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Memory shortage spurs smartphone makers to melt used memory off old devices, then re-solder it onto new products — recycled memory to keep budget phones affordable; 'reballing' adoption to double by 2027

6 days ago tomshardware.com

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

13 days ago tomshardware.com japan sony

'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…

13 days ago tomshardware.com ai database

Techie uses voltage glitching hack to turn $2,500 Nvidia 8GB cryptomining GPU into a full-fat $20,000 A100 with 80GB of VRAM — hack carefully blows onboard fuses to unlock entire VRAM and shader modules

3 days ago tomshardware.com gpu nvidia

Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits to prevent game cloning — users report Opus 5.5 is also actively blocking reverse engineering tasks

13 days ago tomshardware.com game

California county deploys autonomous firefighting drones with 500-gallon foam payload to attack wildfires

14 days ago tomshardware.com california drone

Hundreds arrested after Microsoft data center protest turns violent

7 days ago tomshardware.com microsoft

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

13 days ago tomshardware.com

macOS on PC becomes possible again thanks to Apple Silicon translator for x86-64

2 days ago tomshardware.com apple macos

Supermarket freezers across Europe struck in second crippling cyberattack — hackers raise temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius in Belgium and Sweden, destroying food stocks

13 days ago tomshardware.com europe

Nintendo Switch 2 Q2 2026 sales dropped by 41% from 2025 due to console's price increase — pressure to release more big games to make up for shortfall

9 days ago tomshardware.com game nintendo release

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

11 days ago tomshardware.com ai game nintendo

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

11 days ago tomshardware.com amd intel

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…

6 days ago tomshardware.com ai

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

13 days ago tomshardware.com drone ukraine

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

14 days ago tomshardware.com ai openai samsung

Intel shifts production capacity from consumer to server CPUs in face of 'unprecedented' AI demand — company navigating 'one of the most significant supply shortages in history'

14 days ago tomshardware.com ai intel

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

14 days ago tomshardware.com lenovo

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

9 days ago tomshardware.com ai risc

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

14 days ago tomshardware.com drone

Disgruntled software developers start ambitious open-source revolt, using AI to clone common services — OccupySaaS AI-powered project wants to kick Auth0, Salesforce…

11 days ago tomshardware.com ai

Claude asked to renumber pages deletes professor's syllabus, year of notes

26 hours ago tomshardware.com

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…

7 days ago tomshardware.com gpu microsoft

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…

13 days ago tomshardware.com malware windows

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

13 days ago tomshardware.com lawsuit spacex

Laser-armed AI submarine robots patrol Norwegian salmon farms, killing sea lice

4 days ago tomshardware.com ai

Japanese arcades suffer week-long blackout following Sega server hack — Bandai Namco titles resume trial operations as Sega games remain offline

7 days ago tomshardware.com game japan trial

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

14 days ago tomshardware.com ai

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

13 days ago tomshardware.com google

'Ghost Students' using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities — DOJ's Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring faking online college attendance, unsuspecting victims saddled with student debt they didn’t sign up for