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Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft’s ‘world’s most powerful AI data center’ due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention cons

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Bruno Ferreira is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware. He has decades of experience with PC hardware and assorted sundries, alongside a career as a developer. He’s obsessed with detail and has a tendency to ramble o…

China-made CXMT memory now supports faster speeds on MSI’s AMD motherboards — new BIOS adds DDR5-8200 validation on dual-DIMM, DDR5-7200 on quad-DIMM models

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The test BIOS comes from MSI China — there’s no announcement on global channels for some reason, and it’s only available for select motherboards at the moment. MSI tested region-bound retail kits from Lexar and KingBank …

South Korea’s $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul’s total power demand

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KEPCO and the government plan six LNG plants inside the Yongin complex, starting at about 3 GW and scaling toward 10 GW, to bridge the supply gap until the transmission network is finished. Both Samsung and SK hynix hold…

DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent

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Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom’s Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason. “,”collapsible”:{“enabled”:true,”maxHeight…

Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

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The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…

Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and pub

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Andrew E. Freedman is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Tom’s Guid…