<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>HotHardware Editor’s Picks</title><link>https://hothardware.com</link> <description>Top stories from HotHardware selected by our editors</description><image><url>https://hothardware.com/content/images/logo-transparent.png</url><title>HotHardware Editor’s Picks</title><link>https://hothardware.com</link></image> <language>en-us</language><webMaster>davea@hothardware.com (Dave Altavilla)</webMaster><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Reduces OpenAI Dependency With In-House Frontier Models]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-reduces-openai-dependency</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-reduces-openai-dependency</guid><description><![CDATA[Over the past several months, Microsoft and OpenAI quietly restructured the partnership that has helped define the recent AI boom, and the ripple effects will likely affect everyone from enterprise IT managers to casual ChatGPT users. To understand where things stand today, though, understand that this wasn't a single deal, but rather two ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:38:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Tim Sweezy</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70800/thumbnail/default/thumbnail_microsoft-humanist-superintelligence.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA RTX Spark vs. Apple M5 Pro: The Unified Architecture Battle]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-spark-vs-apple-m5-pro</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-spark-vs-apple-m5-pro</guid><description><![CDATA[Announced earlier this week at Computex, NVIDIA's RTX Spark has finally been revealed after what seems like years of leaks and rumors concerning the "N1/N1X". These chips are the consumer versions of the GB10 Superchip found in the NVIDIA DGX Spark that was released last October. That means you get the same 20 Arm CPU cores on board which, ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Zak Killian</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70789/thumbnail/default/thumb-nvidia-spark-laptops.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Watch Series 11 Hits $299 Record Low, Google Pixel Watch 4 Is $310]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/apple-watch-series-11-299-record-low-google-pixel-watch-is-310</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/apple-watch-series-11-299-record-low-google-pixel-watch-is-310</guid><description><![CDATA[Time is ticking on securing a Father's Day gift, but the good news is, there are plenty of deals to be had on consumer electronics. Maybe you're looking to splurge on a mini LED or OLED TV, and if that's the case, check out our recent write-up on some fantastic TV deals. If, on the other hand, you want to keep the spending a bit more reasonable, ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70798/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-apple-watch-series-11.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[65-Inch TCL QM5K Mini LED TV Deal For $450 Arrives In Time For Father's Day]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/65-inch-tcl-qm5k-mini-led-tv-deal-450</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/65-inch-tcl-qm5k-mini-led-tv-deal-450</guid><description><![CDATA[Your dad may have accumulated quite the collection of ties over the years via Father's Day gifts and other occasions, and speaking as a parent myself, he would no doubt happily accept another one this year. However, if you're aiming for a bigger surprise this Father's Day while still remaining fiscally responsible, just as pops taught you ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:53:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70797/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-tcl-qm5k-mini-led-tv.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wildcat Lake Refresh May Replace Intel's Lowest-End Nova Lake Chip]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/wildcat-lake-refresh-replace-low-end-nova-lake</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/wildcat-lake-refresh-replace-low-end-nova-lake</guid><description><![CDATA[Essentially since the original Atom, there's been a big CPU core and a little CPU core architecture in parallel development at Intel. As a result, there has long been a weird overlap at the lower end of the market, where you could choose a chip with a few big cores or a chip with several small cores, and they traded blows depending on what ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Zak Killian</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70796/thumbnail/default/thumb-wildcat-lake.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD Fires Back At Claims FSR 4.1 Is Skipping RDNA 3.5 iGPUs]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-fires-back-at-claims-fsr-41-is-skipping-rdna-35-igpus</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-fires-back-at-claims-fsr-41-is-skipping-rdna-35-igpus</guid><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, a rumor stemming from HardwareLuxx speaking to AMD's David McAfee indicated that AMD would not be bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 iGPUs, with the final decision seeming to lean toward "no." AMD's Franz Azor has since responded to outlets claiming this is a deconfirmation, stating that "no such decision [...] has been made," ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:51:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Chris Harper</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70794/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-fsr-on.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Set For August Release On Nintendo Switch 2]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/elden-ring-tarnished-edition-release-switch-2</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/elden-ring-tarnished-edition-release-switch-2</guid><description><![CDATA[Nintendo Switch 2 players can rejoice as they will finally be able to play one of the best games of the decade after it was delayed late last year. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition will be released on the handheld later this summer and will bring new content along with it to entice both new and returning players to embark on the deadly journey ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:59:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alan Velasco</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70795/thumbnail/default/elden-ring-tarnished-edition-thumb.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Bots Are Now Dominating Internet Traffic Over Humans Months Before Cloudflare Predicted]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/ai-bots-are-now-dominating-the-web</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/ai-bots-are-now-dominating-the-web</guid><description><![CDATA[CND and web security provider CloudFlare has released data that reveals that AI agents have officially overtaken human beings as the primary users of the internet. It was expected to happen sooner rather than later, but since the future is now, let's allow that fact to sink in for a second.

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:53:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Aaron Leong</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70793/thumbnail/default/thumb-ai-agents.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Is Rapidly Building Its Own AI Successor, Anthropic Wants To Hit Pause]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/claude-building-own-ai-successor</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/claude-building-own-ai-successor</guid><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has disclosed that Claude, its own AI model, now writes more than 80% of the code going into the company's internal codebase. The company adds the pace at which it's doing so is accelerating fast enough to raise a genuinely alarming question: how long before the AI is building itself without much human input at all?

That trend, ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:35:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Tim Sweezy</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70791/thumbnail/default/thumbnail_humanoid-ai-coding.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Discover A Secret The Milky Way's Black Hole Hid For 50 Years]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/astronomers-discover-a-secret-milky-ways-black-hole-hid-for-50-years</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/astronomers-discover-a-secret-milky-ways-black-hole-hid-for-50-years</guid><description><![CDATA[The half-century-long hunt for a missing piece of the Milky Way’s heart has finally ended with scientists finally discovering active wind caused by the black hole's jets.

According to theoretical physics, as a supermassive black hole feeds on surrounding material, the intense friction and energy should generate powerful outflows of winds ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Aaron Leong</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70792/thumbnail/default/thumb-sgrstar-close.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVIDIA's RTX 5060 May Finally Get The VRAM Upgrade Gamers Wanted]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/nvidias-rtx-5060-may-finally-get-vram-upgrade-gamers-wanted</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/nvidias-rtx-5060-may-finally-get-vram-upgrade-gamers-wanted</guid><description><![CDATA[NVIDIA may still be cooking up something Super (with a capital 'S') after all. Over on X, leaker MEGAsizeGPU claims the oft-rumored GeForce RTX 50 Super series is "back on track" and as part of the launch, there will be a refreshed GeForce RTX 5060 graphics cards with 12GB of VRAM, which is an increase of 4GB on the model that currently exists.

The ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:46:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70790/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-geforce-rtx-pc.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Narrows Steam Machine Release Window To Summer As Pricing Fears Mount]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/valve-narrows-steam-machine-launch-window-summer</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/valve-narrows-steam-machine-launch-window-summer</guid><description><![CDATA[All eyes are on Valve and its upcoming Steam Machine release, with questions looming over when exactly it will release and how much it will cost. Those questions remain unanswered, though Valve did offer a bit more clarity on the former, saying in a blog post that both the Steam Machine and Steam Frame will be "shipping this summer."

While ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70788/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-valve-steam-machine.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[HP And Ferrari Roll Out Ultra-Luxury $5,599 Carbon Fiber AI Laptop]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/hp-ferrari-roll-out-ultra-luxury-carbon-fiber-ai-laptop</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/hp-ferrari-roll-out-ultra-luxury-carbon-fiber-ai-laptop</guid><description><![CDATA[HP and Ferrari Design Studio are releasing an ultra-luxury, ultra-limited laptop with high-end specifications that the two outfits have been designing for the past two years. Debuting in time for the Monaco Grand Prix, the collaborative CNC precision-milled machine pairs an exotic carbon fiber and Corning Gorilla Glass bottom panel (shown ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:50:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70787/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-hp-scuderia-ferrari-laptop.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel Insists Arc GPUs Aren't Leaving Its PC Hardware Roadmap]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/intel-insists-arc-gpus-are-alive</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/intel-insists-arc-gpus-are-alive</guid><description><![CDATA[Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards were a credible effort, and the B-series "Battlemage" GPUs were fantastic for what they were. So naturally, we were looking forward to Intel's next discrete GPU release with high hopes. After all, the Xe3 GPU inside the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs is phenomenal. Unfortunately, just as Intel ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Zak Killian</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70786/thumbnail/default/thumb-intel-arc-battlemage-generic.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Warns Mac Office 2019 Users: Upgrade Or Lose File Access]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/mac-office-2019-lose-file-access</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/mac-office-2019-lose-file-access</guid><description><![CDATA[Apple device owners using older versions of Microsoft Office, including Office 2019, Office 2021 and Microsoft 365, may have to contend with reduced functionality starting on July 13, 2026. This means that users will be unable to edit, save or create new files, but will still be able to open, view and print files. Microsoft, however, claims ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alan Velasco</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70785/thumbnail/default/microsoft-office-2019-2021-limited-functionality-thumb.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[New AI Cyber Worm Thinks Up Its Own Attacks To Infect Computers]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/new-ai-cyber-worm-thinks-up-its-own-attacks-to-infect-computers</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/new-ai-cyber-worm-thinks-up-its-own-attacks-to-infect-computers</guid><description><![CDATA[AI-powered malware is a growing threat, but the extent of that threat was nebulous until researchers from the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, and CleverHans Lab presented a new PoC (proof of concept) attack developed with a local model running on only a single GPU.

Specifically, CleverHans Lab reveals that its AI-driven worm requires ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Chris Harper</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70783/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-ai-worm.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart Slashes $550 Off This Beastly Ryzen 7 9800X3D And Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming PC]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/walmart-slashes-550-off-ryzen-7-9800x3d-radeon-rx-9070-xt-pc</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/walmart-slashes-550-off-ryzen-7-9800x3d-radeon-rx-9070-xt-pc</guid><description><![CDATA[Gamers can't seem to catch a break. It wasn't all that long ago when the cryptocurrency mining craze deplete the market of mid-range and high-end GPUs. After that wave passed, tariffs wreaked havoc on PC part pricing, and now an AI-driven shortage of key components such as memory and storage is causing upheaval. What's a PC gamer in need of ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:28:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70784/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-skytech-gaming-azure-3-plus-pc.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's Quirky New Dreambeans AI Turns Real Life Into Cartoons]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/googles-dreambeans-ai-turns-real-life-into-cartoons</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/googles-dreambeans-ai-turns-real-life-into-cartoons</guid><description><![CDATA[Hot off last month's Google I/O event, Google Labs has a new experiment it wants users to try, and it's a pretty interesting departure from how many normally think about AI assistants. It's called Dreambeans, and despite the name, the idea is fairly straightforward. Instead of endlessly scrolling someone else's life feed, a user will get a ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:11:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Tim Sweezy</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70782/thumbnail/default/thumbnail_google-dreambeans.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Says Its New AI Hubs Slash Water Use To Restaurant Levels]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-says-new-ai-hubs-slash-water-use-to-restaurant-levels</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-says-new-ai-hubs-slash-water-use-to-restaurant-levels</guid><description><![CDATA[The AI expansion explosion has been colliding with environmental limits, forcing tech giants to rethink the massive resource footprints of their infrastructure. At the Microsoft Build 2026 conference, CEO Satya Nadella claimed that the company's newest AI data centers solve the problem by using as much water annually as a single restaurant.

This ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:03:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Aaron Leong</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70781/thumbnail/default/thumb-fairwater.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA’s 11-Year Mars Probe Lost After Tumbling Out Of Control]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/nasas-11-year-mars-probe-lost-after-tumbling-out-of-control</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/nasas-11-year-mars-probe-lost-after-tumbling-out-of-control</guid><description><![CDATA[NASA has ended the MAVEN mission after losing contact with the $582 million Mars orbiter during a routine pass behind the planet. This concludes more than 11 years of groundbreaking atmospheric science and discoveries.

Trouble began on December 6 last year, during a standard 20-30 minute orbit pass behind the Red Planet. Up until that point, ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:36:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Aaron Leong</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70780/thumbnail/default/thumb-maven-orbiter.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD Hits Record X86 CPU Market Share As Intel Supply Stalls In Q1]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-hits-record-x86-cpu-market-share-intel-supply-stalls</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-hits-record-x86-cpu-market-share-intel-supply-stalls</guid><description><![CDATA[AMD gained more ground on rival Intel in x86 market share, with fresh figures from Mercury Research's latest report showing AMD hitting an all-time high at 32.6%. The good news for Intel is that it is still dominating, though it's 67.4% share of the overall x86 CPU market is down sequentially from 68.6% and down from 72.9% in the same quarter ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:24:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70779/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su-silhouette-logo.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Battery Rules Trigger Hardware Redesign For Nintendo Switch 2]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/eu-battery-rules-trigger-hardware-redesign-nintendo-switch-2</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/eu-battery-rules-trigger-hardware-redesign-nintendo-switch-2</guid><description><![CDATA[In order to be in compliance with European Union directives and regulations as they relate to batteries, Nintendo confirmed it will make changes to its Switch 2 handheld console in the region so that the system's battery is easy to replace. However, don't hold your breath waiting for a revised Switch 2 console to find its way to the U.S. and ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:25:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Paul Lilly</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70778/thumbnail/default/thumbnail-nintendo-switch-2-consoles.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers Exploit Meta's AI Chatbot To Hijack Prominent Instagram Accounts]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/hackers-metas-ai-chatbot-hijack-instagram-accounts</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/hackers-metas-ai-chatbot-hijack-instagram-accounts</guid><description><![CDATA[Meta has deployed an “AI support assistant” to help handle customer service requests, which is a monumental task considering the company has hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Unfortunately, hackers discovered that it was possible to convince the chatbot to change the e-mail address associated with an Instagram account and use that to ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Alan Velasco</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70777/thumbnail/default/meta-ai-chatbot-exploit-account-takeover-thumb.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD Details Massive Engineering Work Behind The Ryzen 7 5800X3D's Revival]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-details-5800x3d-revival-engineering</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/amd-details-5800x3d-revival-engineering</guid><description><![CDATA[To be frank, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is still a fantastic gaming processor to this day. You could pair a bleeding-edge GeForce RTX 5080 or Radeon RX 9070 XT with an older AM4 machine sporting a 5800X3D and lose virtually nothing in terms of gaming experience versus a newer CPU, save for perhaps longer shader compilation times. So why did AMD ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Zak Killian</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70776/thumbnail/default/thumb-amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-includes-3d-v-cache.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Reveals Project Solara, An Android-Based OS For AI Agents]]></title><link>https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-project-solara-android-based-os-for-ai-agents</link><guid>https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-project-solara-android-based-os-for-ai-agents</guid><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has announced Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform built specifically for AI agents and the specialized hardware they run on. Unveiled at Build 2026 by the company's Applied Sciences Group, it is one of the more ambitious things Microsoft has put out in a while. The idea is that users stop opening apps and start talking to ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Tim Sweezy</author><media:content url="https://hothardware.com/contentimages/newsitem/70774/thumbnail/default/thumbnail_project-solara-ai-device.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></item></channel></rss>