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Latest News - August 2025
- Samsung Odyssey OLED G6, The First 500Hz OLED Gaming Monitor, Is Now Available
- NVIDIA's Alleged GeForce RTX 50 Super Pricing Just Changed For The Better
- WinRAR, Which You Totally Paid For, Was Under Siege By Zero-Day Attacks
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Hits EOL Status But Here's A Better Gaming PC Build Config
- AMD's Magnus APU Rumored To Power Next-Gen Xbox Consoles And Xbox PCs
- Astronomers Hopeful A Distant Fast Radio Burst Will Unlock Secrets Of The Early Universe
- Waze Says It's The End Of The Road For Millions Of Android Phones
- This iPhone 17 Pro Design Rumor Is Raising Antennas
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 Looks Strong In Surprising Benchmark Leak
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra 1TB Is $520 Off, MacBook Air Still Just $599
- Gamer Claims GeForce RTX 5090 Went Up In Flames While Playing Battlefield 6
- Samsung Galaxy S25 FE Renders And Specs Leak Revealing A Few Surprises
- While You Wait For GTA 6, DLSS 4 With Frame Gen Arrives For GTA 5 Enhanced
- MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Expert OC Review: A Cut Above
- Trump Calls Intel CEO Tan An Amazing Success Days After Calling For His Resignation
- Arm Neural Super Sampling Set To Bring DLSS-Style Upscaling To Mobile GPUs
- Microsoft's Copilot For Windows 11 Now Offers A Free GPT-5-Powered Smart Mode
- Samsung 9100 Pro SSD Review: A PCIe Gen 5 Storage Performance Champ
- Ultra-Affordable Apple MacBook May Be Inbound As Siri Overhaul Gets Indefinitely Delayed
- Battlefield 6 Beta Explodes Past 500K Gamers, Its Anti-Cheat Spanked Over 300K Cheaters
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All News for August 2025
Samsung is laying claim to the world's first OLED gaming monitor to sport a blistering 500Hz refresh rate, and if that's the kind of thing you've been waiting for, it's now available to purchase. The caveat is that it doesn't come cheap...
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The most contentious part about the modern GPU era is a toss-up between pricing and availability, at least when it comes to graphics cards for gaming PCs. So in that regard, there's a bit of good news floating around the rumor mill...
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Everyone's favorite file archiving utility isn't often in the news, but today is an exception. The WinRAR archiving utility has been the target of a couple of large-scale attacks that leverage a 0-day security vulnerability.
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The foremost Dutch tech site, Tweakers, is reporting that AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D has now reached End-of-Life (EOL). That means that any stock remaining in the channel is what's left, so if you want one of these chips, you'd better pick it...
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The Xbox has been taking some lumps this year. There has been a wave of layoffs and various headlines claiming that its hardware division is dead. The latter looks like a bad take though, with rumors circulating that there will be a next...
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A team of astronomers just discovered FRB 20240304B, a fast radio burst (FRB) from 11 billion years ago. It is the farthest FRB we now know, dating just about 3 billion years after the universe began.
Here's some backstory to explain...
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Drivers who rely on the popular navigation app Waze for their daily commute may soon need to consider a hardware upgrade. The Google-owned company is in the process of discontinuing updates for older Android devices, particularly for loyal...
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Apple could be incorporating an interesting structural/design tweak to the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro series. Latest supply chain whispers indicate that the device's antenna system may be relocated to wrap around the camera module, an idea inspired by the dual frequency band antenna design of the...
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A purported Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge prototype has appeared on Geekbench revealing very strong performance figures from the unreleased Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 chip. Set to launch next year, the phone's blistering scores (especially...
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Having trouble deciding between a fancy Android tablet one of Apple's iPad Pro models? Well, if you're looking for a higher end tablet with a big display and are willing to spend good money on one, there's a fantastic deal available right...
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The new Battlefield 6 beta may have been hot, but we don't think it should be hot enough to incinerate your GPU. That's what one gamer is alleging happened to his NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 while playing the popular preview of the game. It...
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New leaks are strongly suggesting that Samsung's latest Galaxy S25 Fan Edition (FE) is blurring the lines between its budget-friendly and premium flagship tiers, at least visually. Ironically, it's the adequate specifications on the inside...
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As its name implies, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced is an enhanced version of the mega-popular title with a bunch of visual upgrades for the PC platform, including some exclusive ray tracing features such as ambient occlusion and global...
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MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Expert OC: MSRP $1,299 The MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Expert OC has unique styling and goosed-up specs that allow it to outperform standard RTX 5080 series cards. Strong Performance Blackwell Architecture Unique Styling Cool And Quiet Tons Of Overclocking Headroom DLSS4 And RTX...
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is back in U.S. President Donald Trump's good graces after a "very interesting" joint meeting between the two, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent. The meeting...
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At SIGGRAPH 2025 today, Arm pulled the wraps off Neural Super Sampling (NSS), its first AI-driven upscaling technology designed for mobile GPUs. It's the debut application of "Arm neural technology," a planned set of features for future...
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Microsoft's new GPT-5-powered Smart mode, which OpenAI describes as the "best model to date", is automatically rolling out for free to Copilot users. We've tested it here at HotHardware and observed that you don't even need to update your...
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Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB SSD: $429.99 The Samsung 9100 Pro marks the company's entrance into the high-performance PCIe Gen 5 consume SSD market and it's a force to be reckoned with. Excellent All-Around Performance Configurable Via Samsung...
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We have a one-two combo of juicy Apple rumors today, about a new cost-optimized MacBook, along with the headwinds faced by the Apple Intelligence team in charge of enabling Siri with superhuman capabilities. Get your pinch of salt ready...
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EA is hoping that Battlefield 6 can turn the series’ fortunes around after playing second fiddle to Call of Duty for the last decade. The game’s explosive debut trailer and multiplayer reveal event succeeded in getting gamers hyped to jump...
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Dear friends, it is time to pour one out for the iconic, screeching sound of a modem connecting to the internet. AOL, a name synonymous with the early days of the world wide web, has announced it will officially end its dial-up internet...
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A frantic race is underway across the United States as consumers scramble to purchase electric vehicles before the $7,500 EV federal tax credit expires. With a hard deadline of September 30, a last-minute buying frenzy has taken hold. For...
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