The gaming world might be eagerly awaiting the release of Grand Theft Auto VI later this year, but a dedicated group of diehard fans continue to unearth new details from prior entries in the legendary franchise. The latest batch of new information comes by way of a lucky find by a super fans in Europe, which is composed of never before seen

Valve employee Ido Magal, best known as the project lead on Counter-Strike 2 and Global Offensive, as well as a level designer for the original Counter-Strike, has proudly announced that Valve successfully VAC banned roughly 960,000 farming bot accounts. Ido credits the move as “the result of a bunch of investigation that benefited from user

Look, I’m not going to lie to you and tell you RAM is cheap again. It may never again be as cheap as it was nine months ago. Prices absolutely are trending the right way, though, likely impacted by a few different factors. Everyone’s realized that OpenAI is not in fact going to buy 40% of the global DRAM supply as it once intended, and both

This week, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 preview build, dubbed KB5079391, but it’s also had to pause the rollout due to an installation error with a currently-unknown cause and fix. It’s a shame, since KB5079391 does incorporate a lot of desirable features and fixes for a variety of Windows 11 issues. These include improved Application

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have successfully transformed common plastic waste into a high-value precursor for Parkinson’s disease medication. Using engineered E. coli bacteria, the team converted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into adipic acid, which was then further synthesized into a vital drug component, proving that the

What does “FSR” stand for, PC gamers? If you said FidelityFX Super Resolution, well, you’re mistaken. It turns out FSR doesn’t stand for anything; instead, it’s simply a brand for AMD’s graphics technologies. AMD told us this back around the launch of FSR Redstone, at which point FSR 4 was being rebranded to “FSR Upscaling”, and then we had

GM’s Corvette ZR1X hybrid monster has asserted itself over electric rivals and internal combustion legends in dominant fashion. Many already know that the ZR1X has hypercar-like performance, and yet, nothing beats some real world head-to-heads against the likes of an army of Tesla Model S Plaids and a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170.

Yes,

It did not take long for MacBook Pro models sporting Apple’s brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max silicon to go on sale. Announced earlier this month, both the 14-inch and 16-inch variants are discounted during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale event, and while they’re technically not part of the promotion, you can save between $150 and $200 over MSRP, depending

A recent blind test confirms that the only thing a $4,000 boutique audio cable transmits more effectively than a $7 Amazon Basics cord is a massive amount of cash from your bank account to the manufacturer’s pockets. The guilty party in this case is Kimber Kable, although brands like Monster and Audio Quest have been on the naughty list as

As the spring air turns crisp, the evening of April 1 will host the first major celestial event of the season. On Wednesday, the Pink Moon will reach peak illumination at 10:12 p.m. EDT, serving as a traditional herald of the changing seasons.

Despite its name, the Pink Moon doesn’t actually have a rose-colored hue. Instead, the title originates

A new study focusing on shadow AI, security gaps, and device instability has found that systems running macOS are far more stable than PCs with Windows installed, resulting in significantly fewer application crashes and being less prone to freezing, among other so-called “micro-frictions” that can cause a cause a productivity gap in the enterprise.

Microsoft has been quietly removing references to its viral ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign and lest there was any doubt about why, the company confirmed in a statement the reasoning behind its decision to move on. Simply put, new Xbox boss Asha Sharma made the decision to abandon the controversial campaign because it did not align with

Epic Games’ recent lay offs of over 1,000 employees has been decried by gamers and industry professionals alike, most prominently by Chet Faliszek, former Valve writer best known for his work on the Portal, Half-Life, and Left 4 Dead series. Faliszek’s comments, originally made on TikTok, have spread across the web like wildfire. Not only

Google Translate’s new Gemini-powered, real-time voice translation feature is finally expanding from Android to iOS devices a well, including iPhones and iPads. The update also extends the new features to more countries and languages, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand, and the U.K.

The blog post announcing that live

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 60 Series GPUs will be powered by the Rubin architecture, which exists only for AI and data center use thus far. The Rubin CPX, for example, is built around NVIDIA’s GR212 chips, but new information shared with YouTuber RedGamingTech claims the RTX 60 Series chips will be the GR202 (RTX 6090), GR203 (RTX 6080), and GR205

In case you missed the news on Thursday, AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is a real product, and it’s coming to market next month for an as-yet-undisclosed price. This CPU is a Socket AM5 desktop processor with fully sixteen Zen 5 CPU cores, split across two eight-core chiplets, both of which are stacked on top of a 64MB slab of SRAM cache,

One of the major selling points of AMD’s Ryzen processors for the desktop is the chip designer’s commitment to socket longevity. To put it into perspective, socket AM4 introduced with AMD’s original Zen processors is turning 10 years old this year and is still seeing platform support with chipset updates and even new processor models. Will

Major changes are afoot at Xbox, which has already seen a big shakeup to top management with the departures of Phil Spencer, the long-time face of the brand, and former Xbox President Sarah Bond. Microsoft elevated Asha Sharma to Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft Gaming to lead Xbox’s comeback, and while a lot of the talk as been

It’s giveaway time again here at HotHardware. This one will feature some serious horsepower via a custom, hand-built by HH Gaming PC sponsored by our friends at Biwin, Zotac and MSI, in conjunction with LANFest’s charity support efforts going on at PAX East this weekend.

We have a brand-new custom gaming rig up for grabs, designed to deliver

Android 17 has reached the Platform Stability and third beta phase. Per Google, Platform Stability means that since “the API surface is locked; you can perform final compatibility testing and push your Android 17-targeted apps to the Play Store.”

This is an especially pivotal time for app developers, and certain Android 17 features like