Tom's Hardware 14 hr ago

Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino

Intel and Apple have reportedly reached a deal in which the former will manufacture chips for the latter.

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Tom's Hardware 18 hr ago

North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang

Two Americans have been sentenced to prison for helping North Korean operatives infiltrate nearly 70 US companies through fraudulent remote IT jobs, enabling...

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Tom's Hardware 20 hr ago

Maingear MG-1 (2026) review: Fast and clean, for a price

The Maingear MG-1 offers a super-clean build in case with personalization options, but the front panel could use some more ports.

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Tom's Hardware 20 hr ago

Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026'

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

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Tom's Hardware 20 hr ago

AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent

More jurisdictions across the United States have been enacting a data center ban, with the total number of active bans reaching 50 as of April 2026.

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Tom's Hardware 21 hr ago

Testing the top Thunderbolt 5 docks with up to 140W Power Delivery, 10 GbE, and even internal M.2 SSD slots — Razer, CalDigit, Hyper, Ivanky, and WAVLINK go head-to-head

We’ve tested the top Thunderbolt 5 docks on the market, combining six into one battle for the crown.

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Tom's Hardware 21 hr ago

Save $444 on this top-tier gaming PC combo with Asus Prime RTX 5070, Ryzen 9850X3D, X870E motherboard, and 32GB of RAM — world's fastest gaming CPU meets copious amount of RAM

Newegg’s latest combo deal packs AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, an Asus X870E motherboard, RTX 5070 graphics card, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM into a nearly complete AM5 ga...

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Tom's Hardware 21 hr ago

The Middle East had everything data center builders and hyperscalers could wish for — then the Iran war happened

The Middle East has been a hotspot for investment into data centers, with multiple large projects in planning, attracting wide global investment. But that be...

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Tom's Hardware 21 hr ago

Save $575 off this stellar gaming PC armed with a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 memory — $1424.99 ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC prebuilt costs less than some of its parts

A 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM are highlights of this great value ABS Flux II Aqua prebuilt gaming PC.

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Tom's Hardware 21 hr ago

Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment against his business

Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against ...

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Tom's Hardware 22 hr ago

Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

The offers go well beyond standard long-term supply agreements.

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Tom's Hardware 22 hr ago

Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots

Hard drives are so expensive now that archival efforts are being hurt as a result of the AI boom snatching all production lines. Organizations like Wikimedia...

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