SK hynix completes development of next-gen HBM4 — 2,048-bit interface and 10 GT/s speeds promised for next-gen AI accelerators

Borderlands 4 on PC crushing even the most powerful rigs — RTX 5090 struggles in some scenarios, but day one patch solves plenty of issues

Borderlands 4 has arrived on PC to a chorus of criticism over performance and stuttering. Just one day after launch, Steam user reviews show as ‘Mixed’ as early reports from players described low frame rates and frequent crashes, even on high-end hardware.
“Terrible optimization. Another Unreal Engine 5 casualty. Not worth buying in its current state unless you have a NASA PC,” wrote Steam user 'Rej'. Meanwhile, on X, a player claimed that their RTX
Seagate's humongous 28TB HDD is a massive deal for a limited time at just $11.75 per TB — Desktop Expansion HDD on sale at Best Buy for $329

One of the largest external HDDs on the market, at a massive 28TB in size, this drive has plenty of space for storing your pictures and videos, as well as an ample amount of room for other data types. Seagate's Expansion Desktop drive is a traditional 3.5" hard disk drive contained in an external enclosure that requires its own power source, and connects to your PC via USB for simple setup and file transfer.
Best Buy is offering a limited-
Amazon says bug caused select Echo Show devices to use tons of data — widgets caching large images caused gigabytes of internet usage

Amazon has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that a bug in select Echo Show devices has been causing the device to use up data, and that the company has since resolved the issue. “…there was a bug impacting widgets caching large images on select Echo Show devices,” Amazon spokesperson Lauren Raemhild said in an email. However, she also mentioned that it has since been fixed, so users no longer have to worry about their Amazon smart home gear using up a ton
Nintendo Switch 2 mod adds over an hour of playtime with bigger 8,000mAh battery — unofficial replacement battery packs sell for as little as $40

With only a few months since its launch, the modding community has already started tinkering with the Switch 2 and has come up with a practical solution to battery life issues. A YouTube video posted by user naga shows the entire process of replacing the stock 5,220mAh battery with a higher-capacity 8,000mAh unit to extend the console’s battery life. Interestingly, such replacement batteries are being sold for under $40 on Goofish ,
Netgear Orbi 370 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 hardware finally makes Orbi affordable
Tom's Hardware Verdict
Netgear’s Orbi 370 delivers good 5 GHz performance, and its price is more attractive, but the competition still undercuts it.
Pros
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Class-leading 5 GHz performance
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Affordable pricing
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Can be set up and maintained with a desktop browser or smartphone app
Cons
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Poor 2.4 GHz performance
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Only one LAN port per satellite

The new frontier: Meet the power players cashing in on the AI gold rush

If there is one unifying theme across the entire AI industry over the past year, it has been staggering, unprecedented investment . Hundreds of billions of dollars have poured into companies the world over, promising enormous innovation and profit-making opportunities in equal measure. Governments and private enterprises have scrambled to keep pace with its rapid evolution, and even if the biggest companies haven't managed to make a profit just yet, that's not stopping the investor dollars from flowing in
Intel Xeon chief architect leaves just 8 months after appointment — Ronak Singhal latest departure in ongoing shakeup

Ronak Singhal, Intel senior fellow and chief architect of Xeon products, will leave the company by the end of the month, the company has confirmed to Tom's Hardware . Singhal appears to be the second chief architect of Xeon products to depart the company in less than a year. His departure emphasizes the deep restructuring under chief executive Lip-Bu Tan, though it remains to be seen who will be responsible for defining the future of Xeon CPUs.
Singhal's departure from
Nvidia and Kioxia target 100 million IOPS SSD in 2027 — AI server drives aim to deliver 33 times more performance

Kioxia is working with Nvidia to build a solid-state drive that would deliver 100 million random IOPS already in 2027, the company said at a news conference earlier this month, Nikkei reports . Nvidia reportedly plans to use a couple of such SSDs — totalling a whopping 200 million IOPS — attached directly to its GPUs to boost AI performance.
"We will proceed with development in accordance with the proposals and requests from Nvidia," said Koichi
MSI Afterburner developer adding 'triple channel voltage' support for future MSI RTX 50 graphics cards

MSI Afterburner's sole developer, Alexey Nicolaychuk, is working on a new update for the app that will expand its voltage support for overclocking enthusiasts. In an update on the Guru3D forums , Nicolaychuk revealed that he's working on "triple channel voltage" aimed at future MSI graphics cards that will expand voltage control beyond just core voltage manipulation.
Triple-channel voltage control will allow users to control two additional voltage parameters on future MSI graphics cards: memory voltage