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1. Thursday, October 8, 2026

2. 11:00tech
   Former Groq engineers sue board over $20 billion Nvidia deal Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
3. 10:30tech
   Taiwan indicts 10 for smuggling US military-grade chips to China, parts routed to missile and radar programs using forged Taiwan defense institute orders Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
4. 09:30tech
   IT pro says his parents’ Keurig smart coffee maker sent 1TB of data over their Wi-Fi in 10 days Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

5. Wednesday, October 7, 2026

6. 13:00tech
   Qualcomm will license patents behind Huawei’s LogicFolding chip architecture, report says Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
7. 11:40tech
   AI agent fleet likely from Chinese firm Tencent pulled data from rival Alibaba’s maps, researchers say Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

8. Tuesday, October 6, 2026

9. 11:30tech
   Qualcomm will pay Huawei to license its patents for the first time in historic turnaround Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
10. 12:00tech
    Data center construction spending hits record $85 billion annual pace Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

11. Monday, October 5, 2026

12. 13:20tech
    Tencent scores 100,000 offshore AI chip deal with Oracle for $7 billion despite climbing prices Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
13. 09:40tech
    Anthropic reports Florida woman’s Claude ‘diary’ threat to shoot up sheriff’s office, felony charge follows Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

14. Sunday, October 4, 2026

15. 12:30tech
    Microsoft using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
16. 10:50tech
    Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

17. Saturday, October 3, 2026

18. 13:10tech
    AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
19. 12:30tech
    Malicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
20. 10:00tech
    ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft 'blind' and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

21. Friday, October 2, 2026

22. 10:30tech
    PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model for home PCs Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

23. Thursday, October 1, 2026

24. 12:00tech
    OpenAI says actors linked to China-based Moonshot AI spearheaded a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
25. 10:30tech
    Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

26. Wednesday, September 30, 2026

27. 18:00tech
    Geekbench 7 results suggest OpenAI's dots run on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
28. 13:20tech
    Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
29. 12:20tech
    The state of agentic AI in chip design tools in 2026 Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
30. 11:30tech
    Developer trains a small AI on a single RTX 3080 Ti gaming GPU to 'play' Pokémon Red Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
31. 09:30tech
    AMD acquires AI legend Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

32. Tuesday, September 29, 2026

33. 10:00tech
    Early Nvidia advisor says he's owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlement Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

34. Monday, September 28, 2026

35. 14:45tech
    Virginia Tech lab 3D prints a liquid metal composite to guide heat, boost thermal conductivity 40x Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
36. 16:35tech
    Synopsys debuts Autopilot platform for developing chips autonomously using AI Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

37. Sunday, September 27, 2026

38. 11:30tech
    Developer says AI decision model Jev beat Pokémon Red in under a week Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

39. Saturday, September 26, 2026

40. 12:30tech
    Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 streams ray-tracing geometry into VRAM on demand Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
41. 13:00tech
    Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P 2TB SSD review: A PS5 SSD you recognize at a price you don’t Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

42. Thursday, September 24, 2026

43. 20:34tech
    OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare stats portal with 84-day notification delay Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
44. 10:30tech
    British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for 'aiding and abetting' school shooter Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

45. Wednesday, September 23, 2026

46. 12:00tech
    Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claims it's 'the most powerful AI chip in China' Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

47. Tuesday, September 22, 2026

48. 10:30tech
    New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region — trades 6% to 20% of its QLC capacity for more than 7x faster random writes Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

49. Monday, September 21, 2026

50. 10:30tech
    AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time; experiments included stabbing a baby doll, mixing chemicals — OpenAI and Anthropic models try mixing bleach and stabbing dolls without jailbreaks Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

51. Sunday, September 20, 2026

52. 11:20tech
    Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no human input and zero external comms Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

53. Saturday, September 19, 2026

54. 10:30tech
    Intel suspends bug bounty program that paid up to $100,000 per flaw — new Intigriti disclosure program offers no rewards Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

55. Friday, September 18, 2026

56. 12:00tech
    Modder gets Nvidia's DLSS 5 working in a web browser using WebGPU — 147MB browser port runs on non-Nvidia GPUs and macOS but takes two seconds per render Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

57. Wednesday, September 16, 2026

58. 14:36tech
    Piecemakers bets edge AI devices will diverge from reliance on HBM — custom-designed memory fuses DRAM stack directly to the processor using hybrid bonding Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
59. 10:15tech
    Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story
60. 10:15tech
    China's open-weight AI models are now just 4 months behind frontier US offerings, Mozilla report claims — models still lag in some benchmarks but are drastically cheaper to use Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing story

61. Tuesday, September 15, 2026

62. 09:24tech
    Perplexity’s local AI agent comes to Windows, but only for RTX GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM — Portable Computer brings AI for multistep tasks to compatible PCs Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

63. Saturday, September 12, 2026

64. 11:05tech
    Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 2TB SSD Review — Speed built to last Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing

65. Wednesday, September 9, 2026

66. 12:34tech
    Goodram PX700 2TB SSD Review: High-end punch on a budget core Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing