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Dev hacks Xiaomi's Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally — custom firmware allows the product to evade planned obsolescence (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Hassam Nasir | get Smart Humidifier → | tags: assistant, esphome, hardware

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Experiment to train rats to play Doom reaches a new level; rats can now shoot enemies — wraparound AMOLED screen provides virtual environment for neuroengineers' expanded open source project (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Zak Killian | get Smartphone → | tags: doom, engine, game

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Nvidia details new software that enables location tracking for AI GPUs — opt-in remote data center GPU fleet management includes power usage and thermal monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-13 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: fleet, hardware, nvidia

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Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio (theverge.com)

2025-12-13 | by Terrence O'Brien | get MIDI Controller → | tags: hardware, maschine, pads

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Nvidia weighs expanding H200 production as new China orders rush in, report claims — ByteDance and Alibaba listed as suitors for 'large orders' in the wake of sanctions lift (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Luke James | get Graphics Card → | tags: capacity, china, chinese

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PNY's RTX 5070 GPU falls $50 below its MSRP launch price — grab one quickly via Walmart while stocks last (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Stewart Bendle | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: deals, hardware, image

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MSI's RTX 5070 GPU falls $50 below its MSRP launch price — grab one quickly via Walmart while stocks last (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Stewart Bendle | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: deals, gaming, hardware

398.

Here are the top ten PowerShell commands in Windows that will get you started (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Les Pounder | get PowerShell → | tags: command, commands, directory

399.

CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC packs 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM and an RTX 5080 GPU for $2499 — that's $700+ of RAM in today's market (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Stewart Bendle | get GPU → | tags: credit, deals, gaming

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Biwin Black Opal OC Lab Gold Edition DDR5-6000 C28 4x48GB Review: High-Performance Memory For Demanding Applications (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Zhiye Liu | get Memory → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

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UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," student arrested on three felony counts (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Mark Tyson | get Laptop → | tags: computer, damage, hardware

402.

AI Promises Peak Productivity. Are Your Enterprise PCs Ready For It? (cnet.com)

2025-12-10 | by Cnet Brandx For Amd | get Enterprise PCs → | tags: amd pro, amd ryzen, hardware

403.

China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Anton Shilov | get Cambricon → | tags: china, chinese, domestic

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I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-10 | get GPU → | tags: grace, hardware, hopper

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Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Sunny Grimm | get DeepLearning → | tags: china, deepseek, gpus

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China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, chip, hardware

407.

Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: hardware, nvidia, reuters

408.

Prusa CORE One L 3D printer review: Bigger and better (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Denise Bertacchi | get Prusa Slicer → | tags: core, hardware, print

409.

How Google’s TPUs are reshaping the economics of large-scale AI (venturebeat.com)

2025-12-10 | get Tensor Processing Units → | tags: cloud, google, gpus

410.

Arduino Uno Q Review: The board with two brains (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Les Pounder | get Microcontroller → | tags: arduino, arduino uno, hardware

411.

Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Luke James | get Semiconductor → | tags: billion, hardware, market

412.

HAVN BF360 Flow case review: Air scoop design delivers low GPU temps (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Albert Thomas | get Air Cooler → | tags: case, credit, credit tom

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Trump approves Nvidia H200 exports to China, with 25% fee attached — report suggests that companies will have to follow strict Beijing rules to import foreign chip, AMD and Intel to benefit from policy shift (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Luke James | get Nvidia H200 → | tags: announcement, china, chips

414.

Some of Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart devices are now available in the US (theverge.com)

2025-12-09 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Smart Speaker → | tags: announced, hardware, home

415.

Someone bought a $600 PC hiding a 4070 Ti Super, Core i9-14900KS, and $700 worth of RAM (techspot.com)

2025-12-09 | get GPU → | tags: actually, actually incredible, bargain

416.

Nvidia reportedly wins H200 exports to China — US Department of Commerce set to ease restrictions for full Hopper AI GPU (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Anton Shilov | get Hopper → | tags: china, export, hardware

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The Senate's new SAFE bill is set to curb access to advanced chips to China, but that won't slow down the AI war — training workloads still heavily rely on Nvidia, while alternatives remain inefficient (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Jon Martindale | get Nvidia → | tags: china, chinese, chips

418.

February report from researcher found Chinese KVM had undocumented microphone and communicated with China-based servers, but many of the security issues are now addressed [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Luke James | get Virtual Private Network (VPN) → | tags: device, hardware, microphone

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Researcher finds Chinese KVM has undocumented microphone, communicates with China-based servers — Sipeed's nanoKVM switch has other severe security flaws and allows audio recording, claims researcher (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Luke James | get Sipeed → | tags: device, hardware, microphone

420.

Researcher finds Chinese KVM switch has serious security flaws — Sipeed's switch allows for audio recording and has other serious security flaws (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Luke James | get KVM switch → | tags: device, hardware, microphone