HARDWARE·May 17, 2026LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom airTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years laterTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load timesTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm after its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate whether the chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivalsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Josef Prusa says Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an unauditable network 'black box' — warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risksTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 coresTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agentsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independenceTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to other countriesTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200msTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 17, 2026The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus — benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applicationsTom's Hardware
