US Army unit deploys drone assembled completely in-house, uses 3D-printed 'Dragoon Bombs' with ball bearing shrapnel
U.S. Army soldiers are training to assemble drones and 3D-print bomb casings for field use.
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AI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style’ in a 75-ton vat of molten steel
AI Robotics company Figure found a creative way of decommissioning its old F.02 fleet without having to allocate resources for difficult and time-consuming disassembly.
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ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours
An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn’t been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.
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Iranian national extradited to US over alleged $3.4 billion state-backed hacking campaign in rare legal win for law enforcement
An Iranian-Turkish man has been extradited from Montenegro to the U.S. over his alleged role in a hacking campaign that targeted hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies and stole more than 31 TB of academic data.
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Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature
Microsoft is bringing nature-inspired landscaping to more than 20 data center sites as critics question its motives.
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'AI Torture Chamber' triggers massive backlash for putting chatbots in simulated pain
AI "torture chamber" draws vast online criticism, and a corresponding amount of ridicule — tech newbies and AI evangelists go nuts anthropomorphizing an LLM
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Google Japan shows off wild conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to your fingers
This keyboard is designed so that you don't have to move your hands or arms to press its keys. It's not going to be put on sale, but you can build one yourself.
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Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces
Carlos Antelo's open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.
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Portable Bluetooth CD player has a glow-in-the-dark transparent green finish, modern features
Sincere Inc. has released its Pixel Tunes portable Bluetooth CD player in an alluring new ‘After Hours’ finish.
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Free browser-based AI-generated Taipei GTA clone hits 1.2 million concurrent players in three days
Developers AICodeWith have vibe-coded and published a free browser-based game dubbed Taipei GTA. It reportedly cost $10,000 in tokens to get to this state.
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7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV Pro gets shocking 50% price hike driven by AI memory shortage
The Shield TV Pro remains one of Nvidia’s longest-running consumer devices, but its $299.99 price tag now makes the streaming box considerably more expensive than when it launched.
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Elon Musk confirms discussions with TSMC about Terafab chipmaking collaboration
Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project.
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Find tech deals in Newegg's Fantastech Sale ahead of Amazon's Big Deals Day — early shoppers get automatic refunds if hardware prices drop lower
Ahead of Newegg's Fantastech Sale II launch on October 5th, you can grab some early deals and have price protection security if the product price drops lower in the sale proper.
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Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines, and there's no way to check for violations before purchase
The CPU's previous owner apparently used it for cheating on Valorant, with its HWID getting flagged by Vanguard. When the Redditor bought and installed it on their PC, their Valorant account received a ban, too.
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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we open the floodgates with a free-to-access chip design week, including expert interviews, a sit-down with OpenAI on its custom ASIC, and much more.
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Steam hits record $1.7 billion in September 2026 despite soaring PC hardware costs
Steam's latest revenues highlight continued strength in PC gaming, with players continuing to spend heavily even as the cost of building and upgrading gaming PCs rises.
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AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x
Daniel Newman’s number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.
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Scare up big savings in Bambu Lab's Halloween sale right now, with up to 30% off
Don't let huge 3D printer prices scare you, because Bambu Lab's Halloween sale has knocked up to 30% off a new printer, with big bulk discounts on filament rolls, too.
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