearby.
A rare prototype cartridge of Pokémon Red for the Nintendo Game Boy is on sale, with one $25,000 bid so far.
On this day in 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPod. He began the presentation by teasing 'a breakthrough digital device that’s not a Mac.'
One of the GPUs from a stolen shipment of RTX 5090 graphics cards has appeared for sale online. Police have identified three employees at an airport who stole the goods.
Sony is following the footsteps of LG in ending Blu-ray player production.
TSMC is reportedly asking equipment suppliers for factory machinery that doesn't use rare-earth components, as the chipmaker seeks to reduce exposure to China’s dominance of critical minerals and permanent magnets.
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark might not be a gaming laptop first and foremost, but it certainly wants to game. We found that creating a custom 1920x1080-equivalent resolution for its 3:2 screen, missing from its out-of-the-box config, makes for a better experience.
After years with the Cezanne-based 5500, AMD has finally updated its $100 CPU to the 5500F in the Vermeer family, adding a 200 MHz boost in clock speed and a PCIe 4.0 upgrade.
billions of older devices and software installations may be vulnerable after round of fixes, patch yours immediately
Micron believes that more advanced process technologies will present more benefits in terms of DRAM bit density than smaller memory cells.
The modern Atari VCS is being officially retired with the firm’s decision to shut down the Linux-based AMD APU-powered machine's software store early next year.
EA is closing BioWare and its Edmonton studio after deciding not to move forward with early development of the next Mass Effect.
An investigation claimed that Russian boats have been spending the past five years mapping and surveying undersea cables.
Despite all odds, the AI boom is increasing relevance of tape storage as technology enables cheap storage with zero power consumption in idle and ultimate security with an air gap.
Save 33% on a new Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop at Best Buy. RTX 5070 graphics and a sharp OLED panel are highlights of this laptop build.
This Newegg combo deal combines the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a Gigabyte AM5 X870E motherboard for $1,029.99, saving you over $238 in total.
OpenAI says researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol uncovered two critical PHP vulnerabilities with severity scores of 9.2 and demonstrated working exploits, after which the company coordinated fixes.
Google’s TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.
Almost 500,000 phishing emails were sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Kobe, Japan, hotel room.
Intel makes progress on its manufacturing expansion in Arizona and Ohio as it continues to expand advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S.
The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro has its astronomical AI-driven high price slashed by 27%.
Elon Musk says ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are expediting deliveries for Terafab, as Tesla and SpaceX target volume chip production in Texas by late 2028 alongside a massive expansion in AI compute capacity.
New driver enablement work from AMD brings full platform-level tuning control to Ryzen systems running Linux, finally.
Trump's latest post on Truth Social announces his plans to make data centers more popular among local communities.
Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.
FADU’s FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.
AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.
Iran could attack seven undersea cables that run through the Strait of Hormuz, describing them as "legitimate new targets" in a potential "third phase" of further conflict with the United States.
Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly upgrading their factories to produce more advanced RAM chips designed for AI data centers in an attempt to fend off competition from Chinese companies.
Headsets are mainly about audio, but that doesn't mean that the "objectively" best-sounding headset by audiophile standards translates to the best-sounding headset by gaming standards.
Micron's Taiwan union is set to conduct a one-day strike at the company's Taoyuan DRAM facility as workers demand bonuses for this year and transparent terms of bonuses for upcoming years.
Save $850 on a new Lenovo gaming laptop from Best Buy. Pick up the Legion 5i with RTX 5070 graphics and save 32%.
You can pick up this ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SS with a $200 discount, now $1,499.99.
HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab’s FLIP rover to the Moon’s south pole to run HPL, HPCG, and AI tests.
Four contract workers died after a fall at TSMC’s Fab 22 construction site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC keynote speech in Berlin was disrupted by a Greenpeace protest on Wednesday.
AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.
TP-Link is at the mercy of the FCC regarding its ready-to-go Wi-Fi 8 routers, so it has a sweetener in mind to move things along.
The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
The U.S. Army is developing a program to deploy autonomous AI agents that can navigate digital and network infrastructures, identify targets, and “neutralize” them.
The U.S. government is helping fund projects to bring nuclear reactors back online in an attempt to provide more energy capacity to AI data centers.
The new Oblivion Remastered Performance Fix mod is a pure code fix, with no changes to game assets or the game's visuals, yet it offers massive gains.
Save $450 on Newegg’s ABS Stratos II Aqua prebuilt – open the box and start gaming tomorrow saving the trouble of building and supporting your own
Modern computing remains vulnerable to the low bus factor of many open-source projects — continued lack of funding and manpower for voluntary-maintained infrastructure makes for a perennial threat
$35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs have been bought by Chinese trio Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance, with demand far exceeding Nvidia's planned production, according to report.
VR rendering technique of foveated imaging gets integrated into DLSS 5, making it much easier to run
Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.
Intel is concerned that the sweeping ban on foreign-made robots means that it could not update or maintain its fleet of AGVs.
Windows 98 devotees now have (experimental) support for USB4 and Thunderbolt 3/4. Vibe coded driver also supports Windows Me, XP, Vista, and 7.
A hobbyist converted a SK hynix 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit they got off Facebook Marketplace for $120 into a DDR5-7800 desktop kit.
Over $5 million worth of gift cards for retailers like Target and Sephora were stolen from Staples when thieves gained access to an internal system.
Pick up a brand-new iBuypower Slate PC for just $899, a great entry-level gaming PC option for 1080p gaming.
The TP-Link Archer BE9700 Wi-Fi 7 router is on sale for a limited-time only, down to $189.98, with six external antennas, a 10G WAN port, and four 2.5G Ethernet ports.
Google DeepMind researchers say four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours, writing 2,783 programs with no human help.
The Ukrainian military is claiming a world’s first after using an unmanned drone to rescue an injured soldier on the eastern Kharkiv front.
Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.
A Chinese hacker reportedly used a fleet of AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites, including farm equipment maker Deers and appliance outfit SharkNinja.
Leading French eSports club Team Vitality has confirmed that its Paris HQ has been smashed up, with trophies, computer equipment, and more looted over the weekend.
Norway's Bulk Infrastructure Group AS is looking for a partner to build transatlantic undersea cabling to connect Canada with Europe to bypass the United States.
The tiny, portable Creality Pika is a joy to use, especially if you have a high end computer or a recent model phone to pair it with.
A developer using Claude Code to help build a temperature monitor app was warned by the coding agent about a hidden crypto miner running on their system.
Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the modeled rack performance of AMD’s EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a new evaluation methodology developed with Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI
With 47% off the list price, LG's UltrGear G5 gaming monitor is the perfect impulse purchase at just $79. An IPS panel, a 200Hz refresh rate, and FHD resolution for an unbelievable price.
Joshua Bird designed, built, and tested this drone in their home, even resorting to building their own high-speed camera to check their build while spinning at a high speed.
This Newegg deal on an ABS Flux II Aqua gaming PC gives you a machine ready for 1440p and 4K gameplay for $1,799.99. This pre-built comes with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
Russia’s Cosmos 2612 moved from more than 200 miles to about three miles from ICEYE-X36, a U.S.-owned radar satellite.
Radeon GPUs get the full DLSS experience as solo project ports all the DLSS features for RDNA2-4 GPUs.
The Editor's Choice Anycubic Kobra X Multicolor 3D Printer is at the lowest price we've ever seen.
The USAF's latest test proves that an F-22 Raptor can command a YFQ-44A Fury drone in combat conditions.
You don’t need the latest and greatest PC hardware to have fun or even break overclocking world records, as Luumi shows with an ancient Haswell system.
Asus delivers its take on G-Sync Pulsar with the ROG Strix XG27AQGNV. This 27-inch IPS panel sports smooth motion with 360 Hz, QHD resolution, HDR and wide gamut color.
Brazilian electronics and IT distributor Oderço claims that two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs have arrived at the airport but has since completely disappeared.