Tom's Hardware

Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P 2TB SSD review: A PS5 SSD you recognize at a price you don’t The Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P is a WD Black SN850P by another name. It’s a great PS5 SSD with good performance in a mature package, but with a stiff premium.

Nvidia patents AI chatbot to streamline PC game optimization An Nvidia patent suggests the company could push developers to use a new chatbot as a way to get guidance on how to optimize their new games before release.

Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 streams ray-tracing geometry into VRAM on demand Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 SDK arrives alongside RTX Kit 2026.3 with on-demand ray-tracing geometry streaming.

Novel attack slashes computing power needed to crack textbook RSA cryptography Not very practical yet, but could serve as the basis for future improvements.

PNY allegedly refuses to cover melted RTX 5090 powered by native power supply cable A user's GeForce RTX 5090 died when his 12V-2x6 connector melted, and then PNY denied his warranty claim based on technicalities that aren't even present in the warranty policy.

Enthusiast cooled iPhone 18 Pro with cold can of La Croix sparkling water; benchmarks show 25% higher sustained performance Matt Birchler put a cold drink can on the back of an iPhone 18 Pro to see how much performance uplift it would get in a prolonged benchmarking session. The results showed up to 25% higher sustained performance from the cold drink, showing the effectiveness of 'liquid cooling…

Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites Proposed federal bill would force ISPs, DNS services, and VPN providers to block foreign piracy sites — yet the definition of "from the United states" gets murky

ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 1941 Enigma-coded message in two days A German Army Enigma transmission from 85 years ago, known as the MVUEH message, has been cracked by GTP-Astra in just two days.

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation Elon Musk says that the Colossus 2 will receive 220,000 GB300 GPUs by next week, with another two tranches of the same amount expected to arrive later this year. This will put the site at over a million AI GPUs, finally hitting the goal the billionaire set two years ago.

Tower Semiconductor to invest $4 billion in Japanese ops to set up massive optical connectivity hub Tower's new optical connectivity hub in Japan will increase its output by 40 times in 2029 compared to 2025 level.