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‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win — beat 256 other spreadsheet whizzes to claim the $60,000 first prize in Las Vegas tournament (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Microsoft Excel → | tags: early, esports, excel

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RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses review: Intriguing, high-priced glasses with alarming battery life (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Brandon Hill | get Ray-Ban → | tags: credit, hardware, image

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Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Search engine → | tags: altavista, google, hardware

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Does AI Really Make Coders Faster? (slashdot.org)

2025-12-20 | by Posted | get TensorFlow → | tags: code, mit technology, review

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You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Jowi Morales | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 → | tags: gpus, hardware, older

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Savvy PC builder finds GeForce GTX 1660 Super for just $8.40 at thrift store — Goodwill purchase comes with 6GB of VRAM for 1080p gaming, still sells for up to $100 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Kunal Khullar | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: gtx super, hardware, managed

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Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-20 | by Gaurav Ramesh | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: needs, perfect, perfect software

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Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package must be restored as court rules cancellation was too extreme (cnbc.com)

2025-12-19 | by Lora Kolodny | get Electric car → | tags: court, decision, delaware supreme

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Elon Musk’s $56B Tesla pay package restored by Delaware Supreme Court (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-19 | by Sean O'Kane | get Tesla Model S → | tags: court, delaware, musk

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Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package must be restored, Delaware Supreme Court rules (cnbc.com)

2025-12-19 | by Lora Kolodny | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: court, decision, delaware

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Your AI is lying to you. (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | by Tofu Labs | get DeepMind → | tags: ai arrived, attempt, goal

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TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | by Simone Margaritelli | get Router → | tags: camera, context, firmware

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Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees (cnbc.com)

2025-12-19 | by Jennifer Elias | get Google Assistant → | tags: employees, engineers, google

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LG responds swiftly to user backlash, will allow users to remove Microsoft Copilot link from TVs — clarifies service is not an app, future update will include tile removal option from WebOS (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Luke James | get Microsoft Copilot → | tags: copilot, hardware, microsoft

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From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt? (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-19 | by Theresa Loconsolo | get Roomba → | tags: amazon, chain, equity

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HP Omen 34c G2 34-inch WQHD 180 Hz gaming monitor review: Delivering style, speed and value (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Christian Eberle | get Omen 34c → | tags: credit, hardware, image

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French authorities arrest man for installing malware on a passenger ferry on behalf of 'a foreign power' — could have enabled external control of systems, including navigation (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Luke James | get Navisafe → | tags: crew, french, investigators

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New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-19 | get BIOS → | tags: access, firmware, games

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Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jowi Morales | get BIOS → | tags: bios, boot, hardware

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Windows Server 2025 gains native NVMe support, 14 years after its introduction — groundbreaking I/O stack drops SCSI emulation limitations for massive throughput and CPU efficiency gains (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | get NVMe → | tags: drives, lower, performance

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Military standard on software control levels (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | get Operating System → | tags: action, control, dangerous

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Military Standard on Software Control Levels (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | get Software Control Levels → | tags: action, control, dangerous

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Unreal Engine 5.7 brings significant improvements over the notoriously demanding 5.4 version, tester claims — benchmark shows up to 25% GPU performance increase, 35% CPU boost (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Hassam Nasir | get Game Engine → | tags: engine, hardware, mxbenchmarkpc

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Rivian rolls out new ‘Universal Hands-Free’ driving feature (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-18 | by Sean O'Kane | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: driver, hands, owners

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HyperX SoloCast 2 Review: A built-in stand that you'll want to mount (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Podcast Stand → | tags: credit, hardware, image

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Video Game Hardware Sales Are the Worst in Decades: Here's Why You Should Buy Now (cnet.com)

2025-12-18 | by See Full Bio | get Graphics Card → | tags: circana, consoles, game

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Evidence of Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU continues to mount, as BMG-G31 chip gets another official confirmation (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Zak Killian | get GPU → | tags: battlemage, hardware, intel

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Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-17 | by Lucas Ropek | get Meta Quest → | tags: hardware, horizon, meta

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Android XR may not have to worry about pressure from Meta and Horizon OS, after all (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-17 | get Google Pixel → | tags: android, hardware, horizon

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Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Linux Kernel → | tags: articles, author, hardware