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- Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans — Nashville also passed near-unanimous moratorium on first readingby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 15, 2026 at 6:06 pm
Two jurisdictions in Tennessee just passed a data center moratorium as three more a set to vote on bills that delay these projects. These temporary bans have gained widespread support, especially in rural regions where developers are increasingly looking to for building their massive projects.
- Marvell details vision of optically-interconnected data centers spanning across thousands of kilometers — new interconnects sampling later this year would allow CSPs to pool resources based on workloadby ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on June 15, 2026 at 4:49 pm
Marvell shares its vision for optically connected data centers, connecting devices across hundreds of kilometers, and the company already has hardware to build them.
- China’s supreme court bans Infineon from selling GaN power chips in China — market-leader Innoscience secures major victory in multi-region patent waron June 15, 2026 at 2:27 pm
China’s Supreme People’s Court on Friday upheld an injunction prohibiting Infineon from selling disputed GaN products in mainland China.
- Bambu Lab’s big anniversary sale is live with up to 52% off — score huge discounts on their most popular 3D printers and accessorieson June 15, 2026 at 2:14 pm
Save on some of the best 3D printers in Bambu Lab’s Anniversary sale
- Cancelled Xbox 360 version of GoldenEye 007 gets recompiled for PC — ‘No emulator, the game runs as a real native executable,’ insists devon June 15, 2026 at 1:43 pm
GoldenEye Recomp v1.0 has been released, providing ‘a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 built by statically recompiling the original game into C++’ with no emulation involved.
- Cooler Master MasterHUB review: A modular stream deck with potentialon June 15, 2026 at 1:10 pm
Cooler Master’s MasterHUB is a modular customizable macropad that’s perhaps a little too ambitious. Its modularity is nicely implemented, but it’s limited by its software and lack of plugins.
- Score 32GB of DDR5 RAM from only $240 in these Newegg hardware bundles for Intel and AMD gaming PC builds — huge savings on premium Gigabyte motherboards coupled with popular Corsair Vengeance memoryon June 15, 2026 at 12:19 pm
These Newegg bundles for Intel and AMD gaming PC builds feature 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM from only $240, featuring Gigabyte motherboards.
- Asus ProArt PA27USD 27-inch OLED review: Precision color with high-speed gaming prowesson June 15, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Asus combines professional and gaming cred in the ProArt PA27USD. It’s a 27-inch QD-OLED with 4K resolution, professional image modes, auto-calibration, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision and wide gamut color.
- Google Chromebook marks its 15th anniversary — slow feature rollouts and a canceled Steam beta leave it largely stuck in classroomson June 15, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Today marks 15 years since the first Chromebooks hit the market.
- Samsung’s 49-inch ultrawide Odyssey G9 gaming monitor dips to the lowest-ever price of $664 at Amazon — get 240Hz refresh rate and dense 109 PPI for 34% offon June 15, 2026 at 11:18 am
Save 34% on Samsung’s Odyssey G9 gaming monitor and pick up this massive 49-inch display for just $664.99. Its lowest-ever price.
- FBI dismantles Chinese phishing service that coached buyers to generate scam sites using AI —$88 cybercrime product linked to $1.9 billion in losses, 3.87 million stolen cardson June 15, 2026 at 11:10 am
The FBI, Google, and Lumen Technologies say they’ve dismantled a China-based phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise.
- 42% slashed off Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD, 2TB now $369 — $270 savings brings one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs to its lowest price in monthson June 15, 2026 at 10:49 am
Samsung’s 990 Pro 2TB is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs around, delivering excellent performance and efficiency and backed by a 5-year warranty – now priced at $369.99, it’s not the cheapest around, but is a well-rounded storage upgrade for any build.
- 2021 Honda Civic infotainment system can be jailbroken via USB — flaw uses public Android test keys to install unauthorized apps, enables for ‘EvilValet’ attacksby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 15, 2026 at 10:00 am
A software architect determined that they could practically install anything they want on the infotainment system of their 2021 Honda Civic through the front USB port. While the head unit required a signed AOSP file to update itself, the AOSP test key is publicly known, meaning anyone with the knowledge could potentially build their own update file and load it with malware.
- Intel’s upcoming ‘Raptor Lake Next’ will reportedly top out at 20 cores and retain Core 200 branding — Lineup may include a special 10-core SKU with 24MB of L3 cacheby editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on June 14, 2026 at 2:57 pm
Intel’s Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.
- Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens — company also boasts of its improvements in water efficiencyby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 14, 2026 at 2:25 pm
Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.
- Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 ‘supercomputer’ in 1999, ‘for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon’ — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launchedon June 14, 2026 at 2:00 pm
In the context of the recent tech export bans, we look back at the Apple PowerMac G4 export ban from 1999 and Steve Jobs making marketing gold from the situation.
- Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb scareon June 14, 2026 at 2:00 pm
The Computer History Museum recalls one of its biggest ever retro treasure troves. This ‘astonishing’ haul was rescued from an abandoned warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, Germany.
- Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore serversby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 14, 2026 at 1:34 pm
A team of researchers from UC San Diego found that ‘old’ smartphones from 2023 could be combined to build a server capable of running apps locally, instead of relying on cloud servers located on a distant site.
- Snapmaker launches $150,000 Innovation Fund for open source 3D printing — cash rewards target developers backing the U1 toolchanger across Klipper, OrcaSlicer, and Moonraker ecosystemsby stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on June 14, 2026 at 1:30 pm
Snapmaker celebrates 10 years in business by sponsoring open-source developers and you.
- Grab this MSI Codex Z2 16-thread gaming Ryzen PC with a 2TB SSD at a $400 discount — system packs a Ryzen 8700F, 16GB DDR5, and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB for $1,499by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on June 14, 2026 at 1:28 pm
MSI’s prebuilt gaming desktop pairs a Zen 4 processor with Nvidia’s latest RTX 5060 Ti graphics card and comes housed in an airflow-focused chassis with ARGB lighting.
- New 3D printer tech uses elliptical laser beams to stir molten metal and create ‘alloys-on-demand’ — existing machinery can implement technique in software meaning for more convenient, stronger alloy printingon June 14, 2026 at 1:02 pm
NIST has demonstrated a metal 3D printing method that stirs molten metal during the print by sending the laser along looping elliptical paths instead of straight lines.
- Microsoft is reportedly testing Copilot+ AI features with discrete GPUs instead of NPUs — a feature available on Windows App SDK with a Windows Insider Experimental Channel build and Developer Mode turned onby editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on June 14, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Microsoft is experimenting with Windows AI features on non-Copilot devices, finally allowing AI features to run on discrete GPUs. This move expands its user base and gives more users access to Windows 11 local AI capabilities.
- OpenAI hit with sweeping probe from massive coalition of 42 US state attorneys general just days after reported IPO filing — subpoena targets ChatGPT maker’s ads, data practices, handling of minors, model sycophancy, and safety policieson June 14, 2026 at 12:30 pm
State attorneys general have opened a broad investigation into OpenAI, subpoenaing documents on ads, user retention, data handling, minors, health data, model behavior, and safety policies.
- AMD taunts Apple’s MacBook Neo for failing to run 75% of top PC games — Only 5 out of the 20 top PC games work on the Neo, while all run on AMD’s budget offeringsby editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on June 14, 2026 at 12:00 pm
AMD is reminding folks not to buy a MacBook, even if it’s as good of a deal as the Neo, if you primarily want to game on it. Instead, AMD’s own budget laptops can run all the modern titles you want, with a small caveat.
- US government warned Anthropic that Fable 5 had been jailbroken, but firm ‘refused’ to fix before US implemented export controls — Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak ‘isn’t serious,’ Chinese group had reportedly accessed modelon June 14, 2026 at 11:46 am
David Sacks said the US government warned Anthropic that Claude Fable 5 had been jailbroken and that CEO Dario Amodei refused to fix the flaw.
























