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Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews
Premium Many of the "thousands" of bugs and vulnerabilities it found are in older software, or are impossible to exploit.
Intel's EMIB-T packaging technology set for fab rollout this year
Premium If these “billions per year” in deals close, it’d mark quite the turnaround for Intel Foundry, which generated just $307 million in external revenue last year.
PCI Express roadmap: The path to 1TB/s with PCI 8.0, the challenges of integration, and beyond
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Reviews
Alienware AW2726DM 27-inch QHD 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: A price breakthrough for desktop OLED
Alienware smashes price barriers with the AW2726DM. It’s a 27-inch QHD QD-OLED with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, and wide gamut color with an opening price of just $350.
Acer Predator GX850 SFX power supply review: Solid electrical performance with good efficiency
Solid engineering from FSP delivers reliable power in compact form, though pricing and acoustics present practical challenges.
Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K Review: 660 hours of battery life at 8 KHz
But it's a giant, full-size keyboard. Where are you going that you can't just plug it in?
Best Picks
Best OLED Gaming Monitors 2026
OLEDs are the new hot thing in gaming monitors, and prices are starting to cool off enough to make them attractive options for enthusiasts.
CPUs
New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running
Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor's individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation.
Graphics Cards
Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%
We put RTX Neural Texture Compression to the test with multiple GPUs and on a laptop.
Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X
A research team at Specops benchmarked an RTX 5090, against two AI datacenter GPUs with Hashcat to see which GPU is the better password cracker. Spoiler alert, the RTX 5090 was the winner.
Features
Our experts review your astonishing PC builds and setups in Rig Rundown — from wall-mounted setups to a system packed inside of a 1:6 scale RC car
Premium We go through user-submitted PC builds and crown a winner in the inaugural Tom's Hardware Premium Rig Rundown results
PC Components
Acer Predator GX850 SFX power supply review: Solid electrical performance with good efficiency
Solid engineering from FSP delivers reliable power in compact form, though pricing and acoustics present practical challenges.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
Deals
Newegg shaves $240 off this well-equipped RTX 5070, 7800X3D gaming PC
Plus youy get a pretty Phanteks case and higher-quality packed-in peripherals than the competition.
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News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages
In the age of “fake news” and hallucinating AI, access to historical information is more critical than ever.
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself
The very top job at Meta may periodically be delegated to an AI replica of Mark Zuckerberg. Will anyone notice?
Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM
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China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade
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