Tom’s Hardware Verdict Be Quiet’s Light Base 600 LX looks good, and can be customized with three different layouts, but its thermal performance is underwhelming. Three different layout options Supports back-connector motherboards Moderate thermal performance Dust filters aren’t easily removable Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test....

Canon made quite a splash last year when it introducedits first nanoimprint lithography (NIL) machine, which can produce chips without using traditional DUV or EUV systems. But chipmakers unfamiliar with the technique were skeptical, both of this tool and the NIL method in general. Is that changing? This week the Japanese companydeliveredits FPA -1200NZ2C nanoimprint lithography system to the Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) for study, according toNikkei. While this might not seem like big news, it could be a major breakthrough for Canon and nanoimprint lithography....

German archival glass storage specialistCerabyte announced on July 15that it is bringing its technology to the U.S. The firm has already opened offices in Santa Clara, Calif., and Boulder, Colorado to prepare to commercialize its ceramic glass tablet storage technology. Cerabyte, founded in 2022 by Christian Pflaum, Martin Kunze, and Alexander Pflaum, hopes to revolutionize data storage by offering a system that keeps data safe from any loss without the need for a constant supply of electricity....

Prominent Chinese hacker group StormBamboo (alternately known as StormCloud or Evasive Panda) successfully compromised an ISP and several MacOS and Windows devices on those networks, reports cybersecurity organizationVolexity. Specifically, insecure protocols like HTTP were hijacked to alter DNS query responses and supplement intended automatic software updates with MACMA (MacOS-targeted malware) and MGBot/POCOSTICK (Windows-targeted malware), as well as subsequent maliciousGoogleChrome extension installation. This is the gist of the attack and how it happened, but what are the greater takeaways from this story?...

DIY.Zol.com.cnhas reviewed a rather mysterious solid-state drive from Zhitai with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface based on a controller with no markings and on YMTC’s 5th Generation 3D NAND with theXtacking 4.0architecture. The SSD supports read speeds of up to 14.5 GB/s, enabling it to compete againstthe best SSDs. While the controller is not marked, we have confirmed thisis Silicon Motion’s SM2508. Zhitai’s TiPro9000 2TB SSD carries a controller without markings, a 2GB LPDDR4X DRAM chip, and two 3D NAND packages....

Researchers from China’s Xiamen University working with the 92150 unit of the People’s Liberation Army used Huawei’s “polar code” data encoding and an underwater microphone (hydrophone) to confirm a new world record underwater wireless transmission range of 30 kilometers, or 18.6 miles, reports theSouth China Morning Post. As the source points out, this eclipses the JANUS protocol used by NATO, which has a maximum range of 28 kilometers, or 17.4 miles....

Colorful is expanding its Blackwell product stack with a new variant of theRTX 5080iGame Vulcan that’s coated in white and features a quad-fan design, according toVideoCardz. That makes it one of the only RTX 5080 models (along with Asus' Astral) featuring a four-fan cooling solution — which is, arguably, overkill. The GPU is priced at $1,790 (12,999 RMB), which is roughly 80% more than Nvidia’s base MSRP (but that figure is pretty much meaningless these days)....

A console modder and retro gaming enthusiast has realized his dream of becoming the owner of what he claims to be the holy grail of CRT TVs. Shank Mods managed to save an extremely rare 43-inchSonyTrinitron KX-45ED1 from an untimely ending, as it was being kept on the second floor of an Osaka noodle shop due for demolition before getting it shipped to the U.S. The Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, is thought to be the largest CRT TV ever sold to consumers, delivering a 43-inch visible diagonal on its 45-inch tube....

A mysterious Core Ultra K series engineering sample has made an appearance on CPU-Z.Алексей on X(Twitter) a screenshot of the mysterious part, with many of the critical system specifications blanked out to hide its true identity. Among the interesting findings is that the chip is listed with a 7nm node, denoting it uses the Intel 4 process, and lacks support for AVX-512. The specs reveal that this particular engineering sample is made on the B0 revision of silicon and uses Intel’s next-generationLGA 1851socket....

Creality has long been a leader in the 3D printer space and this week, atCES2024, the company unveiled its new flagship device: the Creality K1C, along with a new mainstream printer in the Ender 3 V3. The successor to the popularCreality K1, the K1C is also an enclosed, Core XY FDM printer capable of hitting speeds of up to 600 mm/s. Designed to compete with thebest 3D printers, the K1C ups the ante with an all-metal hot end, an improved motor system, and a new build plate....

Earlier today, YouTuber Michael Klements uploaded a detailed build log showcasing his custom, water-cooledRaspberry Pi 5case, including an open loop and acrylic side panel, at a footprint competitive with the best retail Pi 5 cases. This was accomplished using lots of retail hardware, including an existing (overkill) Pi 5 open loop cooler and many custom bits and pieces, including case and reservoir shell made with3D printingandlaser cutting. Of the originalWater Cooling Kitfor Raspberry Pi 5 design we reviewed, the most influential, unaltered piece is the original copper heatsink base....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The CSTM80 sounds great and is the easiest keyboard to customize — you’re able to swap out the top plate in seconds. Easy to customize Comfortable typing experience Can be used for gaming No rotary dial Polycarbonate bottom case ABS keycaps Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test....

Fresh offfiring up the Memphis Supercluster, claimed to be “the most powerful AI cluster in the world,” Elon Musk has now shared pictures of a supercomputer cluster that uses his own homegrown Dojo AI accelerators. He also announced on the Tesla earnings call that he would double down on Dojo development and deployment due to the high pricing of Nvidia’s GPUs. Aside from the opening of the xAI facility in Tennessee, which aims to have 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric, Musk said that he will have Dojo D1 up and running by the end of the year....