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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

572.

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

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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

575.

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

576.

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

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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

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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

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Splave's Cave: Overclocking the Asus RTX 5090 Astral and setting the 3DMark Port Royal world record (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch | get RTX 5090 → | tags: cold, hardware, image

582.

Acer Nitro 60 review: Gaming desktop essentials done right (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Charles Jefferies | get Gaming Desktop → | tags: acer, core, hardware

583.

This scratch-built, period-correct Portable Commodore 64 is a love letter to an alternate Commodore history — Noki's cleverly designed homage to the era merges Commodore, Apple, and Raspberry Pi (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Mark Tyson | get Commodore 64 → | tags: design, hardware, keyboard

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Creality K2 Pro Combo 3D printer review: A polished performer (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Denise Bertacchi | get Creality K2 Pro → | tags: combo, creality, creality pro

585.

Tiny Core Linux 16.2 still fits a proper Linux desktop into a 23MB download — but it has grown 1MB since the last time we looked at it (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-07 | by Zak Killian | get Linux → | tags: core, core linux, hardware

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New computing platform is ‘Made for Making’ — Caligra c100 Developer Terminal targets creators with distraction-free ‘computer for experts’ (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-07 | by Mark Tyson | get Caligra → | tags: caligra, computer, hardware

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Asus RTX 5070 gaming laptop hits an all-time low price of $1,099 — this 16-inch model comes with a Core i7 CPU, plus expandable 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD storage (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-07 | by Hassam Nasir | get Asus RTX → | tags: benchmarks, core, deals

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Emeet Piko+ Review: A 4K dual-camera, AI-powered webcam for active creators (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-07 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Piko Plus → | tags: credit tom, hardware, image

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TP-Link Archer GE400 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router review: Excellent gaming features, mixed bag on performance (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-07 | by Brandon Hill | get Router → | tags: archer, hardware, image

590.

Researchers create 3D displays that can be seen and felt using optotactile surfaces — millimeter-scale pixels rise into perceptible bumps when struck by brief pulses of projected light (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-07 | by Luke James | get Optotactile display → | tags: light, pixel, tactile

591.

Scythe Big Shuriken 4 Review: Compact SFF cooling for Mini-ITX (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-06 | by Albert Thomas | get Scythe → | tags: cooler, credit, credit tom

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1950s mechanical calculator crumbles in the face of divide-by-zero conundrum — relic spins its gears uncontrollably in 'chaotic loop' of endless motion (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-06 | by Mark Tyson | get Calculator → | tags: calculator, didn, divide

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'World's first scalable DNA data storage offering' announced offering a staggering ‘60PB in 60 cubic inches,’ enough to hold 660,000 4K movies — Atlas Data storage claims its solution is 1000x denser than LTO-10 tape (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-06 | by Mark Tyson | get Data Storage → | tags: atlas, claims, dna storage

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Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-06 | by Mark Tyson | get Starlink → | tags: defense, drone, express

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New report sheds a bit more light on who at Apple has been departing for OpenAI (9to5mac.com)

2025-12-05 | by Marcus Mendes | get Cloud → | tags: apple, apple hardware, design

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Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-05 | by Sarah Perez | get Limitless → | tags: hardware, limitless, meta

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Framework Sponsors CachyOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | get CachyOS → | tags: cachyos, community, donations

598.

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred from Using 'Io' Name (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | by Hartley Charlton | get OpenAI Bar → | tags: altman, court, hardware

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AMD CEO Lisa Su 'emphatically' rejects talk of an AI bubble — says claims are 'somewhat overstated' (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-05 | by Luke James | get GPU → | tags: hardware, openai, shipments

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IBM unveiled its Deep Blue chess supercomputer prototype 30 years ago today — two years later in its second attempt, it defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-05 | by Mark Tyson | get Deep Blue → | tags: blue, chess, deep