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- November 8
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- Diamond Foundry creates world's first 200mm single-crystal diamond wafer — massive gem aims to solve AI chip cooling crisis, envisioned as a cooling material for semiconductors
- Logitech G502 X Lightspeed Review: No lights, same price
- Japanese arcades suffer week-long blackout following Sega server hack — Bandai Namco titles resume trial operations as Sega games remain offline
- The end of an era as Linux 7.5 purges the last 30-year-old Intel MMX optimizations from Pentium age — open-source OS retires ancient 1997 Pentium instructions to streamline code
- Ukraine builds combat robots to hunt Russian troops in underground gas pipelines — UGVs adapted following 15-kilometer subterranean assault
- Nvidia released its 8800 GTX GPU 20 years ago today, celebrates with Steam game homage with insane system requirements — interactive demo's eye-watering minimum requirements include RTX 4070, 32GB RAM, and 30GB storage
- Free open-source GPU task manager reveals exactly what's eating your VRAM — Microsoft VP's new GPU Taskman tool reveals every process using your GPU, how much memory each uses, and breaks down AI and LLM workloads
- Hundreds arrested after Microsoft data center protest turns violent — Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition demands halt to AI data center expansion; Dutch police seize break-in tools, suspected stolen items from construction site
- Two Chinese companies cleared to buy banned Nvidia AI chips have empty offices and unknown addresses — investigation reveals businesses have ties to sanctioned Chinese military suppliers
- PC's with 64GB of RAM plummet 18% as memory prices soar — CPU-Z install base data shows DDR4 making a surprise comeback
- Homelabber uses second-gen Optane memory sticks to run a 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model on CPU alone — warns that Optane's extreme heat can 'burn out' nearby memory DRAM, used blower fans to prevent melting RAM
- Pocket-sized Ukrainian receiver intercepts Russian strike drone video feeds up to six miles away — device only slightly heavier than a smartphone, intercepts analog video signals sent to Russian operators
- WoW: Forever launch used 70,480 CPU cores and 251 terabytes of RAM — 3,924 virtual machines powered one of World of Warcraft's smoothest launches ever
- PC air duster motors power 21-inch DIY remote control plane at 130,000 RPM — $23 air duster power styrofoam A10 Warthog-style RC plane, hits the skies much faster than expected
- November 7
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- This RTX 5060 gaming PC costs less than the Steam Machine — grab the iBuyPower Slate prebuilt PC with massive $500 discount
- This week in Tom's Hardware Premium: November 7, 2026 — Micron roadmap, Apple's touchscreen ambitions, GlobalFoundries interview, and much more
- US intelligence believes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had affair with Chinese spy in honeypot operation — spy suspect linked to company accused of smuggling $2 billion in AI chips
- Grab a new Elegoo 3D printer from as little as $159 right now, thanks to Black Friday sale, now live — early discounts mean you can score up to 54% off filament and resin machines, perfect for pro hobbyists and beginners
- TeamGroup GA Pro 2TB SSD Review: A faltering attempt at a mid-range PCIe 5.0 SSD
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang officially called to Congress due to reports of a Chinese spy plot — officials mention growing concerns over national security
- TSMC denies exploring 3D DRAM at Nvidia's request — advanced memory tech is still years from market viability
- New Bluetooth High Data Throughput may finally satisfy audiophiles — Bluetooth HDT offers a maximum bandwidth of 7.5Mbps, allowing true lossless transmission
- Enthusiast abandons self-hosted Microsoft Exchange after 27 years, moving mailboxes to Microsoft 365 — replaces final on-premises relay with Postfix, STARTTLS, and Let's Encrypt certificates
- EA producer found 20,000 archival media assets in secret physical vault at its HQ — Betacam, VHS, and D1 tapes among 6000 assets digitized to remaster seven classic games
- US FAA to eliminate floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 — new system will centralize flight alerts, restricted airspace schedules, and pilot reports
- November 6
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- GlobalFoundries VP details FDX Fusion technology, sporting 7nm-class performance without the need for EUV tools — company targets 2030 for high-volume manufacturing, with planar transistors in tow
- Elegoo M1 Ultra review: A good first entry into the scanner market
- Protesters storm Microsoft AI data center construction site — Amsterdam reportedly first of 85 targeted actions across Europe
- Nvidia tightens tracking of AI GPUs in Southeast Asia as Chinese chip smuggling draws scrutiny, report claims — cloud providers must join monitoring program to qualify for official partner status
- Six pallets of Nvidia GPUs worth $11.4 million stolen in California cargo heist — authorities investigate after truck posing as a food transport company disappears
- Save 26% on this 142-piece toolkit for your PC repairs and hobbyist projects, now under $28 — precision screwdriver kit includes 120 magnetic bits and 20 different repair tools for your next project
- Nvidia wants to repurpose over 130 old telco buildings as tiny data centers, report claims — company in talks with Brightspeed after pitching idea to parent company Apollo Global Management
- Rogue Claude AI tasked with renumbering pages accidentally deletes law professor's entire syllabus, one year of lecture notes — 'You're right to be angry. I deleted your files through my own carelessness,' humbled agent admits
- Tesla unveils AI accelerator roadmap, adopts new 'SI' branding in 'Super Intelligence' push — SI6 to bring 80X more compute performance, Dojo 3 headed to space
- Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake needs new motherboards — what we expect from Nova Point and Z990, Z970, and B960 chipsets
- Score a huge $600 saving on this RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop from HP, now under $2,100 — HyperX Omen Max 16 machine is fully customizable, base model ships with 16GB DDR5 and a 512GB SSD
- Gelsinger-backed Nagare Labs’ capacitorless Z2RAM promises SRAM speed with DRAM density — latest published cell retains data for over 300 seconds at 85°C, but further figures are projected
- Nintendo’s latest Zelda remake already circulating online as a Switch 2 ROM — OpenAI-assisted software jailbreak, new game dumper let pirates share game for free, immediately following release
- November 5
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- Grab a Nintendo Switch 2 controller upgrade from $49, just in time for Zelda: Ocarina of Time's remaster — secure the tools to defeat Ganondorf with these top wireless gamepads from 8BitDo, GameSir and others
- Combined flaws let anyone into Alpine Linux and other distros by typing anything over 256 characters as a password — emergency fixes for OpenSSH and musl-libc issued for millions of systems, patch immediately
- India targets creating homegrown GPUs within 2 years and plans to commercialize indigenous SHAKTI and VEGA RISC-V processors — sees AI boom as a potential repeat of the Y2K opportunity for its IT industry
- Chinese AI lab Moonshot reportedly looked at European data centers to access Nvidia chips, report claims — Kimi-maker primarily interested in inferencing capacity, but also asked about training clusters
- Nintendo Switch 2 sales dropped by 41% from last year due to console's price increase — pressure to release more big games to make up for shortfall
- Ditch the headset: How HDMI eARC unlocks lossless surround and Dolby Atmos for PC gaming
- UPERFECT GR14BU portable monitor review: A 120 Hz 3K OLED touch display at a killer price
- Intel leaker claims Nova Lake desktop chips have 5.1 GHz clock limit beyond 90°C — high clock speeds could demand significant cooling for next-gen chips
- Micron's $4.5 billion Taoyuan plant construction halted amidst labor dispute — company and union still haven’t reached agreement as latter asks for clearer profit-sharing terms
- Apple MacBook Pro (14-inch, M6) review: Speedy M6 chip slips into comfortable shoes
- Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: The screen that every Mac deserves
- Boost your Nintendo Switch 2's storage for Zelda: Ocarina of Time with these microSD Express deals, starting at $48 — make room for Hyrule with these high-speed cards that double or triple your game storage
- Congresswoman calls for artificial superintelligence ban after Democrats' seismic midterm sweep — demands regulation of 'out of control' industry and pause on advanced AI
- This $79.98 TP-Link wireless router with Wi-Fi 7 tech is back down to its lowest-ever price — Archer BE3600 unlocks multi-gigabit networking, ideal for gaming or 4K streaming with 33% off
- Two dead, five injured in Taiwan PCB factory explosion — Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials facility fire prompts emergency response
- Hackers target French blood service fridges following supermarket attacks — Russia-aligned hackers claim intrusions are just to expose bad security
- Marvell to buy Lumentum in $115 billion all-stock deal — combined company to supply scale-up and scale-in optics for AI data centers
- SpaceX plans to build more data center compute than Google's entire lifetime capacity in just 1.5 years — analysts say target is realistic, SpaceX to build staggering 10 gigawatts of compute in 2027 alone
- Anthropic loosens Claude's game cloning ban — AI will now offer to build original games in the requested genre
- Grab a huge 44% saving on a 4K 43-inch Samsung smart monitor, now under $280 — limited-time Woot! discount on dual-use display that'll work as a home office screen or standalone smart TV
- November 4
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- Nintendo ROM chip supplier Macronix quits to focus on chips for AI data centers, reports indicate — Game-Key cards may increase as large game storage chips become more expensive
- Bluetti’s new modular home backup station scales up to 100 kWh — early deals live
- T-Mobile launches $90 5 Gbps fiber internet plan — 2.5x speed boost comes with 10-year price guarantee
- Team Group CEO warns memory crisis could reach point where 'even money can't buy goods' — will get worse next year, with 'no downward trend in price whatsoever'
- Logitech G Pro X3 Superstrike Review: $200 for the illusion of a click
- Thermal Grizzly launches PhaseSheet PTM Pro with improved thermal conductivity — new thermal pad promises easier installation and better cooling performance
- Micron details ambitious DRAM and NAND roadmap — 3D NAND, High-NA EUV, new materials, and custom silicon makes a comeback
- AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections — 45 measures put on the ballot as Americans overwhelmingly vote against developments
- $6 billion Binance heist began with fake job interviews and a malicious Homebrew download — attackers used adulterated software and social engineering to gain access to billions in assets
- PHP vulnerability post-mortem reveals bug was known two years ago — Small team of maintainers knew of the issue before it was made public, as new PHP2Shell chained exploit ravages servers
- Nvidia can only fulfill 1% of China’s massive $70 billion GPU order for AI chips, report claims — supply constraints choke export-friendly RTX Pro 5500 deliveries despite huge demand
- Cloudflare engineers optimize DNS build services for twice the speed and 85% lower RAM usage — finer-grained processes only do work and data movement that's needed
- Open source project renders your Windows 11 desktop using the NPU rather than the GPU — ‘npu-driver’ can only run at 2 to 3 Hz, targets 30 Hz performance
- Upgrade to an OLED display for only $269 at Walmart — Acer's 27-inch Nitro gaming monitor has a superfast 240Hz refresh rate and crisp WQHD resolution
- Disgruntled software developers start ambitious open-source revolt, using AI to clone common services — OccupySaaS AI-powered project wants to kick Auth0, Salesforce, and other pricy service-as-software to the curb
- Save $300 on this 1440p gaming PC with a 9800X3D and RTX 5070 right now — pre-built CyberPowerPC machine ships with 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD for just $2,199.99
- AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history — $17B guidance would exceed Intel's projections
- Certified Android TV manufacturer put unauthorized backdoor in 1.3 million set-top boxes, Google reveals — OEM sold access to criminal affiliates, used massive network as botnet for ad fraud, residential proxy
- US Army successfully flies a hybrid electric drone with 3D-printed heavy-fuel rotary engine — uses advanced engineering to ditch a bulky liquid cooling system
- November 3
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- Windows 11 8GB RAM configurations get a performance boost — As AI demand keeps pushing prices up, Microsoft says Windows is now 20% more responsive, multitasking 40% faster on memory-constrained machines
- OpenAI introduces program to reduce AI data center energy demand during peak hours — company testing Grid Protectors Program system in Georgia
- Intel 14A moves closer to production as PDK 0.9 becomes available — plans to release PDK 1.0 in the first quarter of 2027
- Elon Musk's xAI installs eight converted jet engines to power Mississippi data center — permits allow 25 percent higher limit for pollutants, concerns raised over carbon monoxide
- Apple faces unprecedented memory cost increases as RAM prices continue to surge, manufacturing bill climbs by $33 billion — rising component expenses threaten margins through the holiday quarter and into 2027
- Hands-on with the DockCase Mount Ling 2 Pro — handheld dock with a built-in capture card and space for up to 4TB of NVMe storage
- Bambu Lab H3C 3D printer review: A nine-tool monster
- Nvidia tells data center operators to limit business from Chinese customers with new global restrictions, report claims — allegedly restricted to 49% of the total, ensuring 51% are non-Chinese outfits
- Corsair has slashed $180 off its blistering MP700 SE Gen 5 SSD, now 14 cents per GB — get 4TB of SSD storage for $579, the cheapest drive on the market
- Google reveals new Gemini 4 Carbon AI model, narrowly beating Claude Opus 5.5 — frontier AI model is also the least likely to hallucinate, benchmarks claim
- China deploys 'world's first' 800-volt DC power system for massive AI data center — seeks to quench power needs with higher conversion and efficiency inside a smaller footprint
- Chinese survey ship loitering near undersea cable ignores Philippine demands to withdraw — evasive action point to growing PRC threats to data lines in the Pacific
- Engineer creates retro FPGA Game Boy console that can rip your cartridges to an SD card natively — features HDMI, USB-C, and even has Game Link Cable support
- Snag this 360Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor for only $349 — sumptuous 27-inch display also features an integrated Wi-Fi antenna
- AI chip smugglers exploit trade control loophole to bring banned HBM from South Korea into China — expensive memory chips packaged with cheap, unsanctioned processors to become legal exports
- Steam Survey shockwaves felt as proportion of 32GB RAM systems drops by more than 5% — the percentage of PC gamers with 1TB+ total storage also shrunk by nearly 5%
- Developer manages to run Windows 11 26H2 with just 128MB of RAM, just 3.1% of recommended minimum — stripped-down installation can access Desktop, File Explorer, and Notepad
- Grab a huge $1,229 saving on this 18-inch Alienware gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 — Area-51 machine packs a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD for $2,449.99
- Amazon closes AI creator's account after he attempts to buy seven Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs — Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says his regular orders were canceled before arrival after he tried to buy two GPUs
- November 2
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- OpenAI considers rebranding data centers to 'AI compute campuses" as data center backlash intensifies — company reportedly sees 2028 presidential election becoming an 'AI issue'
- Tachyum, developer of heavily-delayed universal Prodigy processor, voluntarily files for bankruptcy — future of Prodigy IP unknown as company begins bankruptcy proceedings [Updated]
- Putin demands Russian data centers supply capacity to the state in wake of Ukraine drone attacks — 10% capacity must be available for state IT infrastructure with 24 hours' notice
- Creality K3 Review: It’s a Tool Changer, not a game changer
- 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 hiked to $385, more than triple its launch price — makers are already shifting to Pico/ESP32 for small projects, mini PCs for more ambitious tasks
- 'America hates data centers,' new database reveals more than 90% of 10,000 public comments are negative, only 21% mention AI — 73% of meetings had no data center supporters, water is the number one concern
- Gamer's Asus TUF monitor blocks bullet fired through wall during Call of Duty session — says 280Hz monitor is 'the best $280 I ever spent'
- Apple finally has a touchscreen MacBook. Why now?
- Nvidia Brev security breach may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer VMs — investigation finds unauthorized activity spanning 16 days, but no evidence of misuse
- AI model gets a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled directly into its weights, then runs DOOM on it — experimental AI model can run Doom and C code using its own weights as RAM
- Google data center wins approval in Minnesota after protests delay council vote twice — 200-acre project moves forward despite opposition from local residents, tech giant scales down project and drops $80 million tax break request
- Triple your Nintendo Switch 2's storage for just $99 — save $50 on this ultra-fast 512GB Samsung P9 microSD card for a limited-time only
- Hackers claim to have stolen 23TB of data from Russian statistics body, including Ukraine war casualty figures — Russian Federal State Statistics Service admits its servers were hit by coordinated cyberattacks
- Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits to prevent game cloning — users report Opus 5.5 is also actively blocking reverse engineering tasks
- Elon Musk mocks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that PCs having RAM is terrible — 'The people deserve to have their RAM too!'
- SpaceX loses bid to dismiss lawsuit over xAI data center pollution — facility allegedly emits over 5,000 tons of nitrogen oxides and 47 tons of cancer-causing formaldehyde annually
- Grab a $450 saving on this 4K-ready gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB DDR5 right now — ABS rig from Newegg ships with 24-core Intel CPU and a 2TB SSD for $2,549.99
- Sony's final 4K Blu-ray player listed as out of stock in Japan, firm may be preparing to abandon standalone players — retailers reportedly told not to expect new stock of its remaining model
- Military explores commercial 5G networks for enemy drone defense — AI agents developed the system recently used in battlefield trials in Latvia
- Supermarket freezers across Europe struck in second crippling cyberattack — hackers raise temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius in Belgium and Sweden, destroying food stocks
- November 1
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- New AI-driven Windows malware feeds stolen data to Claude to rank victims’ assets by value, then deletes itself — payload builds custom target assessment, can switch models if one refuses, or skip the AI step entirely
- GOG explores reviving physical PC game releases — digital storefront needs publisher approvals, has to figure out the logistics and legal challenges
- Snag a Nintendo Switch 2 for only $469 while stock lasts — $30 off a system that's not often on sale
- Walmart honors massive shelf price mistake, lucky buyer gets two $2,299 CyberPowerPC gaming rigs for $1,099 each — scores PCs with Ryzen 9 9900X3D and RTX 5070 at huge discount
- Brazilian lawyers busted for attempting to manipulate court's AI with prompt injection hidden in filing — court's AI flags hidden text that demanded superficial legal scrutiny, lawyers fined $16,000
- Biwin M560 2TB SSD Review: The DRAM-less drive to beat
- Anycubic and Thingiverse announce exclusive 3D printing partnership — MakerOnline platform to offer '1-click' multicolor 3MF models
- Bambu Lab's Black Friday sale cuts up to $300 on the flagship H2C printer and more — deep cuts across company's 3D printer and filament lineup
- Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages — OpenAI CEO travels to South Korea to meet Samsung leadership to discuss future AI data centers
- Open-source USB tool unlocks Nvidia's half-speed GPU AI limiter on Windows — lifts GPU's FP16 math performance up to 65%, UEFI unlocker covers RTX 20, 30, and 40-series desktops and laptops
- Police Chief physically unplugs Flock cameras after the company ignores contract cancellation — city takes matters into its own hands amid privacy controversies
- Elon Musk says Neuralink is ready to cure blindness — says Blindsight will ‘enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see’
- Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products (updated)
- AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy
- California county deploys autonomous firefighting drones with 500-gallon foam payload to attack wildfires — five-drone strike team can be controlled by a single operator, conduct nighttime ops, and access difficult terrain
- Voyager 1 probe to hit historic one light-day distance from Earth in 17 days — 49-year-old spacecraft travels 16 billion miles and survives nearly ten times the length of its original five-year mission
- USAF successfully tests dropping SpaceX Starfall cargo drop pods from space — 2,200-pound capsule drops military supplies in the Pacific to test StarCraft-like supply drops
- College student unofficially breaks world record for fastest jet-powered drone with 491 mph aircraft built in his dorm — Reaper aims to grab the $800,000 Boom Prize