Chris Harper
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Former PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden made a rather interesting comment on The Trophy Room podcast this week, stating that "the innovation needs to come not from making PS6 for $1200. It's to make another PS5 for $300. Now, that would be...
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The folks at Bitdefender have discovered a new type of malicious Android app that can force a phone into a nigh-unfixable boot loop without the app even being launched.
If the app is installation is kicked off and either Android 17 or...
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Another major The Legend of Zelda series release, another major emulation advancement made seemingly just so PC players aren't forced to accept Nintendo's hardware limitations. This time it's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake...
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It's been a while since we at HotHardware covered a major cyber-attack from Russian state-sponsored cybercriminal group APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, etc), but today they're once more in the news for a spooky no-click malware campaign that targets...
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AMD and Microsoft have collaborated to produce an official port of AMD's FSR 4.1.2 upscaling to Xbox Series X|S consoles, a move that will allow Xbox console developers to seamlessly implement AMD's machine learning-based scaler (either the
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Discord is at the cutting-edge of social media and instant messaging platforms in terms of features and customization, but its weak optimization is finally getting addressed with a full Rust programming language rewrite. Currently, Discord...
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Amidst an industry-wide surge in AI-generated games, game clones, recomps, and mods, Valve has added a few new requirements to its release checklist, the most notable of which is that a game needs to be played through the Steam launcher...
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As powerful as modern Apple Silicon-powered Macs have become for modern gaming workloads, Mac gamers everywhere remember that sinking feeling when they first received the notification that their favorite 32-bit Steam games would no longer...
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The latest October 28th cumulative update build for Windows 11 versions 26H2 and 25H2 has shipped, and with it comes numerous improvements to Windows 11, including Cloud Rebuild functionality. If you find yourself in a situation where Windows
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If you've been following Valve news this past year, you may recall the 12TB Steam Leak that occurred in August. When that leak happened, it revealed the existence of a scrapped "F-Stop" project intended as a prequel to Portal, that was...
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If your mobile device is running Android 12 or 13, or some newer versions without the latest security updates, you're likely vulnerable to an "SMS of Death" exploit that can soft-brick your phone and render it unusable without a factory...
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Microsoft Edge is now the first browser to support Windows 11's new "accelerated app launches" feature, which can improve launch speeds by 15-33%, depending on how intensely you're multitasking. If you're on Microsoft Edge version 150 or...
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This month, Grand Theft Auto VI is the cover story on Edge Magazine, and the developers at Rockstar Games have shared more information about the game ahead of its November 19th release date. To summarize the key points, there are two...
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AMD has been improving its various FSR 4 technologies across its past and present GPU architectures, which includes FSR 4 Frame Generation. Specifically, AMD is claiming improvements to frame pacing with FSR 4 Frame Generation enabled with...
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Bolstered by AI, the gaming world has seen an explosion in the number of projects based on decompiled and recompiled binaries lately, and with the introduction of the new RecompLauncher, PC and even PS5 players eager for an all-in-one hub...
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A newly-revealed UEFI exploit has entered the public sphere as CVE-2026-97631, and since it targets the TianoCore EDK2 open source codebase used by virtually all major manufacturers for their servers' UEFI firmware, enterprise and...
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Shader compilation stutter is one of the most notorious problems plaguing modern PC releases, but Epic just took a major step toward fixing it forever for Unreal Engine 5.8 with the addition of support for Microsoft's DirectX Advanced...
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Ever wanted to see a Nintendo Entertainment System converted into a functioning x86 PC? Turning an OG NES into an x86 PC sounds like a far-fetched idea, but that's exactly what YouTuber ThroatyMumbo has done with NESPC. The project uses an...
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Modders have successfully unlocked the artificial compute limits placed upon consumer-oriented NVIDIA GeForce GPUs in order to make them nearly as capable as professional NVIDIA RTX GPUs for relevant AI and compute workloads. Specifically...
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In unfortunate news for Apple fans, the much-anticipated iPhone Duo is here, but not without issues. Numerous claims across social media platforms of broken iPhone Duo screens have emerged since the phone launched just yesterday. What's...
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The never-ending Half-Life 3 saga continues, thanks to a passing mention of "HLX" by Valve composer Mike Morasky. For those unaware, past data mining efforts pointed toward HLX being a codename for Half-Life 3. The full quote is in the...
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AMD has officially ported over the AMD Overclocking Driver (AOD) used by the popular AMD Ryzen Master Software to Linux, but it's not a complete port of Ryzen Master's feature set just yet. Currently, the initial version of the AMD AOD...
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