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What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jay Peters | tags: google, image, pixel

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YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Emma Roth | tags: youtube, shorts, partner program

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Finding It Harder and Harder to Get a Restaurant Reservation? Some Diners Are Paying for Priority Access. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jonathan Small | tags: resy, sevenrooms, dorsia

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Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Anton Shilov | tags: hyperscalers, ai hardware, memory

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Steam hardware distributor hit by cyberattack, 'expect fake messages,' Valve warns — Europe vendor has personal information and hardware purchase details stolen (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Mark Tyson | tags: steam, valve, ceva logistics

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Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Emma Roth | tags: steam, valve, ceva logistics

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Valve notifies Steam hardware customers of a data breach (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: steam, valve, ceva logistics

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Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Freelance Contributor | tags: purity bakery, hard tack, newfoundland

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Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: cooling, hardware, tom hardware

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Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

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After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zak Killian | tags: castle, game, german

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RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: capacity, digitimes, growing

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Senko Rašić | tags: code, coding, coding easy

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

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Modder turns Steam Controller trackpad haptics into stereo speakers with custom HID tool — Wired connection transmits 16-bit audio that sounds surprisingly full (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: audio, controller, hardware

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

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

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Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: bang, bang power, big bang

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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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OpenAI’s vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai hardware, allegedly, details

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OpenAI’s Rumored Smart Speaker Sounds More Like a… Squirming AI Robot? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai hardware, anthropomorphized, anthropomorphized hockey

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AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: broido, broido intermetrics, established

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Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: center, data center, hardware

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 8, 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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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