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		Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton (tomshardware.com)
		72 points by speckx 8 hours ago \| past \| 109 comments
		Analyst Calls for AMD Investigation over Restricted Chips in China (tomshardware.com)
		2 points by rndsignals 8 hours ago \| past \| discuss
		iPhone 18 Pro Max SSD drops lower than hard drive at 1.1 MBs during heavy writes (tomshardware.com)
		3 points by ajdude 23 hours ago \| past \| discuss
		Qwen Image 2.1 beats Google Nano Banana 2.0 with minuscule 7B parameter model (tomshardware.com)
		4 points by speckx 1 day ago \| past \| 1 comment
		China's ByteDance gained access to over 2k Nvidia B200 chips through Norway (tomshardware.com)
		10 points by sbulaev 1 day ago \| past \| discuss
		Meta's new transoceanic undersea cable boasts a petabit of bandwidth (tomshardware.com)
		1 point by MC995 1 day ago \| past \| discuss
		Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins (tomshardware.com)
		34 points by alok-g 1 day ago \| past \| 5 comments
		Raspberry Pi locks boards to factory RAM capacities in firmware (tomshardware.com)
		3 points by sbulaev 2 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time (tomshardware.com)
		4 points by rbanffy 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Local Model Citizen Outpaces DGX Spark and Threadripper (tomshardware.com)
		2 points by rbanffy 2 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes (tomshardware.com)
		43 points by ricobecks 3 days ago \| past \| 18 comments
		Anthropic, OpenAI et al. face antitrust suit for agreeing to slow AI development (tomshardware.com)
		32 points by MC995 3 days ago \| past \| 11 comments
		OpenAI projections point to a $278B cash burn through 2030 (tomshardware.com)
		2 points by MC995 3 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Hands-On with Googlebooks (tomshardware.com)
		1 point by Shuddown 3 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time (tomshardware.com)
		3 points by rbanffy 3 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets (tomshardware.com)
		29 points by sbulaev 4 days ago \| past \| 8 comments
		MS patents system to freeze games, inject ads – commercials earn playtime credit (tomshardware.com)
		7 points by josephcsible 4 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (tomshardware.com)
		190 points by jonbaer 5 days ago \| past \| 52 comments
		Enthusiast replaces ripped-off CPU pin in substrate – chip boots and hits 33% OC (tomshardware.com)
		2 points by sbulaev 5 days ago \| past \| discuss
		ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 108-year-old unsolved WWI German code for the first time (tomshardware.com)
		3 points by NordStreamYacht 5 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Hackers breach OpenAI using Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts (tomshardware.com)
		5 points by thunderbong 5 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Developer builds 3D code visualizer that takes 21GB RAM shows 2.5M LOC at 120fps (tomshardware.com)
		2 points by thunderbong 7 days ago \| past \| discuss
		AI memory shortage: Fairphone says RAM is now 60% of materials cost (tomshardware.com)
		13 points by sbulaev 8 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (tomshardware.com)
		285 points by rbanffy 8 days ago \| past \| 91 comments
		Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads (tomshardware.com)
		58 points by vanburen 8 days ago \| past \| 77 comments
		China's open-weight AI models are now just 4 months behind frontier US offerings (tomshardware.com)
		3 points by rbanffy 8 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Intel reportedly cans 12Xe option for Nova Lake-S desktop (tomshardware.com)
		1 point by rbanffy 9 days ago \| past \| discuss
		A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record – beats desktop i9 and Ryzen 9 (tomshardware.com)
		32 points by scrlk 9 days ago \| past \| 13 comments
		Nvidia Launches RTX 5500 Pro Blackwell Desktop Edition with 84GB GDDR7 RAM (tomshardware.com)
		6 points by bhouston 10 days ago \| past \| 4 comments
		Nvidia's RTX 5090 ($9,500) vanishes from online retail in the US (tomshardware.com)
		5 points by speckx 10 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
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