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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute

49 days ago tomshardware.com

Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen

31 days ago tomshardware.com

Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision

32 days ago tomshardware.com

Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam

36 days ago tomshardware.com

Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army; autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range

38 days ago tomshardware.com drone ford

Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions

39 days ago tomshardware.com ai china

MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested

34 days ago tomshardware.com

Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction to noise pollution

32 days ago tomshardware.com ai

Memory maker CXMT overtakes Tencent to become China's most valuable company 17 days after its IPO — now worth $524 billion

48 days ago tomshardware.com china ipo tencent

Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation - energy and water consumption, air quality, noise…

44 days ago tomshardware.com