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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

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OpenAI's ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between $300 and $400 (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Anna Washenko | tags: device, expect, gurman

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Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: chip, circuit, hardware

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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power

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D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: called, dual rail, hardware

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Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: hardware, helix, memo

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$4,429 order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by Nvidia due to a 'late' price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: asus, hardware, nvidia

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COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: access, audit, coldcard

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Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, memory, microsoft

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PC Prices Are So Bad Now, Companies Are Selling You Old Components Like New (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: gigabyte, pc components, upgrade

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Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: apple, openai, jony ive

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Apple moves for preliminary injunction in OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Chance Miller | tags: apple, openai, trade secrets

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16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gpu vram, steam hardware, amd resurgence

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OpenAI rebuts Apple trade secrets allegations in new response with receipts (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zac Hall | tags: apple, openai, chatgpt

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Galaxy S27 Ultra may get a slimmer camera thanks to this hidden upgrade (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: galaxy s27 ultra, samsung, inkjet lens process

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World’s smallest GPU silicon passes real-world testing — 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at up to 15 FPS while v3.0 prepares for 2026 release (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Mark Tyson | tags: tinygpu, sky 25b, openhardware

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EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Linux Phone | tags: age verification, hardware-bound attestation, android

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COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: coldcard, bitcoin, galaxy research

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Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: defcon, baochip, hardware security

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New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kim Zetter | tags: defcon, baochip, open-source

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Beat the AI price surge on PC hardware — leverage Newegg combo deals, track Amazon prices, and shop refurb outlets like Woot (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: newegg, amazon, pc hardware

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Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single stick (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: ddr5, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, tom's hardware

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The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kim Zetter | tags: defcon, baochip, open source

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Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: quantum computers, ibm, quantum advantage