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Dell CEO unveils new 'Dude, you’re getting a Dell (AI server rack)' video — PC maker recycles famous PC ad campaign to tout its new AI data center products
Dell has created a humorous 2026 update to its iconic early-2000s “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” series of commercials.…
Company CEO Michael Dell shared a brief new 10-second commercial this …
com/TyXlFIR9f1August 15, 2026The revamped AI era ‘Dude, you’re getting…
Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback
A maker known as Makestreme has printed an entire two-minute song onto a sheet of paper, publishing the full build and source code on Hackster.…
The trick is Meta's EnCodec neural audio codec, which crunched a 2.
9MB MP3 down to roughly 21KB of latent tokens, a reduction of about 1,…
Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 $48,000 flying-wing
A drone that destroyed a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia's Engels-2 air base last month turns out to be a MICH 2000, a reverse-engineered copy of a Chinese aircraft Beijing refused to sell to Ukraine, according to a factory report from defense outlet Oboronka.…
Built by an unnamed manufacturer exclusively for the SBU's 'Alpha' spe…
It’s understood that Ukrainian developers covertly photographed the Ch…
Critical macOS Screen Sharing flaw gives attackers remote root access — CISA bumps bug to 9.8 severity following active Monero cryptojacking attacks
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) reported on August 12 that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-65400, an authentication bypass in macOS Screen Sharing, to compromise Macs with port 5900 exposed to the Internet.…
In every case reported to the agency, attackers obtained root access a…
Apple patched the flaw on August 6 in an out-of-band update covering m…
Intel says it will launch new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in data center — VP Robert Hallock hopes enthusiasts ‘do the math’ compared to AMD
Intel will launch its new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in the data center.…
Tom’s Hardware Premium recently sat down with Intel VP and general man…
Hallock opened up about Intel’s enthusiast roadmap and said the compan…
3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights
Privacy concerns and multiple incidents have led many citizens to take it upon themselves to block or disable Flock cameras.…
They often do this either by placing black trash bags over them or by …
Now, the former can be dangerous, especially if you don’t have equipme…
3D-printed sound-powered jet engines propel micro drones — fliers are completely silent; researchers use ultrasonic frequencies to drive 12,000-RPM silent hovering fliers
(Image credit: EPFL/Science Advance)A research team from Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Microbiorobotic Systems Laboratory (MICROBS) has developed a “sound-powered engine” that uses the resonant frequency of a specially shaped 3D-printed cavity to “energize” the air inside it and use it for thrust.…
The researchers then 3D-printed two small drones that were propelled b…
Sound waves at specific frequencies made the air molecules in these ob…
Modern OLEDs are just as vulnerable to burn-in as 2017 panels in 10,000-hour test — twice the brightness and 27% efficiency gains offer crucial headroom
Rtings.com is back with another longevity test for OLED TVs — this time, comparing newer models from 2020 to 2023 against an older model from 2017.…
Results show that units from either era develop similar burn-in after …
But modern TVs are much brighter and use less power, which can mitigat…
Ex-farm bureau chief invites AI data center developers to buy his land —argues blocked $6.3B project will just move to willing neighbors, defies 500-jurisdiction moratorium wave and 70% public opposit
Blake Hurst, a farmer in Atchison County, Missouri, who led the Missouri Farm Bureau from 2010 to 2020, invited data center developers to bid on his land in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, writing, "Developers, make me an offer.…
" His farm sits roughly 40 miles from the proposed White Cloud Acres p…
3 billion and that county commissioners halted on July 21 with a morat…
Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph — LA to NYC correspondence takes 22 hours to deliver; virtual birds can get distracted or
Are you perturbed by the hectic pace of modern life and the attention-seeking immediacy of instant messaging (IM) platforms?…
Do you even find email a bit too high-octane?
Developer Noah Larrobino may have the solution you seek with the new C…
Ukrainian drone regiment ‘decimates’ 3,500-strong U.S. armored brigade combat team in war game — High drone kill-rate forced continuous 'respawns,' reveals shortcomings in American response as drones
The 3rd Brigade Combat Team (3rd BCT) of the 1st Cavalry Division took part in the semi-annual Combined Resolve exercise in Germany, where it faced off with a dedicated U.…
Army OPFOR (opposing force) unit augmented by the 412th Unmanned Syste…
According to the Wall Street Journal, the 3,500-strong unit, which was…
Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $1,499, saving $600 off list price — Acer Nitro 85 prebuilt comes with 16GB of RAM, Core Ultra 7 265F, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Prebuilt PCs usually get a bad rep but during these difficult times, they're actually a beacon of light as we navigate the component crisis.…
We've found a great deal on one such system — the Acer Nitro 85.
It comes with an RTX 5070 graphics card and a 20-core Core Ultra 7 265…
Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000
We’ve seen many innovative projects crash and burn at the crowdfunding stage, but the Photon Matrix is one that has successfully made it to market.…
According to the company’s last Indiegogo update, it has started mass …
You can also now purchase the Photon Matrix Infrared and Blue Laser Mo…
Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Seagate a close second on most unreliable list
Economists Christoph Siemroth of the University of Essex and Yeomyung Park of Sungkyunkwan University have published a peer-reviewed IEEE study that re-crunches 12 years of Backblaze's public drive data, covering 443,156 hard drives and more than 1.…
66 million drive-years from 2013 through Q2 2025, and finds that HGST …
WD comes in at about 52% of Seagate's failure rate, while Toshiba sits…
Nvidia turns $5B Intel stock bet into $30B windfall — filing reveals new $21B SpaceX stake and complete exit from Arm stock
Nvidia’s $5 billion purchase of Intel stock last year, made as part of the companies’ strategic AI infrastructure partnership announced in September, has become a highly lucrative investment, generating nearly $25 billion, the company revealed in an SEC filing this week.…
In addition, Nvidia owns nearly $21 billion worth of SpaceX stock and …
With quarterly revenue exceeding $80 billion and net income approachin…
Devs blame Windows for VLC media player bug that causes 33-second delay when playing MP3 files — creators allege Microsoft Defender blocking plugin cache is to blame
Popular open-source media player VLC has run into an unusual issue on Windows 11 that causes it to take as long as 33 seconds to start playing a simple MP3 file, the side effect of a recent unexplained change to Windows.…
The issue was publicized after game developer Jonathan Blow said he ha…
He also used the incident to criticize the state of open-source softwa…
White House authorizes private companies to launch 'hack-back' cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on August 12 establishing the first U.…
program that lets vetted private companies conduct offensive cyber ope…
Participating firms must post at least $1 million in escrow, forfeited…
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D faceoff — seeing double with Zen 4 X3D
AMD recently expanded its X3D lineup with the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, a new entry that slots in below the Ryzen 7 7800X3D as a more affordable way to get 3D V-Cache on the AM5 platform.…
Launched on July 16 at $329, the 7700X3D is essentially built from the…
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D, on the other hand, needs no introduction at this …
US Navy 3D prints combat-ready drones and 1,000+ parts aboard aircraft carrier during exercise — containerized factory fabricated 80-mph FPVs and critical spares despite rough seas and 12-foot waves
During a two-week transit to RIMPAC 2026 in Hawaii, a containerized factory aboard the USS Essex 3D printed a dozen flight-ready drones, as well as over 1,000 parts including vital spares for Apache helicopters.…
3D Printing Industry reports that this was the first maritime run of t…
Furthermore, production wasn’t halted by the rough seas and up to 12 f…
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Robert Hallock, and a big week for optical
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SK hynix runs out of replacement SSDs and defaults to original purchase price refunds — fine-print warranty clause shortchanges buyers as drive prices double
Although SK hynix is primarily known as a memory maker, the South Korean company also produces high-quality consumer SSDs, many of which previously earned spots on our list of the best SSDs.…
Recently, a Reddit user said they reached out to SK hynix for a warran…
However, with SSD prices soaring due to a global storage shortage, a r…
Engineer used 360-degree cam hidden in bag of snacks in attempt to steal DRAM process tech for China — IT security team pinpointed perp due to camera's leaky wireless signals
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Intel says PC market is ‘a tale of two kingdoms’ with mainstream ‘taking a beating’ — VP suggests a split between mainstream and enthusiast sockets across the industry
Intel’s Robert Hallock, vice president and general manager of the enthusiast channel business, believes that the consumer market will see a split in sockets for mainstream and enthusiast platforms to address the rising costs of PCs for cash-strapped buyers.…
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