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.
World of Warcraft Forever’s beta adds more levels, zones, and a new dungeon this week
The multi-stage rocket that is the World of Warcraft Forever beta has dropped its escape thrusters and officially started its next phase this week, which means there...
Elon Musk confirms discussions with TSMC about Terafab chipmaking collaboration
Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project.
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.
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.
WRUP: Horror movies of 2027 edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the Halloween costumes we'd...
Steam hits record $1.7 billion in September 2026 despite soaring PC hardware costs — platform approaches 21,000 new releases in 2026, on track to top $20 billion annually
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.
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.
Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions
Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.
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.