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Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors

By Jowi Morales Published

Off with their heads!

Data Centers

This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026

By Sayem Ahmed Published

A redesigned Bench tool, inside China's domestic Chipmaking efforts, breaking, and we offer a free technical breakdown of Samsung's latest memory-related announcements.

Tech Industry

Introducing Bench 2.0 — a revamped benchmark analyzer, exclusively for Tom's Hardware Premium subscribers

By Jeremy Kaplan Published

New features, new data, hundreds of benchmarks.

PC Components
Announcing the first-ever Mac Pro desktop computer

Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today

By Mark Tyson Published

20 years ago today Steve Jobs took to the Apple WWDC stage to unveil the first-ever Mac Pro desktop computer. This is when Mac workstations transitioned from PowerPC to Intel Xeon chips.

Desktops
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition card photos and unboxing

Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026

By Jowi Morales Published

This shows how dystopian the PC building industry has become.

GPUs

Elon Musk's massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape

By Anton Shilov Published

SpaceX and Tesla officially begin to build the massive Terafab facility that will be three times bigger than Samsung's Pyeongtaek campus.

Semiconductors
ABS Cyclone Aqua RTX 5060 Ti 16GB gaming PC deal

Save $370 on this 1440p gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

By Ben Stockton Published

Save $300 on this Newegg-made ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, featuring an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD for $1,399.99 right now.

Gaming PCs
mistake written on a notebook with an eraser marked delete beside it

Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo'

By Jowi Morales Published

“That was simultaneously the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had.”

Artificial Intelligence

Pre-modded RTX 2080 Ti cards with 22 GB of VRAM surface on eBay for $500

By Jeffrey Kampman Published

Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.

GPUs
high voltage electricity transmission line towers

After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure

By Jowi Morales Published

This move should prevent future electricity price increases.

Data Centers
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