Microsoft continues to go all in with AI, announcing that Copilot will be receiving the addition of a new DALL-E 3 model and GPT-4 Turbo along with several other features. Windows 11 users can expect to see these improvements in 2024. Moreover, Microsoft will also be making Copilot available to anyone with a web browser with the launch of

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Infuses Copilot For Windows 11 With DALL-E 3 And GPT-4 Turbo

If you’re still rocking Windows 10, don’t panic, fee-based security updates are not imminent. However, they are coming once Windows 10 officially reaches End of Life (EOL) status, which barring any reprieves will happen on October 14, 2025. If by chance you’re still running what will then be considered a legacy OS (and it’s likely many people

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Details Plan To Charge Windows 10 Users A Fee For Future Security Updates

Popular genetic testing company 23andMe has revealed the possible true impact of its recent October data breach. Contrary to an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing on Friday by the company, the breach is now said to affect 6.9 million individuals worldwide.

On Friday, 23andMe stated that only a small subset of its customers

Source: Hot Hardware – 23andMe Discloses Startling Data Breach To SEC Impacting 6.9M User Profiles

What exactly makes a graphics card a GeForce RTX 3050? Simply put, it’s the name on the box. From there, NVIDIA can dictate what specs constitute the model name, and those specs can be revised over time (a concept that’s not unique to NVIDIA, by the way). We bring this up because NVIDIA is reportedly preparing some changes to the GeForce RTX

Source: Hot Hardware – A Gimped GeForce RTX 3050 Desktop Card With A Mobile GPU May Be In The Pipeline

Counter-Strike 2 has been out for a little while now, providing an updated and perhaps a more fun experience than the former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. However, in the time since the game’s launch, some nefarious players have found way to cheats, which diminishes that experience in general. As such, Valve has had to ratchet up its bans

Source: Hot Hardware – Valve Counter Strike 2 Ban Wave Obliterates Seemingly Innocent Accounts

Have some sympathy for marketers. They’re right there on the front lines of the brand wars, fighting for mindshare as part of the eternal battle for market share. Like any soldiers in a war zone, sometimes marketers make questionable decisions if they think it will give them a leg up on the enemy—questionable decisions like “comparing our

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Seemingly Backtracks On Slides Comparing AMD’s CPU Marketing To Snake Oil

Universal Japan’s Super Nintendo World will be getting its first new area, based on the Donkey Kong Country franchise. This new area will come to the Osaka, Japan based theme park in the Spring of 2024. It will be a space with a lot of greenery, pulling inspiration from the jungle themes found throughout the popular game series.

One of

Source: Hot Hardware – Super Nintendo World Theme Park Gets Its First DLC And It’s Donkey Kong Country

A couple was sadly robbed and had their truck stolen in a pair of brazen thieves right outside their Washington D.C. apartment. While occurrences like this happen way too often, what’s bizarre about this theft was in the midst of the robbing, the perpetrators took one look at the victim’s Android phone and decided to give it back. The reason?

Source: Hot Hardware – Carjackers Return Android Phone To Uber Eats Driver Because It Wasn’t An iPhone

You can always leave it to the eagle-eyed gamers to uncover the most subtle hints of new products coming. No, we’re not talking about the ridiculously hyped GTA 6 and its treasure trove of surprises. The next best thing is in new hardware tidbits, and in this case, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Super refresh. While it seems to be no surprise that it

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4080 Super Breaks Cover In Update To A Popular System Utility

Astronomers have identified an object in deep space captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as being an elusive dusty star-forming galaxy. Object AzTECC71 first appeared as a blob from ground-based telescopes before later vanishing completely from Hubble’s view.

The image captured by Webb is not the typical image some may be used

Source: Hot Hardware – Webb Space Telescope Captures An Evasive Glowing Monster That Keeps Disappearing

By the year 2026, there will be nearly 5 billion graphics chips sitting pretty in PC systems, a figure that includes integrated graphics as found on many AMD and Intel processors. As for discrete GPUs, including add-in boards that gamers jam into their PCI Express slots, market penetration in the PC is expected to achieve 30% within the next

Source: Hot Hardware – GPU Shipments Rebound In A Big Way To End The Post-Covid Black Death Phenomenon

Logitech is launching a new version of its A50 series of gaming headsets with the Astro A50 X. The key selling point for the fifth-generation headset is its compatibility. Gamers will be able to use it on Xbox, PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac. This official compatibility across platforms is rarely seen in headsets, with users usually needing to

Source: Hot Hardware – Logitech’s Flagship Astro A50 X Wireless Gaming Headset Plays Nice With PC And Console

The OnePlus 12 has officially launched in China in an event celebrating the brand’s 10th anniversary. As one of the most anticipated flagship phones, the OnePlus 12 doesn’t disappoint, at least on paper—it will be rocking the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with plenty of RAM, storage, and a generous battery pack that should push the phone to the

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Launches With A Huge Battery And Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Firepower

Origin PC Neuron (starts at $2,200, as tested $4,625) Origin’s customizable gaming PC has lots of high-powered hardware, an attractive design, and a quiet cooling solution that’s up to the challenge.  Great attention to detail in build 100% industry standard parts and components Plenty of options in the configurator Excellent gaming performance…

Source: Hot Hardware – Origin PC Neuron Review: Immaculate Gaming Desktop With Muscle

NVIDIA rolled out a new ‘Game Ready’ GPU driver for GeForce owners this week, version 546.29 WHQL, which brings optimizations to Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (not to be confused with the 2.1 update) and some bug fixes. Since then, however, NVIDIA has made available an optional GPU hotfix—version 546.31—to squash a couple of annoying bugs

Source: Hot Hardware – This NVIDIA Hotfix GPU Driver Solves A Stuttering Issue And A Wonky Discord Bug

Rockstar Games wasn’t planning to unveil its highly anticipated first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the next major installment in one of the most popular game franchises of all time, until Tuesday, December 5. Rather than wait, however, Rockstar has released the trailer a day early in response to a now-banned X (formerly Twitter) account

Source: Hot Hardware – Official Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Filled With Hints Drops Early With A Launch Date

When Cyberpunk 2077 got its Phantom Liberty expansion and 2.0 update, CD Projekt Red said that was the end of the line for major content updates to the title. Well, the company appears to have done a little fibbing, because a new trailer just dropped for Update 2.1, and it’s coming along with a whole pack of new pieces for the PC’s premier

Source: Hot Hardware – Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.1 Update Adds New Vehicles, Revamped Bosses, Metro Rides, And More

With Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake-based mobile processors launching soon, various design wins are started to leak. This time, an upcoming Samsung laptop was spotted — the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra –featuring a Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and GeForce RTX 4050 graphics. Samsung’s new laptop will be the successor to the outgoing Galaxy Book 3 Ultra, which

Source: Hot Hardware – A Meteor Lake Laptop Breaks Cover At Retail Ahead Of Intel’s Next-Gen CPU Launch

There’s a whole bunch of PC gaming handhelds on the market now, and just about every one has its advantages and disadvantages. The Steam Deck has the most varied inputs (and now with the OLED model, arguably the best screen), the Lenovo Legion Go has the biggest screen and detachable controls, and the various Ayaneo, One-Notebook, and GPD

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch An ASUS ROG Ally Get Upgraded To 32GB Of DDR5-7500 RAM With A Risky Mod

After numberous printing related bugs this year, you’d think Microsoft would be particuarly cautious and do some additional Q&A on its latest printing-related patches, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. A newly discovered bug affecting Windows 10 and 11 seems to be renaming all printers on a system “HP M101-M106”.

At the turn of the

Source: Hot Hardware – The Latest Printer Headache Caused By A Windows Update Is A Doozy