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Chinese firms Bytedance and Tencent reportedly offer massive 150% pay increases and 35% bonuses to entice AI talent — salaries and increases also expected to balloon in 2026 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Jowi Morales | get Byte → | tags: bonuses, jobs, salaries

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Open source project brings 53-year-old interface to USB — GPIB adapter v3 adds integrated Ethernet port with PoE (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Mark Tyson | get GPIB → | tags: gpib, hardware, project

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Open source USB to GPIB adapter v3 adds integrated Ethernet port with PoE support — new version of legacy GPIB and IEEE-488 support hardware expected in January (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Mark Tyson | get GPIB-to-Ethernet → | tags: gpib, hardware, project

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Grab this 4K gaming PC with an RTX 5080 and 9800X3D for just $2,499 before prices skyrocket — $200 saving on powerful Skytech rig with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Ben Stockton | get Gaming PC → | tags: gaming, gaming pc, hardware

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Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system — nostalgia addicts can now boot up Unix v4 in a browser window (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Unix v4 → | tags: emulator, hardware, linux

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Russian Enthusiasts Planning DIY DDR5 Memory Amidst Worldwide Shortage (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | get DDR5 → | tags: chips, cost, doesn

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D7VK reaches version 1.1 and adds new frontend and experimental Direct3D 6 support — Direct3D 7-to-Vulkan translation layer runs old games with native performance (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Bruno Ferreira | get DirectX 11 → | tags: game, games, hardware

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Asus teaser video outs upcoming 'Neo' motherboards for AM5 — updates could include new AIO connector, M.2 upgrades, and NitroPath DRAM for ultra-fast DDR5 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Zhiye Liu | get Motherboard → | tags: asus, hardware, motherboards

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Cinebench 2026 out and ready to hammer CPUs and graphics cards six times as hard — updated benchmark includes an SMT core test (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Bruno Ferreira | get CPU-Z → | tags: chips, cinebench, engine

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Roborock CES teaser features a robot vacuum’s greatest enemy: stairs (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-29 | get Vacuum → | tags: hardware, miss, roborock

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IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Zak Killian | get RAM → | tags: hardware, market, memory

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Corsair MP700 Micro 4TB SSD Review: A monster in the tiny M.2 2242 form factor (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Shane Downing | get MicroSD → | tags: controller, corsair, drive

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Louis Gerstner, the man who saved IBM, dies at 83 — industry mourns the passing of transformative CEO (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Anton Shilov | get IBM → | tags: gerstner, hardware, leadership

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Save over $500 on the cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop we've seen with an OLED screen — Grab Lenovo's Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 CPU for as low as $1,137 with discount code (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get OLED screen → | tags: deals, hardware, image

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Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get Intel Core i7 → | tags: core, core ultra, hardware

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Aaron Klotz | get Nvidia RTX 5080 → | tags: gpus, hardware, likely

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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal looks a lot like an acquisition in disguise (techspot.com)

2025-12-27 | get Graphics Processing Unit → | tags: acquisition, acquisition company, agreement

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Amiga motherboard project to add NVMe SSD boot support and a driver for the onboard Ethernet — Mirari project hopes to ‘breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform’ (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-27 | by Mark Tyson | get Amiga → | tags: amiga, hardware, mirari

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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | by Bradley M. Kühn | get Glucose Monitor → | tags: abbott, device, glucose

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This AMD-powered iBuyPower prebuilt has 32GB of DDR5 memory, Ryzen 7 CPU, and an RX 9060 XT GPU for just $1000 — $250 off provides pricing relief during RAM pricing crisis (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Kunal Khullar | get iGPU → | tags: best, deals, gaming

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Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get DDR5 → | tags: chips, hardware, memory

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Russian enthusiasts are planning to build their own DDR5 RAM amidst the worldwide shortage — do-it-yourself RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get DDR5 Memory → | tags: chips, hardware, memory

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Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W power supply review: Platinum performance at Gold pricing (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by E. Fylladitakis | get Power Supply → | tags: cell, credit tom, hardware

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Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get Windows Storage → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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After forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, Microsoft will nearly double storage performance with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — will improve battery life also, but feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (Updated) (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, controls, export

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, controls, export

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Legacy AMD GPUs receive 30% performance boost in Linux with new drivers — latest kernel update finally drops obsolete Radeon graphics driver after more than two decades (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Zhiye Liu | get GPU → | tags: cards, driver, graphics

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Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-23 | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, bitlocker, hardware

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Grab this snappy gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and 32GB of RAM right now for under $1,000 — 1080p-capable ABS rig also has 1TB of storage (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Ben Stockton | get Gaming PC → | tags: deals, gaming, hardware