Startups
SoftBank seeks $100 billion for AI-refined projects from Middle Eastern investors
SoftBank plans to buy companies that do not use AI or robotics, then apply new technologies to improve their operations and valuation.
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Super Micro smuggling co-conspirator pleads guilty to sending AI chips to China
Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, one of the three people charged of smuggling Super Micro servers with advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, has pleaded guilty, with sentencing set for September of next year.
Gaming
PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to — after PS2 breakthrough, homebrew dev confirms PS3 disc support is next for PS5
Modder Sword has released PS5SX2 for the PlayStation 5, allowing gamers to play discs from previous PlayStation 2 games.
Hardware
This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 10, 2026
This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium, we covered how the AI buildout is affecting the industry supporting it across all axioms, including in law, chip design, manufacturing, and finance.
Hardware
Senate investigation says that some AI data center claims are misleading
A Senate investigation on AI data centers question that costs and benefits that AI hyperscalers show when they apply for permits to put up their developments. The report says that these claims are misleading and that they don’t show the real impact of these sites on the local economy.
Gaming
We tested gaming performance in 17-year-old Windows 7 on a modern gaming PC against Windows 11
We managed to install Windows 7 on a modern PC and put it to the test across eight DirectX 11 games and two DirectX 9 titles to see how its gaming performance compares to Windows 11 today.
Hardware
Top AI labs reportedly planning for catastrophic AI event fallout
One focus of these contingency plans is how to manage Congress after a catastrophic event puts these labs in the spotlight.
Gaming
Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan
Easy Fox were surprised by the number of users and didn’t expect that the demo’s popularity would cause its AI expenses to go that high.
Hardware
Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs
Nvidia reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 5090-series products leaving GB202 for data center and professional graphics boards. GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB rumored to become de-facto flagship from the green camp for a while.
Hardware
Russian modder slaps DLSS 5 onto Pac-Man with 4x Multipass
Russian YouTube channel dedicated to DLSS 5 experiments tries Pac-Man, and it’s genuinely cursed.
Gaming
AnyPS5 project reaches critical GPU milestone in race to enable running PS5 games natively on PC
The open-source AnyPS5 project has reached 100% GPU shader instruction coverage.
Hardware
Crazed modder straps 360mm AIO radiator to laptop, cuts temps to below 40 degrees
PC modder TrashBench attached a 360mm radiator and custom cooling to a laptop and gained up to 14% in performance at the cost of the definition of a laptop.
Hardware
Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline
Following a Ukrainian drone strike on a D.C. in Sasovo, Russia, a Yandex facility in Kaluga has suffered a similar fate with multiple modules completely out of service.
Hardware
World’s first 3D-printed remote control aircraft with a jet turbine takes flight, aims for Mach 0.8 to beat world record for fastest model aircraft
Team of graduates attempts to beat Guiness World Record for fastest jet-powered model aircraft using PETG and clever engineering.
Hardware
Gigabyte’s latest BIOS update hints at Intel’s Raptor Lake Next Launch in 2027
Gigabyte confirms BIOS support for upcoming Intel LGA 1700 processors on B760 and H610 motherboards, with the rumored Raptor Lake Next lineup expected in early 2027 to support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory.
Hardware
This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is still the absolute best $1,299 you can spend — RTX 5060 and 5050 models also see up to $450 off
Check out the best deals on gaming laptops with the GeForce RTX 5070, RTX 5060, and RTX 5050 right now for under $1,300.
Hardware
Microsoft 365 slashes storage capacity for shared accounts amid industry-wide shortages
This effectively increases the costs for large users, although it may benefit those who have family members that don’t take up much cloud storage space.
Hardware
PC shipments tumble over 20% in 3Q26 as chip shortages bite
PC shipments for the third quarter of 2026 drop by 15.8 million units, with Lenovo, HP, and Dell being hit the hardest. Memory chip manufacturers estimate that the situation will not improve until 2028 or 2029, even as Acer believes that PC prices will decline by late 2027.
Artificial Intelligence
Mistral’s new Large 4 trails some Chinese open models in independent tests
Artificial Analysis scores Mistral’s new Large 4 at 38, behind open models from Xiaomi, Z.ai, Moonshot, and DeepSeek.
Hardware
Grab this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor from ASRock for the super low price of $596
Save 33% on the 32-inch ASRock Phantom Gaming 4K OLED gaming monitor at Newegg.
Hardware
Save $200 on the 2026 M5 MacBook Air right now, undoing Apple’s June price hike with prices starting from $1,099
Grab Apple’s 2026 MacBook Air with M5 chip for $1,099 right now, a $200 price drop that knocks it back to its early 2026 pricing.
Hardware
Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity
Kioxia’s LD4-series SSDs can store up to 122.88TB of data in a compact form-factor, but its performance remains a mystery.
Hardware
Arc Raiders publisher developing AI anti-cheat stack in escalating war with cheaters
These strict measures are designed to deter players from cheating. Those caught will get a permaban that span accounts and even hardware in the future.
Hardware
AMD attempted to crush the ‘Megahertz myth’ with its Performance Rating system on this day 25 years ago
Today, a quarter of a century ago, AMD launched its AMD Athlon XP processor family and its Performance Rating (PR) naming scheme.
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