If you’re using a Chrome browser—and chances are high that you are, simply based on Chrome’s dominant market share—stop what you’re doing and initiate an update to the latest version. Yes, you should be receiving Chrome updates on an automatic basis, but the newest build patches a bunch of alarming security vulnerabilities, including one that

Source: Hot Hardware – Hackers Are Exploiting A Security Flaw Affecting Billions Of Chrome Users, Patch ASAP

The next product in Ayaneo’s Remake Collection has arrived. The Retro Mini PC AM01 is technically Ayaneo’s first mini PC, although one could argue that the company’s many x86-based handheld gaming systems also qualify. Still, this is the company’s first machine without an attached screen or gaming controls, and you can snag it right now for

Source: Hot Hardware – Ayaneo’s Macintosh Style Retro Mini PC AM01 Is Here, Hands-On

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, yet there are still great deals you can take advantage of to build a get entry level PC for just around $600. Though this PC build guide doesn’t make use of the latest hardware, it certainly will offer great performance for a very economical price point. Additionally, it offers an attractive

Source: Hot Hardware – Build A Sweet 1080p Gaming Rig For 0 With These Holiday PC Parts Deals

Ikea has launched a new smart home product family called the Vallhorn, Parasoll, and Badring, which are “designed to give customers a greater sense of control and comfort, allowing them to stay connected to their homes, even when they are away.” Thankfully, these smart home products are inexpensive and don’t require the ever-fun Ikea assembly,

Source: Hot Hardware – IKEA Releases 3 Ultra-Affordable Smart Home Sensors, No Assembly Required

Remember that Alienware M18 R1 laptop that we made some fuss about awhile back? We reviewed the original NVIDIA-powered version, but there’s a new AMD Advantage model that uniquely comes with a mobile variant of Navi 31 called the Radeon RX 7900M. Sadly, reviewers and early adopters have complained of black screens, stuttering games, and even

Source: Hot Hardware – Dell Offers Work-Around For Alienware M18 Gaming Laptop Display Issue With RX 7900M

A security vulnerability found in ownCloud, a provider of open-source software solutions for organizations to host and sync files, is now being actively exploited by threat actors. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-49103, was initially disclosed by ownCloud on November 21, 2023 whereupon it was assessed as being a critical risk, earning it a CVSS

Source: Hot Hardware – Actively Exploited ownCloud Flaw Is So Bad It Earned A Max 10 Security Alert

On paper, the Pimax Crystal is one of the best VR headsets currently available on the market, boasting rather impressive displays and overall capabilities. However, all of that comes at a cost and performance premium that many people may not quite be able to afford. Despite this, if you are looking for a solid VR headset and can handle not…

Source: Hot Hardware – Pimax Crystal VR Headset Review: High Res, High-End VR In Need Of Polish

Saving your files in the cloud affords a number of benefits, not least among them reliability. Why worry about hard drive failures when Google can keep copies of your files on multiple servers? That’s all well and good in theory, but Google Drive has encountered a problem. In recent days, Drive users have reported that months or even years

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Drive Sync Bug Loses Months Of User Files As Google Investigates

Apple has been known to bring industry-changing products to market, such as the original iPod and iPhone. When it introduced the Apple Card in 2019, it made complete sense considering the retail eco-system that surrounds it. A further push into a vast services portfolio gave consumers another reason to consider sticking to the walled garden

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Apple Is Reportedly Kicking Credit Card Partner Goldman Sachs To The Curb

NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services officially announced an expansion of their existing partnership in supercomputing infrastructure, and services and software for generative AI at this year’s AWS re:Invent. According to the two companies this collaboration will “bring together the best of NVIDIA and AWS technologies that are ideal for training

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon And NVIDIA Team Up To Build The First Cloud AI Supercomputer With Grace Hopper

Don’t kick yourself if you missed out on the barrage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, because let’s face it, singular day events are a mirage. We’re in the middle of an entire holiday season of sales. To prove it, one of the best gaming desktop PC deals around is a suddenly affordable MSI machine that’s the cheapest we’ve ever seen

Source: Hot Hardware – Score An MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming PC For Just 9 With These Killer Desktop Deals

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured an awe-inspiring image of a Herbig-Haro object in the northern constellation of Perseus. Herbig-Haro objects are luminous patches of nebulosity associated with protostars and form when stellar winds or hot gas ejected by a newborn star collide with the gas and dust around it at high speeds.

Herbig-Haro

Source: Hot Hardware – JWST Spots A Starry Space Object In Amazing Detail And It’s Jaw-Dropping

Ugly holiday sweaters have become a clothing trend over the past decade, and Microsoft has been getting into the oddball holiday spirit for the last several years with its own funky line of themed-attired. Its past ugly sweater offerings have included designs based on the Windows logo, MS Paint, Clippy, Minesweeper, and Windows XP. For this

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft’s Ugly Windows XP Sweater Is Selling Out Fast, Here Are Some Alternatives

In AMD’s mobile processor naming scheme, the first digit tells you what year the chip came out, and the third digit tells you what CPU core IP it implements. The Ryzen 7040 series came out this year and had Zen 4 CPU cores, so it follows that the Ryzen 8040 series will come out next year with, yes, Zen 4 CPU cores. That expectation has been

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8000 Zen 4 Hawk Point APU Benchmark Sighting Teases Specs And Performance

Whether it’s a skin in League of Legends, keys for Counter-Strike lockboxes, or some energy to continue playing Candy Crush, it’s extremely likely that you’ve bought a microtransaction at least once. Imagine if you paid out for some in-game currency and the game operator shut down the title a couple of months or even weeks later? You’d expect

Source: Hot Hardware – Take-Two Lawsuit Drives To Dunk On NBA 2K Publisher Over Microtransaction Theft

Geekom has unveiled a new highly compact Mini-PC sporting AMD’s latest high-performance Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs. The system measures just 112.4mm in width and length, and 37mm in height, and comes with a 40GBps USB port and SD card reader, making it a highly capable mini-PC suitable for mainstream consumers and even content creators. The new

Source: Hot Hardware – Geekom’s Mini PC Powered By AMD Phoenix Breaks Cover With A Slick Metal Design

When Albert Einstein predicted through special relativity that the speed of light was constant, he ignored one crucial factor. The speed of AI development seems to be the only thing going faster than the speed of light itself, as of late. This law of constant motion results in a new reality that GPUs, which are very capable AI accelerators

Source: Hot Hardware – China Circumvents GPU Ban, Now Stripping GeForce RTX 3090 Cards As AI Race Heats Up

The developer of Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore, Gellyberry Studios, has been hit by a ransomware attack, leading to the loss of 17,000 player accounts, the studio announced on their Discord server. The game is described as “a hardcore old-school MMORPG for players not afraid of challenge, risk, and adventure. Band together with fellow players and

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Takes Down MMORPG On Steam Destroying Player Accounts

Sports Illustrated has responded to claims that it published articles written by AI. The iconic sports publication places the blame at the feet of the contractor and has since removed the alleged content.

The illustrious sports magazine came under fire following an article by Futurism suggesting that at least one of its writers was not

Source: Hot Hardware – Sports Illustrated Responds To Report It Published Articles By Fake AI Writers

In less than 72 hours from now, Google will start deleting Google accounts that have been deemed inactive. If you want to save your content, there are some things you can do to ensure that your account and associated content is not caught in the snare of the accounts purge. However, the clock is ticking, so you best jump straight to it after

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Will Begin Purging Gmail And Photos Accounts In 3 Days, How To Take Action