The Hot Take: Digging it so far!
Firefox 157 is here, but this time, Mozilla is making an unusual amount of noise about this release and its new look. This release has a new theme called âNova,â which in the release notes Mozilla calls âFirefoxâs biggest visual refresh in years.â The new theme is the flagship here, and aside from that, the new features in this version are fairly modest. Theyâre all welcome enough, though. Video calls which use WebRTC â Web Real Time Compression â now use hardware compression, and a bug which made video appear upside-down has been fixed, alongâŚ
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The Hot Take: ARM/RISC-V/x86 hybrids coming?
When Nuvacore, a new CPU startup founded by legendary CPU and system architects Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan, emerged from stealth earlier this year, it promised to "rewrite the rules of silicon," but did not say how it planned to do so. On Thursday, the company finally broke its silence and revealed that it is taking an unusual development approach that allows it to design a significant portion of its CPU core IP before committing to a particular instruction set architecture (ISA). Traditionally, CPU developers startâŚ
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The Hot Take: Back from the dead, Spectre.
It's been a while since any new Spectre vulnerabilities have come to light but that's changing today. The embargo has now lifted on BTR, Branch Target Reuse as a new Spectre-V2 attack affecting just-in-time (JIT) compilers...
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The Hot Take: GOOD.
A user-reported G. Skill warranty case has highlighted the extreme change in DDR5 pricing while also demonstrating the practical value of a lifetime memory warranty.
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The Hot Take: Snapdragon SoC's going out of support sooner than x86 chips or that just me thinking this?
The Surface lineup belonging to Microsoft largely comprises machines shipping with Snapdragon chipsets or Intel processors, with the latest addition being NVIDIAâs RTX Spark SoCs for the ultra-premium Surface Laptop Ultra. If youâve noticed, AMD is sorely missing from the list, even though the companyâs Xbox hardware ships with these chips. Well, a company executive has provided a reason, and itâs not because Microsoft has little to no love for AMD. A Microsoft executive says âwe love working with AMD,â but itâs working with a limited productâŚ
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The Hot Take: Nice, when to we get em?
The USB Implementers Forum now lists some of Intel's Core Ultra 400-series 'Nova Lake' platforms in its Integrators List, meaning that the products have passed applicable USB compliance and interoperability tests. The PCI-SIG Integrators List also includes Intelâs 900-series chipsets for Nova Lake-S processors. Such tests are conducted ahead of product launches to ensure interoperability and to gain the right to use the PCIe and USB logos on new products.Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Intel VP Robert Hallock setsâŚ
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The Hot Take: No privacy any where. Except maybe linux but then you get emulated gaming... I just don't like that emulation overhead i want bare metal raw performance.
A viral post on X claims that Windows keeps a thumbnail of every photo youâve ever deleted, stored secretly in a file called thumbcache_256.db. It sounds scary for a desktop OS used by 1.5 billion people. The post has 1.7M views so far, and I received several DMs asking if they should follow the instructions in the tweet.
To be fair, this is a Windows feature. File Explorer does keep a thumbnail cache, so it doesnât have to regenerate image previews when needed. However, the post goes too far on multiple levels.
Viral post claiming WindowsâŚ
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The Hot Take: Good to see the honor their warranty. Something becoming more rare in these times....
Itâs a scary situation when an expensive GPU like the RTX 5090 thatâs tamed using a water-cooled solution begins to show cracks in the exact waterblock thatâs used to effectively reduce its temperatures. One owner has shown evidence that it took the waterblock less than a month to begin displaying these cracks, but he was lucky that GIGABYTE offered a quick replacement for the AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE version. It took GIGABYTE around two weeks to provide the replacement for the water-cooled RTX 5090, which is a lower turnaround time consideringâŚ
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | September 27, 2026 |
GPU,
Hardware
The Hot Take: Sorry, what????
The WiCi One is available for preorders starting at $1,999.
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The Hot Take: Purtty!
French-language hardware site Hardware & Co has some brilliant die shots of most of Intel's latest processors in a blog entry that was actually posted up back in July but only spotted recently in the broader international hardware community by well-known enthusiast InstLatX64. We're only going to take a look at one of the die shots here, but
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