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Today β€” 16 April 2026Latest from Tom's Hardware
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Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam β€” feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts

Your Steam games are about to get some new glanceable information next to their price boxes, according to recent changes discovered in the client's backend. Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to the platform, letting you see if the game currently costs the lowest it has been in the last month.

Netgear secures conditional approval from the FCC following router ban β€” company can continue importing foreign-made routers through October 2027

Netgear secured a conditional approval from the FCC to continue releasing new models of several router lines, with the company saying in its SEC disclosure that it can launch new models indefinitely provided it can maintain its approval.

Our lifestyle tech colleagues at Tom's Guide have overhauled their site for smarter shopping β€” more video and access to experts make it 'the biggest relaunch in our history'

15 April 2026 at 15:00
Our tech colleagues over at Tom's Guide just relaunched their homepage, with destination-focused features like a dedicated live feed for news and expert reactions, AI-infused shopping and upgrading tools, and more short-form video.

Alienware's new OLED monitor disrupts the market at just $350, features a 27-inch 240 Hz panel β€” The 'AW2726DM' is limited to 200 nits, but comes with a 3-year warranty

Entry-level OLED monitors used to cost $500 last year, but you could find them for a bit less on sale. Now, Alienware has just launched the AW2726DM for $350. That's the MSRP, not a discounted price. For that money, you get a 27-inch gaming monitor featuring a 1440p 240 Hz QD-OLED panel with FreeSync Premium.

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Intel's promising upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup reportedly includes an iGPU-focused SKU with 12 Xe3P cores β€” new leak claims a midrange 16-core CPU with powerful integrated graphics is in the works

A new leak claims Intel is prepping a 16-core CPU featuring 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, likely targeting the Ryzen G-series APUs. AMD's latest desktop APUs top out at only 8 RDNA 3.5 CUs, while the Arc B390M in Panther Lake already beats the Radeon 890M in Strix Point. That means 12 Xe3P cores on an NVL-S chip would be a heaven-sent for gamers.

News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages β€” 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models

Many major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine's crawler from archiving their pages, despite using the tool for their reporting. Their primary concern is that AI tech companies are breaking fair use and training their models on publicly available data.

'CopprLink' destroys every eGPU standard in new test, achieves near-native-level performance with an RTX 5090 β€” setup requires $2,300 worth of additional hardware

An RTX 5090 plugged into this eGPU using the CopprLink standard was able to get essentially the same level of performance as the GPU directly plugged into the motherboard. The setup requires a $1,300 enclosure and a $1,000 adapter card, and it's only meant for enterprise markets, but it shows what the future of eGPUs could be for consumers.

Lenovo hikes Legion Go 2 handheld gaming PC to almost $3,000 for 2 TB model β€” Handheld now costs more than AMD's Strix Halo devices despite relatively weaker Z2 Extreme chip

Lenovo has raised the prices of its Legion Go 2 handhelds (with Z2 Extreme) across the board, with the worse offended being the 2 TB model, receiving a 93% hike. It went from $1,480 at launch to a staggering $2,850 in the span of just a few months, while the 1 TB model is now $2,000, up from $1,350 at launch.

Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K Review: 660 hours of battery life at 8 KHz

12 April 2026 at 16:00
The Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K is a full-size wireless mechanical gaming keyboard with an 8 KHz polling rate and an impressive 660 hours of battery life at that polling rate. However, its high-profile keycaps and slightly heavy tactile switches weren't our favorite.

$27 platypus PCIe adapter converts half-height GPUs into full-height while adding two M.2 slots for SSDs β€” enthusiast demos low-profile RTX 4060 with two SSDs thanks to PCIe bifurcation

A Redditor got his hands on this PCIe adapter that does the job of two different ones at the same time. It converts half-height GPUs into full height while adding M.2 slots for storage expansion. All this is possible thanks to PCIe bifurcation, splitting an x16 slot into x8 for the GPU, and two x4 lanes for the SSDs.

Valve engineer shocks Linux community with game-changing VRAM hack for 8GB GPUs β€” breakthrough solution turbocharges gaming by prioritizing VRAM for games while background tasks take a back seat

Natalie Vock, a dev on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has introduced new fixes that optimize VRAM usage for games in Linux. Previously, any background task could make the OS evict game data from VRAM and throw it into system memory, but now it'll be able to correctly prioritize the game running in foreground.

Rockstar Games confirms it was hacked by malicious group β€” 'ShinyHunters' takes credit, gives until April 14 to pay ransom or it will release confidential data

The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom.

Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today β€” its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots

11 April 2026 at 20:27
Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add β€˜irritating,’ productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001.

Save $680 instantly on this massive Corsair 96GB DDR5-6000 RAM kit β€” 57% discount slashes price tag to $499

If you've been looking to score a high-capacity kit of RAM but the AI boom has destroyed any chance of that happening, Newegg might have just the deal for you. The 96GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit usually costs over $1,100, but you can get it for less than half if you act quickly.

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