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Tom's Hardware is a technology news site covering PC hardware, components, and consumer electronics, known for benchmarking and product reviews.
Thermal Grizzly boss der8auer's electron-microscope test finds liquid metal on copper turns into solid CuGa2, rated about 100 W/mK against copper's 400. He says nickel plating keeps that layer about 10 times thinner, Tom's Hardware reported.
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Ukraine attacked some of Yandex's biggest data centers over the past week, Tom's Hardware reports, disrupting national apps and city services. A Cloudflare report says the bot traffic moved to other hosts.
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Reviewers of NVIDIA's RTX Spark may publish chip results now but not laptop-specific verdicts before October 16, Windows Central reports. GPU performance varies by laptop, it says, so early scores belong to the machines tested.
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Tom's Hardware tested Dell, Lenovo and HP Googlebooks and found the hardware generally sound but the OS in need of more time. The review says the OS largely feels like Android and centers on the web browser.
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Cloudflare says the post-strike drop in Yandex Search traffic was almost entirely verified search crawling. Yandex.Cloud's automation moved to other hosting providers, so a falling aggregate chart cannot show whether bot threats receded.
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Tom's Hardware tested Nvidia's RTX Spark in a 128GB Surface Laptop Ultra against an M5 Max MacBook Pro on agent task time. Its headline calls local AI a strength and gaming a weak spot, but the text reviewed here ends before the AI timings.
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AnitaB.org canceled the Oct. 27-30 Grace Hopper Celebration two weeks before opening after registrations and sponsorships fell short of costs. Attendees absorb their own travel and lodging, and sponsors and recruiters must replan.
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SK hynix plans in-house H-TPU cores to run repetitive SSD I/O, claimed to draw about 2.5% of a CPU core's power and 4% of its area. VP Koo In-jae said at ISOCC 2026 that controller CPUs are at their limit on power and area.
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Intel's recent roadmaps take EMIB's bump pitch from 45 microns to about 36 and then 25, Tom's Hardware reports. Virtually all its high-end client and data center CPUs already rely on EMIB and Foveros, but 12-reticle packages remain a goal.
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Nvidia says an October 16 NBA 2K27 update makes DLSS 5 neural rendering twice as fast and cuts VRAM use at 4K by 20%. Nvidia puts the frame-rate gain at up to 40%. Those figures are the company's own until reviewers test the patch.
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Framework's Laptop 12 now ships with Intel Wildcat Lake processors in Core 3, Core 5 and Core 7 versions, Phoronix reported. Tom's Hardware found configurations often reach about $1,000 unless buyers supply their own RAM and SSD.
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TrashBench cut an RTX 3080's hotspot by about 19C by moving it on a riser cable against a case's side intake. The CPU ran 1.1C warmer in that position, TechSpot reported, so the CPU gains in that build came from other changes.
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A developer has Super Mario 64 running natively on Microsoft's 2009 Zune HD through the unofficial OpenZDK kit. The repo says it plays mostly at full speed, and it ships no ROM, so players must supply their own.
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AnyPS5's tracker lists all 1,166 tracked RDNA 1 and 2 shader instructions as implemented, a label that means its shader decoder recognizes each one. Translating them into correct SPIR-V for Vulkan is a later stage, and so is getting a game to run.
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GlobalFoundries unveiled FDX Fusion, a 7nm-class planar FD-SOI node due in production at Dresden in 2028. It claims over twice 22FDX's transistor density for automotive, edge AI and industrial chips that value low power and cost over peak performance.
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Intel said Xeon Diamond Rapids will be the last generation to support SGX, Tom's Hardware reported. Existing SGX platforms stay supported into the early 2030s, so an enclave team's nearer deadline is its first Xeon refresh after Diamond Rapids.
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San Diego County sued Polymaker on October 5, saying its marketing to ghost-gun enthusiasts turns legal filament into a firearm precursor part. The complaint concedes filament itself is legal, so the case rests on proving how Polymaker marketed it.
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Tom's Hardware data cited by dev.to puts a 64GB DDR5 kit at $1,118 in August 2026, up 485% from $191 a year earlier. Chipmakers say supply stays tight into 2028, but Citi expects prices to peak in Q2 2027.
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Sandisk's NAS 800, an endurance-tuned WD Black SN8100 rated for up to 14PB of writes, costs 45% to 65% more than that drive, Tom's Hardware found. The extra money buys about one full drive write a day for five years, so it pays off only in a NAS or workstation that writes that much.
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Omer Develioğlu says two Northend Games titles grossed $560,000 on Steam in five years and left him $73,000, about $15,000 a year. Tom's Hardware reran the numbers with little Asian exposure and no publisher and got nearly the same net, so the China-heavy mix roughly broke even, refunds included.
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