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Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an “intelligent” ML-based system handles the rollout (www.tomshardware.com)
42 minutes ago Microsoft

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only” and “Don't rely on Copilot for important advice” (www.tomshardware.com)
22 hours ago Microsoft

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands (www.tomshardware.com)
13 days ago Intel

Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the tech homogenizes game aesthetics are “completely wrong” (www.tomshardware.com)
18 days ago

MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels (www.tomshardware.com)
26 days ago MacBook

Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-3-5 Apple MacBook

Intel unveils its Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, its first data center CPUs built on 18A, offering up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores, set for a 2026 release (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-3-4 Intel

The head of Intel Foundry, Kevin O'Buckley, leaves to join Qualcomm after just two years at the company; Intel Foundry will now be headed by Naga Chandrasekaran (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-27 Intel

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-17 AI

OpenSourceMalware: 230 malicious OpenClaw extensions, disguised as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-2

AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series chips for AI PCs, with up to 12 Zen 5 CPU cores and 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, built with TSMC's N4X node, available in Q1 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-1-6 AI AMD

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chips for PCs, available in 10-core and 6-core variants, manufactured on TSMC's N3P node using Qualcomm's Oryon architecture (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-1-6

IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-12-31 AI

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-12-16 Microsoft AI

Valve unveils a new Steam Machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with SteamOS, a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and 16GB of RAM, expected in early 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-11-13 AMD

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-11-10

During an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in” (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-11-3 Microsoft Interview

Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-29 Nvidia

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-26 Microsoft AI

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-11

Intel says 18A-based Panther Lake chips can deliver 50% more performance at similar power to Lunar Lake chips, details RibbonFET efficiency gains, and more (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-10 Intel

SiPearl unveils Athena1, Europe's first high-performance CPU with up to 80 cores designed for civilian and military use, slated for commercial launch in H2 2027 (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-6 Europe

The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-5 AI

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for PCs, offering up to 18 cores, and says the latter is the first Arm chip to hit 5GHz (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-25

Nvidia and Intel announce a partnership to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share; INTC jumps 20%+ (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-18 Intel Nvidia

Apple unveils the A19 chip, with a 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU, the A19 Pro, with a 6-core CPU and 6-core GPU, the N1 networking chip, and the C1X modem (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-10 Apple

SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-3

TrendForce: global foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B in Q2, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7% and SMIC with 5% (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-9-2 Samsung

GFW Report: on August 20, China's Great Firewall blocked all TCP port 443 traffic, used for HTTPS, for 74 minutes, an unusual move; the cause may be accidental (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-8-21 China

AMD and Stability AI launch the industry's first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for AMD's XDNA 2 NPUs, designed to run locally on Ryzen laptops (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-7-22 AI AMD

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