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2 days ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K has been on the streets for six months, and in those six months its performance has improved — if only a little bit. Recent retesting from Phoronix reveals that the Arrow Lake flagship has seen a 6% performance increase on average across a litany of benchmarks on Linux over its original launch testing numbers.
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2 days ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
Nvidia has just announced a new list of recently-released and upcoming games with native Nvidia DLSS support, including RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Counting the six new games discussed in Nvidia's newest blog post, DLSS and RTX support is now natively available at some level across 769 video games and applications, a number outpacing AMD and Intel's similar tech by incredible margins. DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, is Nvidia's suite of AI video and rendering upscaling enhancements.
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1 week ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
A team at Australia's Monash University has published its work on a new water filtration membrane that can successfully remove small PFAS molecules from water flow. PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a key piece in multiple facets of semiconductor manufacturing that have earned the name "forever chemicals" for their difficulty to clean up.
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2 weeks ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
AMD has officially announced its Ryzen 8000HX Series of mobile CPUs today, intended for gaming and other high-end applications. Codenamed Dragon Range Refresh, the chips serve as a refresh of AMD's Ryzen 7000HX family, AMD's highest-performance laptop CPU line that has been in production since mid-2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
The cost to prompt high-end AI LLMs has plummeted from $20 per million tokens to $0.07 per million in just 18 months, according to Stanford's 2025 AI Index Report. A panoramic view of the worldwide AI landscape, Stanford's annual report also reports a serious need for more responsible AI guardrails and a tightening race between the US and China's emerging AI tech.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Dallin Grimm
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2 weeks ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
Razer has stopped laptop sales to the United States from its own website as of April 2, 2025, the same day unprecedented new U.S. tariffs went into effect. All links formerly directing to purchase links of laptops and some laptop accessories on Razer's US site now read "Notify Me", directing users to sign up for email updates on the status of products.
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2 weeks ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
AMD's upcoming Dragon Range Refresh CPU family has had some new details revealed by a recent early listing on Chinese retailer site JD.com. The existence of the Dragon Range Refresh, or the Ryzen 8000HX line, has been known about since MSI leaked the news in January. The JD listing for an Asus laptop featuring the upcoming ROG Strix G16 2025 has been widely shared through screenshots on Weibo. The screenshot below has been widely shared and confirmed by numerous places.
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2 weeks ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
Around 60% of Nvidia's DGX and HGX AI datacenter servers may completely avoid recent U.S. tariffs, thanks to their production in Mexico. Stacy Rasgon, writing for Bernstein Private Wealth Management and one of the market's top chip analysts, found that the majority of Nvidia's datacenters going to U.S. hyperscalers might just arrive tariff-free.
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1 month ago | 
tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm
(Image credit: Shutterstock)The dreaded Akira ransomware attack has had another hole blown through its hull. Blogger Tinyhack has discovered a new exploit to brute-force the virus's encryption and has reportedly already used it to restore the data of an attacked company. Akira, a well-known ransomware cyberattack, may now be escapable by affected companies thanks to a GPU-based brute-force counterattack.
