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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D faceoff — seeing double with Zen 4 X3D (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, ryzen 7 7700x3d, ryzen 7 7800x3d

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Robert Hallock, and a big week for optical (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: amd, bc-250, intel

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G.Skill Trident Z5 NeoX RGB DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review — EXPO ULL memory kit to max out your Ryzen (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: g.skill, trident z5, amd ryzen

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Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-14 | by Anna Heim | tags: nvidia, amd, gpu

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Scythe Magoroku Review: excellent RAM thermals, but needs improvement elsewhere (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Albert Thomas | tags: scythe, magoroku, amd ryzen 9 9950x3d

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Another Ryzen 7 7800X3D reportedly burns out despite AMD's voltage fix (techspot.com)

2026-08-14 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: ryzen 7 7800x3d, amd, am5 motherboard

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AMD borrows $4.75 billion for 'general corporate purposes' — company gives no insight into how it plans to spend cash injection (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Anton Shilov | tags: amd, intel, securities

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Gigabyte resurrects 8-year-old B450 chipset with new motherboards — AM4 budget king returns as another DDR4 solution to exorbitant RAM prices (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: gigabyte, b450 chipset, amd

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Just one instruction on AMD's 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: amd, amd fx-series, amd opteron

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Spaghettifying DRAM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: dram, amd, memory controller

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Maxsun Terminator B850M Pro II Motherboard Review: Comparable features, but US pricing is over MSRP (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Joe Shields | tags: maxsun, terminator b850m pro ii, amd am5

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Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM free when you buy AMD's 9900X and an Asus TUF motherboard — $659 Newegg combo saves $274, and you get a free 240mm AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Joe Shields | tags: amd, ryzen 9 9900x, asus x870e-plus

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4GB vs. 8GB VRAM: The 1080p Benchmark (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Steven Walton | tags: amd, rx 9050, rdna 4

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4GB vs. 8GB VRAM: The 1080p Benchmark (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Steven Walton | tags: amd, rx 9050, rdna 4

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AMD's TPM implementation includes two high-severity flaws, but fixes have been available since May (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: amd, tpm, trusted computing group

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How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-12 | by Amy Nordrum | tags: amd, spotify, mit technology review

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A four-year-old budget CPU is outselling AMD's best gaming chip in some markets (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Daniel Sims | tags: amd ryzen 5 5500, intel, ram shortages

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Mamdani Takes On Amazon in New Battle Over New York’s Delivery Workers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-11 | tags: mamdani, amazon, new york

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Mamdani Takes on Amazon in New Battle Over New York’s Delivery Workers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-11 | tags: mamdani, amazon, new york

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Mayor Mamdani Joins Push to Reclassify Amazon Delivery Drivers as Employees (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: amazon, delivery drivers, mayor mamdani

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Authors face backlash for participation in 2022 Google AI study (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Max Miller | tags: google, lamda, deepmind

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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Julie Bort | tags: river ai, general catalyst, xai

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AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, ryzen 5 5500, amazon cpu

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Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price — unlocking 40 CUs, eight Zen 2 cores on the repurposed PS5 APU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd bc-250, steam machine, ps5 apu

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DeepCool AK620 and AK400 G2 Review: Quiet and powerful, with woodgrain or a digital display (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Albert Thomas | tags: deepcool, ak620, ak400 g2

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Walmart has slashed $600 off this RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop, now just $1,099 — get Gigabyte's 16-inch Aero X16 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5060, amd ryzen ai 7

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Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: smm, amd, x86

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Acer Swift Go 16 AI (AMD Gorgon Point) Review: A balanced, affordable, big-screen portable (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Matt Safford | tags: acer, swift go 16 ai, amd ryzen ai 7

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GeForce Now exploit unlocks full Windows desktop access (techspot.com)

2026-08-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: geforce now, nvidia, steam

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The only current-generation graphics card on sale below MSRP — AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU with 12GB of VRAM returns to its lowest-ever price of $499 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: amd, radeon rx 9070, rdna 4