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Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: best, best buy, hardware

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Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers (techspot.com)

2026-08-18 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nova lake, intel, coyote cove

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What are your retro game consoles worth? (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Husain Parvez | tags: retro game consoles, model number, hardware revisions

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‘Threads’ Hits Just as Hard Today as It Did During the Cold War (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: threads, bbc, shudder

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Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: pokemon center, ceva logistics, cma cgm

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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Zak Killian | tags: ddr5 memory, ram prices, pcpicker

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Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: trezor, safepal, crypto wallets

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I measured my brain during one of the hardest business trips of my year. Here’s what I learned about performance (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: brain performance, business trip, time zones

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Amazon makes it harder for customers to sue as new terms block class actions and force arbitration (techspot.com)

2026-08-17 | by Rob Thubron | tags: amazon, arbitration, class action

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You might want to skip Newegg's GPU trade-in program (engadget.com)

2026-08-16 | by Husain Parvez | tags: newegg, gpu trade-in, ups

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New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba (techspot.com)

2026-08-16 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: hgst, western digital, seagate

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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: google, apple, palantir

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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Luke James | tags: backblaze, hgst, toshiba

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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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Ocypus Sigma L36 Pro Review: How is this LCD AIO so cheap? (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Albert Thomas | tags: ocypus, sigma l36 pro, ips display

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Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: switched on pop, nate sloan, charlie harding

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Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware (techspot.com)

2026-08-15 | by Daniel Sims | tags: intel, raptor lake, ddr5

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As weather gets harder to predict, which iPhone weather app is best? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: advantages, advantages know, app maps

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When housing is unaffordable, this artist’s device makes pedaling harder (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | tags: ground truth, evs, brooklyn

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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: ploppy, trackball, hardware

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Predict Antenna Coupling on Electrically Large Platforms Before Building Hardware (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: antenna coupling, mutual s-parameters, wipl-d

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Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: spacex, falcon 9, starlink

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Cargo thieves ram security escorts to hijack AI hardware shipments in California — brazen thieves employ PIT maneuver, rear-ending tactics to secure goods for the black market (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Luke James | tags: cargo theft, ai hardware, silicon valley

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Best mid-range phone for the younger gen: The OPPO Reno16 Series is built for social content creators (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: oppo, reno16 series, ai editing

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$29 per Terabyte makes this 24TB Seagate BarraCuda one of the best-value hard drives in today's market — $50 off at Newegg makes it $200 cheaper than the 20TB version (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: seagate, barracuda, newegg

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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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From Apple to Ford: How Chinese tech is becoming harder for global companies to ignore (cnbc.com)

2026-08-14 | by Jenny Lee | tags: apple, baidu, catl

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NP-Overrated (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Niklas Gruhn | tags: np-hard, dependency resolution, package managers

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Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse (engadget.com)

2026-08-13 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: flock, law enforcement, audit assistance

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Selling fast: 38% off the Eufy Omni C20 robot vac and mop in Lightning Deal (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: eufy omni c20, amazon lightning deal, robot vacuum