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The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims' wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD social media post highlights the Wi-Fi jammer-supported burglaries and provides a helpful checklist of precautions residents can take. Criminals can easily find the hardware for Wi-Fi jamming online....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Lenovo’s Legion Tower 5i is a fantastic option for entry-level 1080p gaming, powered by a Core i5 CPU and GeForce RTX 4060. It also includes premium features, like a tempered glass case with customizable RGB lighting. Good 1080p performance for the money Quiet cooling and operation Solid build quality Lacks front USB Type-C port Cable management is a bit haphazard Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Despite good looks and easy setup, so-so performance and higher-than-average pricing make the Velop Micro 6 a hard sell. Attractive and low-impact design for satellite nodes Setup is easy, no app required Overall Wi-Fi performance is disappointing LAN ports are limited to 1 Gbps Satellite nodes lack LAN ports Far pricier than competitive systems Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

We’ve seen microcontrollers like theArduinoandRaspberry Piused for emulation before, but this project fromDr. Tom Tilleyhas taken the idea to a whole new level. His latest creation has brought to life a piece of hardware seen in the classic arcade game Puzzle Bobble, also known internationally as Bust-A-Move. This mechanism moves in real-time with the game as it’s played, bringing the experience of Bust-A-Move into the real world. If you aren’t familiar with Puzzle Bobble, aka Bust-A-Move, we’ll fill you in on the mechanics....

Mark Zuckerberg this weekpublished an updateon Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) and the hardware that powers it in particular. By the end of the year Meta will have AI hardware with the performance equivalent to 600,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Apparently, Meta, which is known to be one of the major purchasers of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, buys many kinds AI processors, including AMD’s Instinct MI300. A post shared by Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck)...

Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Christopher Harper has been a successful freelance tech writer specializing in PC hardware and gaming since 2015, and ghostwrote for various B2B clients in High School before that. Outside of work, Christopher is best known to friends and rivals as an active competitive player in various eSports (particularly fighting games and arena shooters) and a purveyor of music ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Killer Mike to the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack....

Microsoft’s mysterious Z1000 SSD has surfaced per a leak from@yuuki_ans on X, who uploaded photos of the drive and detailed its specifications. The Microsoft SSD uses components from various companies: NAND flash chips from Toshiba, DDR4 RAM cache from Micron, and a controller fromCNEX Labs. We can’t be sure what this SSD is or will be used for, but it will likely be a drive for data centers and servers, not a retail product....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Monoprice 44394 40-inch Crystal Pro gaming monitor delivers a huge screen for a low price. It has superb contrast and color accuracy with its only flaws being dark HDR and a weak overdrive. For the money, it’s a good choice for users needing extra screen area but don’t want two monitors. A lot of screen area for a low price Excellent contrast, and off-axis image quality...

MSI is making some interesting upgrades to its upcoming X870 and X870E motherboards.Cowcotlandreports that the motherboard manufacturer showed off new X870 and X870E motherboards at Gamescom 2024, featuring an 8-pin PCIe power connector installed at the bottom of the PCB. The additional power connector is reportedly designed to power next-generation graphics cards. Assuming MSI is taking full advantage of the capabilities of a single 8-pin PCIe connector, these new X870/X870E motherboards will have up to 75W of additional power routed to the primary, secondary, or both PCIe slots thanks to that additional 8-pin power plug....

With less than one month left toCES2025, leakedbenchmarkshave started to surface starring AMD’s flagship Strix Halo APUs. The Ryzen AI MAX+ Pro 395 - now that’s a mouthful - has emerged onGeekbenchpacking 16 CPU cores, 64GB of RAM, and a massive 40 CU (Compute Units) Radeon RX 8600S iGPU (Integrated GPU). Despite the apparent low score - set to improve with further optimizations - the real juicy details lie in the specifications....

NEC this weekannouncedthat it had been selected to develop a next-generation supercomputer for Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST). The machine will use Intel’s Xeon 6900P processors, AMD’s Instinct MI300A accelerators and will offer performance of around 40 PetaFLOPS. It will be mainly tasked with advancing nuclear fusion research. The system is set to be installed at QST’s Rokkasho Institute for Fusion Energy in Aomori, Japan, and will include 360 NEC LX 204Bin-3 units powered by 720 Intel Xeon 6900P processors equipped with MRDIMM DDR5 memory and 70 NEC LX 401Bax-3GA units with AMD Instinct MI300A GPUs, reaching a combined theoretical performance of 40....

We use a network bridge when joining two different networks to make them work as a single one. But if you haven’t configured the settings well, this feature might not work for you. When we use a virtual machine, itcreates a new network adapterfor itself. However, for some reason, you maylose internet accesson your VM if the network bridge setting isn’t done right. If you want to fix this issue, you’re at the right place....

Printers are a lifesaver but we need to admit that sometimes, it is a hassle to work with them. Printers always have something wrong with them and sometimes, they don’t even recognize the ink cartridge when we set a new one. New ink cartridge problems are something we all printer users have faced. It is mostly caused due to improper installation of the ink cartridge. The cause and solution can vary according to the printer but once you navigate the cause, you’ll be able to fix it instantly....