HARDWARE·May 24, 2026007: First Light drops last-minute Denuvo DRM bombshell, leaving pre-order customers and fans furious — Bond title risks FPS drops and strict online check-ins, pirates eagerly await repack as day-one cracks become the normTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires, sparking corporate pullback at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AITom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Micron's Virginia fab begins producing America's most advanced DRAM memory — fab expansion to quadruple output, easing DDR4 shortage for automotive and defense sectorsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Huawei develops 122TB SSD with new packaging tech to sidestep US sanctions on 3D NAND chips — Chinese firm develops proprietary tech to cram more NAND dies in a smaller footprintTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026768GB of cheap Intel Optane DIMM memory sticks used to run 1-trillion-parameter LLM on a system with a single GPU — local Kimi K2.5 install achieved roughly 4 tokens per secondTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Wi‑Fi-controlled hacking USB cable stealthily packs in a microcontroller, microSD storage, and more — cable executes remote payload execution, keystroke injection, and more, but is 'built for makers, developers, enthusiasts, and cybersecurity learners'Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Steam Controller puck charger nearly catches fire after contact with Pixel Watch 3 — sparks fly after the metal wristband magnetizes to the puck's pogo pinsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Retro enthusiast injects Snake game into vintage S3 graphics card VBIOS — enjoy some serpentum fun while your old PC bootsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Class-action price-fixing lawsuit targets hard drive component makers as costs skyrocket — 13-year scheme allegedly drove up prices for major HDD brandsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote to crushing shortagesTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 23, 2026Meta data center allegedly contaminates drinking water in a Georgia town, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearingTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 22, 2026After a year, Firefox finally stops crashing on Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs — Mozilla releases new version patch critical flaw on Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUsTom's Hardware
