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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: hardware, openai, premium

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Introducing Bench 2.0 — a revamped benchmark analyzer, exclusively for Tom's Hardware Premium subscribers (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jeremy Kaplan | tags: bench, hardware, tests

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Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo' — AI tool mistakes user's home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: backup, entire, rm rf

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OpenAI’s first AI smart speaker reportedly won’t just talk, it’ll move too (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: apple, device, hardware

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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: bloomberg, device, hardware

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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400 (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: bloomberg, device, hardware

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OpenAI's ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between $300 and $400 (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Anna Washenko | tags: device, expect, gurman

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AMD buys chip startup that hardwires AI models into its silicon (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Kif Leswing | tags: chips, model, models

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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: anthropic, business insider, chip

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Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: chip, circuit, hardware

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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power

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Thousands of server motherboards are vulnerable to controller flaws that could give attackers hardware-level control (techspot.com)

2026-08-06 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: attackers, authentication, bmcs

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How a steady drip-drip can erode the hardest stone (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: august, august doi, deformation

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D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: called, dual rail, hardware

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Extreme heat from human-caused climate change could make flight delays more common. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: extreme, extreme heat, harder

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Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: hardware, helix, memo

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$4,429 order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by Nvidia due to a 'late' price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: asus, hardware, nvidia

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COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: access, audit, coldcard

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Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, memory, microsoft

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PC Prices Are So Bad Now, Companies Are Selling You Old Components Like New (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: gigabyte, pc components, upgrade

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New DC Studios Show ‘Lanterns’ Is Out This August on HBO Max, Plus New ‘Hard Knocks,’ Conan and More (cnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Liz Kocan | tags: dc studios, lanterns, hbo max

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Web Security is Too Hard (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by View More Posts | tags: cloudflare, phishing, domain names

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Web security is too hard (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by View More Posts | tags: cloudflare, phishing, domain names

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Security Is Hard, Y'all (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by View More Posts | tags: cloudflare, consent phishing, domain names

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Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: apple, openai, jony ive

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Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: coldcard, coinkite, elliptic

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Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: coldcard, coinkite, elliptic

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2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: chevrolet, corvette, grand sport x

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Apple moves for preliminary injunction in OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Chance Miller | tags: apple, openai, trade secrets

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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