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Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $154 — get a 20-core midrange CPU with 5.5 GHz boost for an entry-level price (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jake Roach | tags: intel, core ultra 5 250k plus, arrow lake

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Dell XPS 13 (2026) review: A MacBook Neo alternative that needs more RAM (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: dell xps 13, intel core 5 320, snapdragon x elite

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Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: parametron, eiichi goto, university of tokyo

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Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: core, gaming, intel

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Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true? (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: chuwi, core, intel

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

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Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Thomas Ricker | tags: bank, battery, lights

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Assembly Hall of Shame (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: contender, cycles, cycles time

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HyperX Omen Max 16 review: All bark and no bite (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Brandon Hill | tags: core, hyperx, hyperx omen

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Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today — its Intel Xeon-powered flagship desktop took the reins from the Power Mac G5 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mark Tyson | tags: apple, core, intel

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Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by George Cozma | tags: bandwidth, core, epyc

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NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by George Cozma | tags: bandwidth, core, epyc

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Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by George Cozma | tags: bandwidth, core, epyc

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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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Crazed modder turns NAS into a gaming PC with RTX 5060 hanging from the side, boosts frame rate by 828% — Frankenstein rig hides dedicated PSU in drive bay, breaks Time Spy world record for the onboard CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nas, rtx 5060, intel core i5-1235u

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Hatch's new clock skips the sleep score and tracks you at night instead - here's how (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Allison Murray | tags: hatch, sleep score, zdtnet

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Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition review: A capable ultralight laptop that's way too expensive (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: lenovo, yoga slim 7i, intel core ultra 7 355

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16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gpu vram, steam hardware, amd resurgence

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Starz Promo Codes: $5 Off for August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Molly Higgins | tags: starz, lionsgate, power

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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-03 | by Tim De Chant | tags: base power, backyard batteries, base core

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Nearly 1,900 U.S. public schools are within a mile of a data center (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: arnco-sargent elementary, data center, atlanta

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Plans for nuclear-powered merchant ships must confront risks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-03 | by Chen | tags: nuclear ships, core power, marine fuels

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First open-source firmware for AM5 officially launches — Dasharo v0.9.0 brings Coreboot and openSIL to Zen 4 APUs on MSI B850 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Aaron Klotz | tags: coreboot, dasharo, amd

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When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Dusty Daemon | tags: core-lightning, coldcard, bitcoin

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'Nozzlegate' erupts as Prusa CORE One 3D printer kits arrive with soft steel nozzles — Bondtech admits machining flaws with no quick fix (Updated) (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Denise Bertacchi | tags: prusa research, prusa core one, bondtech

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'Nozzlegate' erupts as Prusa CORE One 3D printer kits arrive with soft steel nozzles — Bondtech admits machining flaws with no quick fix (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Denise Bertacchi | tags: prusa, bondtech, nozzlegate

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How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Son | tags: openai, situational awareness, sk hynix

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Ambitious gamer turns fanless Subway menu PCs into gaming rigs — passive Intel Core i3 units manage just 15 fps in GTA V and 25 fps in Minecraft (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: subway mini pcs, intel skylake, advantech ds-081

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OnePlus confirms OnePlus 16, its first flagship after US exit, is coming soon (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: oneplus 16, snapdragon 8 elite gen 6 pro, wind chaser