Taiwan indicts 10 for smuggling US military-grade chips to China, parts routed to missile and radar programs using forged Taiwan defense institute orders

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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 8, 2026

Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted 10 company leaders over Texas Instruments (TI) and Analog Devices (ADI) military-grade chips allegedly sold to China, the United Daily News reports. Orders for the chips allegedly used the name of Taiwan’s own defense research institute and were exported as “Made in Taiwan.” Investigators believe the chips ended up with Chinese research units building missiles and military radar.

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Make the jump to an OLED gaming monitor and save 48%

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Tom’s Hardware • Stewart Bendle • October 8, 2026

OLED displays are becoming the top choice for gaming screens due to their fast response times, deep black contrast, and vibrant colors. LG’s UltraGear 45GX900A-B monitor is currently at its lowest price in thirty days, costing $884.99. This represents a significant drop from its original launch price of $1699.99, offering nearly a 50% savings. The article notes that prices for OLED gaming monitors have decreased over the last couple of years as technology adoption grows and concerns about burn-in fade.

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Score a 1080p gaming PC for less than $1,000 right now, fitted with Nvidia or AMD GPUs

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Tom’s Hardware • Ben Stockton • October 8, 2026

Walmart and Best Buy are currently offering two gaming PCs under $1,000, featuring Nvidia or AMD graphics cards. The ABS Cyclone M Aqua at Walmart costs $999 and includes an Intel Core i5-14400F processor, 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, a 1TB SSD, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 with 8GB VRAM. This machine also comes with an additional 2TB Verbatim Gen 4 SSD, though it is unclear if this drive is pre-installed. The RTX 5060 allows for high frame rates at 1080p resolution and supports DLSS, a technology that uses AI to improve performance and enable multi-frame generation.

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SpaceX reportedly seeking $40 billion debt package for Nvidia AI hardware

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Tom’s Hardware • Anton Shilov • October 8, 2026

SpaceX is reportedly looking to raise $40 billion to acquire Nvidia AI processors in a bid to expand its compute capabilities, reports the Financial Times . The financing could combine $10 billion in bank loans with $30 billion in investment-grade debt and may be completed in 2027, though discussions are still at an early stage and there is no guarantee that a transaction will materialize.

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Former Groq engineers sue board over $20 billion Nvidia deal

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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 8, 2026

Two former Groq engineers are suing Groq’s former board and former CEO Jonathan Ross, alleging the board handed over employees and company technology to Nvidia in a $20 billion deal. The proposed class action, filed in Delaware’s Court of Chancery by Benjamin Serebrin and Joshua Rubin and unsealed Monday, alleges the deal, with a $17 billion license fee for all backers and a separate $3 billion Nvidia stock pool for engineers who transferred, kept billions from other shareholders.

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China allegedly intercepted UPS-shipped F-35 parts after employee missed email warning

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Tom’s Hardware • Mark Tyson • October 8, 2026

Insiders speaking to Bloomberg report that top-secret F-35 fighter jet parts were intercepted by China after a UPS worker missed an email warning about shipping regulations. The Royal Australian Air Force sent cockpit canopies and weapons-bay doors from Australia to San Francisco for inspection. These items are coated with radar-absorbing material, which makes their stealth capabilities more sensitive than the physical parts themselves.

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Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more

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Tom’s Hardware • Bruno Ferreira • October 8, 2026

It’s a reasonable assessment that everyone and their dog is tired of Electron-based desktop apps that pack a full web browser and waste gobs of RAM. Spotify lovers now have a reprieve from the memory blues in the form of the Spotifast client.

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AMD’s EPYC Verano AI host CPU will reportedly use a special SB1 socket

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Tom’s Hardware • Anton Shilov • October 8, 2026

AMD’s upcoming EPYC 9006-series ‘Verano’ CPUs, designed specifically for AI servers, will reportedly use a new SB1 socket according to a listing at Dynatron discovered by InstLatX64. This new socket is smaller than the SP7 and SP8 sockets used for other Zen 6-based processors, which implies different power and cooling requirements. The Verano CPU features up to 72 cores operating at speeds up to 5 GHz and includes a massive 24-channel LPDDR5X memory subsystem using replaceable SOCAMM2 modules. AMD positions this chip as a host processor that orchestrates workloads for AI accelerators rather than focusing on maximum general-purpose performance.

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Physicists identify ‘octupolar’ magnetism, with implications for quantum technologies

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Phys.org • September 30, 2026

Physicists at the University of Toronto have discovered a way to detect "octupolar" magnetism, a complex magnetic state featuring eight poles instead of the usual two found in standard magnets. While most magnets operate as simple dipoles with north and south poles, this new form of order was previously invisible to conventional measurement tools. The research team led by Professor Arun Paramekanti developed a method using light to observe atomic vibrations caused by spinning electrons, marking a critical first step toward applying these states in future data storage and computing technologies.

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Zinc oxide quantum dots enable faster charge detection, laying groundwork for spin qubits

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Phys.org • September 30, 2026

Researchers at Tohoku University, the National Institute for Materials Science, and the University of Tokyo have successfully demonstrated charge sensing and high-frequency reflectometry using zinc oxide quantum dots. This work, published in Physical Review Applied, addresses a major challenge in semiconductor quantum computing: rapidly detecting electron charge states in materials like zinc oxide that differ from traditional silicon or gallium arsenide.

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