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OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on Cerebras chips — marks AI giants first production deployment away from Nvidia (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-13 | by Luke James | get GPT-5.3 → | tags: cerebras, chips, codex

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Automakers lose emissions credits for start-stop technology under new EPA rules (techspot.com)

2026-02-13 | get Start-stop system → | tags: alternator, alternator hardware, architectures

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AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell — but hardware is only half the equation (venturebeat.com)

2026-02-12 | get GPU → | tags: blackwell, cost, hardware

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MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z review: RTX 5090 Ti, anyone? (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get RTX 5090 → | tags: card, hardware, lightning

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Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-12 | get Pebble OS → | tags: arm hardware, boot, boot mins

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This discounted gaming desktop comes with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5, and 2TB of storage for just $2,199 — AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Gigabyte Aorus build now $300 off (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Stephen Warwick | get Gaming Desktop → | tags: best, deals, gaming

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Get 32GB of Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000 RAM for $170 when you also purchase the Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor in this Newegg combo deal (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Stewart Bendle | get Kingston Fury Beast → | tags: credit, credit tom, deals

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Steam Deck availability goes up in smoke — suddenly goes out of stock in US, Asia stores (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get Steam Controller → | tags: deck, gaming, hardware

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Steam Deck stock shortages have fans worried about price hikes (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-11 | get Steam Deck → | tags: deck, hardware, hasn

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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 26H1 will be for Arm devices only at launch — Snapdragon X2-powered devices officially shipping with 26H1 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Aaron Klotz | get Windows 11 → | tags: devices, hardware, microsoft

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HP Now Rents Gaming Laptops (slashdot.org)

2026-02-11 | by Posted | get Gaming Laptop → | tags: gaming, hardware, laptop

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Samsung’s offering up to $900 of trade-in credit toward its new phones (theverge.com)

2026-02-11 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Galaxy → | tags: applied, hardware, phone

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Our testing shows the Ryzen 7 9800X3D can match the pricier Ryzen 7 9850X3D with simple PBO settings — AMD's latest CPU can't leverage extra clock speed in games (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Jake Roach | get Ryzen 7 9800X → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

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China's top chipmaker warns that rushed AI data center capacity could remain idle — SMIC chief says utilizing ballooning capacity 'has not been fully thought through' (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Anton Shilov | get Smartphone → | tags: centers, china, data centers

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Save $458 on this AMD 9850X3D, X870 motherboard and 32GB of RAM bundle at Newegg — start your AM5 PC build for less than $800 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Stephen Warwick | get Motherboard → | tags: credit, credit tom, gaming

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Samsung’s next Unpacked is confirmed for later this month (theverge.com)

2026-02-10 | by Allison Johnson | get Galaxy S → | tags: confirmed, hardware, phones

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My favorite Switch 2 controller is 30 percent off for today only (theverge.com)

2026-02-10 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Nintendo Switch Pro Controller → | tags: controller, gaming, hardware

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Jony Ive’s AI hardware is delayed to 2027 and won’t be called io (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-10 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Smartwatch → | tags: device, hardware, openai

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Jony Ives’ AI hardware is delayed to 2027 and won’t be called io (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-10 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Neuralink → | tags: device, hardware, openai

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Life support build: Breaking all the rules to build a productivity PC beast (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-10 | by Niels Broekhuijsen | get CPU → | tags: build, credit tom, hardware

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OpenAI Abandons “io” Branding for Its AI Hardware (wired.com)

2026-02-10 | by Maxwell Zeff | get Neural Network → | tags: device, filing, hardware

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OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware (wired.com)

2026-02-10 | by Maxwell Zeff | get Neural Network → | tags: device, filing, hardware

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Fiber Optic → | tags: carmack, fiber, tom hardware

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Fiber Optic → | tags: carmack, fiber, tom hardware

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Torvalds confirms Linux Kernel 7.0 is almost ready for release, bringing many performance improvements with it — desktop use and gaming may see boost, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hopes to use as default Kernel (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Linux Kernel → | tags: gaming, kernel, performance

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Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Hassam Nasir | get Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) → | tags: code, cursor, nvidia

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3D printing with one of the world’s hardest Tungsten-based materials is now possible — material’s incredible hardness made it difficult to additively manufacture (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-08 | by Mark Tyson | get Tungsten Carbide → | tags: materials, melting, printing

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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C34 2x64GB Review: The Sweet Spot For 128GB (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-08 | by Zhiye Liu | get Trident → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

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I’d buy Google’s AI glasses over Apple’s AI pin any day (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-08 | get Google Glass → | tags: glasses, google, hardware

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Microsoft purges Windows 11 printer drivers, putting millions of devices on borrowed time — legacy printers face extinction as Microsoft stops distributing V3 and V4 drivers (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Luke James | get Printer drivers → | tags: driver, drivers, hardware