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- Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic’s chief over his claims of AI taking half of jobs and being unsafe — ‘Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe’by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 14, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that AI will wipe out nearly 50% of white-collar jobs.
- Nintendo Switch 2 screen survives being smashed with pliers 50 times — destructive testing finds the Switch 2 to be exceptionally toughby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 14, 2025 at 4:49 pm
Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything tore apart the Nintendo Switch 2 to show us its internals and then stress-tested the screen with pliers to see how durable it is.
- Patent reveals Huawei’s quad-chiplet rival for Nvidia’s Rubin AI GPUs could use packaging tech that rivals TSMC — Ascend 910D rumors have seemingly solid foundationby ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on June 14, 2025 at 4:37 pm
Huawei has reportedly developed a chip packaging process technology for its Ascend 910D processor that is comparable to TSMC’s leading-edge CoWoS technology.
- Get the gaming champion AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for below MSRP with a free 1TB SSD — devastating gaming performance now comes with bundled PCIe 4.0 storageon June 14, 2025 at 4:32 pm
You can pick up the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU for one of its best prices to date and receive a free 1TB SSD with it.
- AMD quietly launches a budget gaming beast — AM4 is alive and kicking with the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, but it has limited availabilityby editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on June 14, 2025 at 4:26 pm
AMD has introduced the Ryzen 5 5500X3D for Latin American customers. The new chip is AMD’s lowest-end Ryzen 5000X3D part, featuring six Zen 3 cores, 96MB of L3 cache, and a boost clock of 4 GHz.
- Intel’s new ‘no frills, just thrills’ budget gaming CPU leaked — Intel Core 5 120F finally brings Bartlett Lake to gaming rigsby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 14, 2025 at 3:29 pm
The Intel Core 5 120F is a budget-friendly gaming CPU that the company is seemingly getting ready to launch.
- ASML’s Impasto Project creates 3D digital twins of Vincent van Gogh’s art with 100 gigabytes of data per scan — nanometer-capable chipmaking tech used to create ‘Google Maps for paintings’on June 14, 2025 at 2:19 pm
ASML and the Van Gogh museum have collaborated on the design of a 3D scanner to capture and create digital twins of the masterpieces of the Netherlands’ most famous artist.
- PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won’t arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some timeby ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on June 14, 2025 at 2:11 pm
Client PC PCIe 6.0 x4 SSDs offering up to 32 GB/s bandwidth are not arriving until around 2030 due to high implementation costs, according to Silicon Motion CEO.
- Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listingsby stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on June 14, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Changes to Etsy’s creativity standards may ban selling items you didn’t design yourself.
- How to manage Linux network connections via nmcli and the terminalon June 14, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Linux has a great network management GUI but sometimes we need to get our hands dirty in the terminal. In this how to we look at how to manage connections on a typical Ubuntu / Debian Linux machine.
- Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3 Review: Great sound, terrible softwareon June 14, 2025 at 12:02 pm
Turtle Beach’s Stealth 700 Gen 3 flagship headset looks and sounds better than ever, but the software is still a mess.
- SMI CEO claims Nvidia wants SSDs with 100 million IOPS — up to 33X performance uplift could eliminate AI GPU bottlenecksby ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on June 13, 2025 at 8:58 pm
The chief executive of Silicon Motion said in an interview that Nvidia is looking forward to ridiculously fast storage devices to eliminate performance bottlenecks for its AI GPUs.
- ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they’re Neoon June 13, 2025 at 5:44 pm
ChatGPT’s affability and encouraging tone leads people into dangerous, life-threatening delusions, finds a recent NYT article. Many examples of responses encouraging psychosis-like symptoms have been found by a variety of researchers, including some leading people to commit suicide to meet imaginary AI-created phantoms.
- Intel adds more Arc GPUs to end of life — A750 Limited Edition rides into the sunset 3 years after launchon June 13, 2025 at 5:22 pm
Intel has put the Arc A750, A770M, A730M, A570M, A530M, and A370M on the EOL list.
- The U.S. Army is 3D-printing drones and repairing them — will soon have the capability to make ‘the vast majority’ in-houseon June 13, 2025 at 5:01 pm
Lieutenant General Chris Mohan delves into the US Army’s 3D Printed drone strategy on the Washington Times’ Threat Status podcast.
- Crucial X10 Portable SSD (4TB) review: 20 Gbps, up to 8TBon June 13, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Crucial’s latest X10 portable SSD is faster and roomier than its predecessors, but USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 feels dated now that USB4 is readily available.
- Intel to lay off fab workers in mid-July — company aims to refocus on more engineering talentby ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on June 13, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Intel will begin layoffs at its Intel Foundry division in mid-July as part of a new restructuring effort to cut costs while focusing on keeping engineering talent.
- Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented serversby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 13, 2025 at 4:04 pm
A Chinese AI company circumvented the U.S. ban on importing advanced AI chips by exporting its data instead.
- Samsung’s massive 57-inch Dual 4K gaming monitor drops to a low $1,550by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on June 13, 2025 at 3:41 pm
If you’re in the market for a massive ultrawide gaming monitor, the 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 hits a new low and delivers 7,680 x 2160 gaming goodness
- RTX 5050 could use the same 20 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM as the RX 9070 XT and RTX 4070 — Nvidia’s budget card to leverage fastest GDDR6 possibleby editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on June 13, 2025 at 3:39 pm
A new leak suggests Nvidia will be using the fastest mass-produced version of GDDR6 for the RTX 5050, capable of running at 20 Gbps. These modules are the same ones powering the RX 9070 series and the RTX 4070 GDDR6.
- Milestone one billionth Github Repo is just the word ‘sh*t’on June 13, 2025 at 3:38 pm
GitHub has hit an illustrious milestone with the publication of its one billionth repository this week.
- The end of an era — DDR4 production to essentially end this year, Micron the final domino to fallby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 13, 2025 at 3:14 pm
Micron is ending DDR4 production in two to three quarters, save for some long-term contracts in automotive, industrial, and networking applications.
- Expert pours cold water on Apple’s downbeat AI outlook — says lack of high-powered hardware could be to blameby ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on June 13, 2025 at 3:08 pm
Contemporary AI models are not silly, Apple just does not have proper hardware to test their limitations, says professor Seokjun Kwon of Sungkyunkwan University.
- Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steamby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 13, 2025 at 11:23 am
Another Rosetta 2 holdout gone
- University researchers tout using smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems — SmartAttack paper proposes using wearable as a covert ultrasonic signal receiverby stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on June 13, 2025 at 11:10 am
A new air-gap attack dubbed ‘SmartAttack’ theorizes using a smartwatch to capture covert signals and steal information.