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- Preorder Thrustmaster's Ferrari 488 GT3 Racing Wheel Add-On To Dominate The Track
- NSA Raises Alarm Over Chinese Hackers Hiding In Modified Cisco Router Firmware
- Counter-Strike 2 Patch Intros A Key Matchmaking Change To Combat Cheaters
- Intel Core i7-14700KF 20-Core CPU Flirts With 6GHz In Leaked Benchmark
- NVIDIA Shows GeForce And Reflex Obliterating Counter-Strike 2 Latency
- PlayStation Head Jim Ryan Levels-Up To Retirement After Nearly 30 Years At Sony
- Study Discovers M87* Black Hole Is Spinning Like An Amazing Oscillating Jet.
- Samsung SSD 990 Pro 4TB Review: Big, Fast Storage For PCs And PS5
- Ultra-Rare Apple 1 Built By Wozniak And Jobs Hits Auction For A Cool $1.5M
- Maingear Is Inciting A Revolt With Its New Compact Gaming PC Packing Up To An RTX 4090
- Starfield DLSS 3 Mod Creator Fires Back At Pirates For Cracking DRM Paywall
- Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 Ushers In Next Gen XR Starting With The Meta Quest 3
- Researchers Discover A Startling Side-Channel Exploit On All GPUs, Even Integrated
- Logitech Playseat Challenge X For Racing Sims Brings A Unique Twist To Gaming Chairs
- AMD Ryzen 8000 Hawk Point APU Appears Headed To Next-Gen Minisforum Gaming Tablet
- FCC Proposes Return Of Net Neutrality Rules Repealed Under Trump Admin
- Uh Oh, Apple's Hot New iPhone 15 May Have A Serious Overheating Issue
- Amazon Responds To FTC Lawsuit Alleging It Inflates Prices, Overcharges Sellers
- NASA Is Taking Bids For A $1B Space Tug Mission To Crash The ISS Into Earth
- Intel Meteor Lake CPUs On The Desktop In 2024? Sure, But With A Critical Caveat
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Thrustmaster is introducing a new add-on racing wheel to its collection known as the Ferrari 488 GT3 Wheel Add-On. Inspired by Ferrari’s very successful 488 GT3 racing car, the wheel is an exact 1:1 replica of the steering wheel found on the real GT3 race car, sporting a carbon fiber finish. The wheel is compatible...
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Chinese threat actors are upping their game in the cybersecurity realm, as indicated by new Linux backdoors and other advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). With this, an international multi-agency team led by the National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a People’s Republic of China-linked group...
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That's right: the game came out yesterday, and it's already getting major patches. Of course, while Counter-Strike 2 officially launched yesterday, replacing CS:GO on Steam, it has been in active development and semi-open beta for some months. The big patch yesterday for the release made an incredible number of...
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A Geekbench score which appears to have been run by a system packing an Intel 14th Gen Core 'Raptor Lake Refresh' CPU has been spotted online. The headlining Core i7-14700KF processor is particularly interesting, as the i7-14700 products are expected to deliver the most meaningful upgrades over current gen parts...
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Counter-Strike in all of its forms has some of the most hardcore players of any game out there. These are people who want the game to be running at hundreds of FPS above their screen refresh for the infinitesimal input latency benefit that it gives. In that context, it's kind of crazy that the brand-new Counter-Strike...
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Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan has announced he will retire in March 2024. In an open letter from Ryan, he expressed his gratitude and pride in what the company had been able to achieve during his tenure.
Ryan remarked that he did not decide to retire lightly after being with the company...
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An international team of researchers has published a new paper confirming a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun indeed spins. The study, led by Chinese researcher Dr. CUI Yuzhu, was conducted using a global network of radio telescopes.
Supermassive black holes at the center of active...
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Samsung SSD 990 Pro: Starting At $69, 4TB - $334 MSRP Samsung has boosted the SSD 990 Pro series cpacaity to 4TB, while maximizing performance in PCIe Gen 4 systems. High Capacity Strong All-Around Performance Single-Sided Relatively Low Power Good Endurance PCIe Gen 5 SSDs Have Arrived Middling Game Level Loads...
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If you think the iPhone 15 Pro Max is expensive, wait until you see the asking price for an original and still functioning Apple-1 computer. Housed in its original Byte Shop case made from Hawaiian koa wood (which is also rare), this piece of computing history could fetch the owner a staggering $1.5 million, assuming...
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In case you missed it, Maingear recently unveiled a 'Drops' program in which the boutique system builder looks to dive "back into our roots" with preconfigured systems based on the hottest hardware (something we can obviously get behind at HotHardware), as well as limited edition runs. Though the program is only a...
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DLSS 3 modder PureDark has issued a response to pirates who cracked his DLSS 3 DRM paywall, enabling users to use PureDark’s frame generation mod for free in Starfield. The modder states that in the future, his mod will feature “hidden mines” that will make his mods buggy if the DRM is broken, making it much more...
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Today, Meta announced its next generation of VR headset, with the Meta Quest 3 starting at $499.99 and releasing on October 10th. While the device is interesting, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 under the hood powering this headset is even more interesting possibly, for those of us that work with silicon...
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Side channel attacks are always fascinating to see how they are executed, such as the recent discovery that encryption keys could be stolen by recording power LEDs on various devices. Researchers have found that malicious websites might be able to see usernames and other sensitive information by leaking it from...
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Logitech has released the Playseat Challenge X – Logitech G Edition. The design could be important for Logitech, as it brings pricing to new lows for a Logitech branded gaming cockpit, so beloved of sim racers. Logitech boasts of the Playseat Challenge X – Logitech G Edition’s price of $299 / €299, but this product...
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If you read that headline and balked at the idea of a gaming tablet, let us remind you that besides the Nintendo Switch, the recent spate of PC-based gaming handhelds are basically tablets. The device itself isn't really the interesting part of this story, though. Instead, the really interesting part is the SoC that...
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In the coming weeks, internet service providers in the United States could find themselves again bound by net neutrality rules. With the swearing in of a new commissioner, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now has a Democratic majority. That gives Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel enough votes to reinstate the...
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Some iPhone 15 owners are reporting that their hot new smartphone is, well, getting very hot. The high temperatures are being experienced while charging the iPhone 15 series smartphone or during prolonged use.
Apple launched its iPhone 15 lineup last week with the smartphone's first-ever USB-C charging port. While...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorney generals are taking a big swing at Amazon with a 172-page lawsuit alleging an "ongoing pattern of illegal conduct" to block competition. According to the lawsuit, Amazon's list of infractions includes things like inflating prices and putting the squeeze on...
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NASA has sent a request for proposal for an estimated $1B US Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), a spacecraft aimed at deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS) and ultimately safely crashing back to Earth. The United States, Japan, Canada, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have all committed to operating the station...
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The answer to the question of whether Intel's first disaggregated CPUs would be coming to desktop systems has flip-flopped several times. If you pay attention to leaks and rumors, you're probably tired of hearing about it because it's gone back and forth so often. Well, we got a definitive answer from Intel just a few...
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Nothing has released three products under its new budget-friendly CMF sub-brand. If you're shopping for more affordable alternatives to mainstream smartwatches, earphones, or chargers, CMF would like a word with you.
One of the headlining products from CMF (Color, Materials, Finish) is a $70 smartwatch called the...
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Newegg has rolled out a GPU trade-in program that gives buyers varying amounts of credit on their old graphics cards when purchasing new ones. Ostensibly, this is a move to reduce to e-waste, though we'd like to see the actual buyers who are going around tossing GeForce RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 cards into the garbage bin. Newegg's pat-on-the-back
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