The Nothing Chats beta app is no longer available in the Play Store, after a surprising number of security and privacy concerns have come to light. The messaging application was released by Nothing as a way to better connect Android and iPhone users, because at the moment, cross platform chats offer a somehwat limited experience.

Unfortunately,

Source: Hot Hardware – Nothing’s iMessage App For Android Is A Privacy Nightmare, Gets Yanked From Play Store

Are you nostalgic for the days of slide-up screens and hidden, physical keyboards on mobile devices? Do you deeply miss your Motorola Sidekick, beloved Blackberry, or LG Ally proto-smartphone? If you do, you’re squarely in the target market for Ayaneo’s new Slide handheld gaming PC, which is available for just $699 during crowdfunding. The

Source: Hot Hardware – Ayaneo Slide Handheld Salutes Classic Gaming With A Full Keyboard And RDNA 3 Firepower

Everyone loves an underdog, especially when the very premise is wrapped up in a paradox of sorts. Intel has been one of the largest technology companies for decades, having pioneered much of what we take for granted today with PC processors. However, Intel’s entry into the PC graphics card market has put it in a slightly unusual position against

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Arc A770 GPU Is Getting A Huge Stable Diffusion Performance Boost

Your phone number is about to get more secure, and you don’t even have to do anything to make it happen. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued new directives for cell carriers that will force them to take SIM swapping and port-out attacks seriously. Carriers will now have to use secure authentication when making changes to

Source: Hot Hardware – FCC Issues New Carrier Rules To Protect Against SIM-Swapping Scams And Attacks

Back in the old days, towering desktop PCs the size of Mount Olympus were commonplace. Fast forward to modern times, however, and advances in technology have allowed manufactures to pack increasing amounts of firepower into pint-sized PCs. Enter the mini PC movement. To that end, we’ve secured some additional savings from Geekom on its Mini

Source: Hot Hardware – HOT Deal: Geekom Mini PC With Intel Core i7 Firepower Is An Amazing 0 Off

As the dust begins to settle following a whirlwind of events at OpenAI, former CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman landed at Microsoft. Altman was fired from OpenAI on Friday by the board of directors, which set off a chain of events filled with more drama than a Hollywood blockbuster.

The decision by the board of directors seemed

Source: Hot Hardware – Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Joins Microsoft In Surprise Twist As AI Drama Unfolds

With Black Friday just a few days away, that means that Christmas is just around the corner too, and with it comes the need for gifts. If you have a techie friend who has not yet gotten into virtual reality, now may be an opportune time to introduce them to the Meta Quest 2 and a handful of Quest 2 accessories deals on Amazon that can net

Source: Hot Hardware – Meta Quest 2 Holiday Bundle With A Amazon GC Is 0 Off And More VR Gaming Deals

The mighty GPU is shaping up to be one of the most significant innovations of human technology during the last few decades. While games such as Alan Wake 2 demonstrate visual chops that can often mimic reality, there is much more at stake here. With the advent of artificial intelligence, the need for as much computing power as imaginable is

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And SK Hynix Allegedly Team Up On Major GPU Overhaul With Stacked HBM4 Memory

So you bought an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S and now friends and family members are clamoring for some local multiplayer action, is that it? You’re going to need another controller. It’s almost criminal that console makers typically only bundle in a single controller, but that’s the way it goes. Fortunately, Black Friday discounts are in

Source: Hot Hardware – This Official Xbox Controller Is 43% Off And More Black Friday Gaming Deals

SpaceX’s launch of its uncrewed Starship garnered some astounding images during the second major flight test. The spacecraft achieved a height three times higher than its previous launch before it exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

The company hoped Starship would have been able to successfully orbit Earth before landing in the Pacific Ocean.

Source: Hot Hardware – Closeup Shots Of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Launch Before It Blew Up Are Stunning

You probably don’t need an official list to tell you that “123456” is an incredibly weak password (unless you’re a CEO, apparently), or that extending it out to “12345678” or even “123456789” are nearly as anemic when it comes to account security. Nevertheless, the folks at NordPass have published an annual list of the top 200 most common

Source: Hot Hardware – Security Report Reveals The Top 200 Weak Sauce Passwords You Could Possibly Use

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Processors: Starting At $1,499 ($4,999 For 7980X) The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X (64-cores) and 7970X (32-cores) are the company’s most-powerful HEDT, many-core processors every released.   More Cache Higher-Clocks Killer Multi-Thread Performance HEDT Returns! Higher TDPs Ultra Premium Pricing…

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X & 7970X Review: Many-Core Desktop Supremacy

Gear up for the holidays with some spectacular deals on laptops from companies like Acer, Microsoft, and HP. Whether you are a gamer or someone who just wants something to browse the web and check emails, there is a deal for all.

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Not every laptop needs to be beefy enough to run Crysis. Some people just want to

Source: Hot Hardware – Best Buy Black Friday Deals Are Here With Huge Savings On Laptops As Low As 9

LinkedIn continues to be a gold mine for gaming sleuths looking to unearth unannounced video games. This latest leak comes by way of a profile of a supposed developer at Gearbox Software, that mentions Borderlands 4 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland 2. While it’s not particularly surprising to hear Gearbox is hard at work in a new installment in

Source: Hot Hardware – Borderlands 4 And Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands 2 Allegedly Confirmed In Profile Leak

We are only five days from Black Friday, and with it comes a plethora of deals on Amazon, which is trying to beat out all the brick-and-mortar stores competing for sales this year. Today, we have a handful of mini PCs that could make for a great home theater addition or home office box that will fit just about anywhere.

Leading off the

Source: Hot Hardware – Mini PC Deals Offer Big Savings On Pint-Sized Powerhouses

If you own a Nintendo Switch console, now is a great time to build up your games library. Black Friday deals are out in full force at Amazon with deep discounts on a bevy of titles, with markdowns ranging from 25% off all the way up to 75% off. And if you don’t own a Switch console, there’s a deal to be had there too, with Best Buy serving

Source: Hot Hardware – Nintendo Switch Game Deals Are Huge At Amazon, Up To 75% Off

Black Friday is just around the corner, but Amazon is looking to get into your wallets before any brick-and-mortar store does. As such, the company that has everything from A to Z is activating deals on many of those items, including laptops, tablets, headphones, and earbuds, which we are highlighting here today.

Kicking things off, we

Source: Hot Hardware – Black Friday Deals On Apple Products Offer Up To 51% Off Beats, MacBooks And More

Most of your writers up here at HotHardware are old farts, so we can scarcely imagine a Steam account without the original Half-Life. Back in the day, most of us owned boxed copies of the game, and you could put your CD-key into Steam to register it to your profile. If your existence on Steam is newer than that, don’t fret—you can add the

Source: Hot Hardware – Half Life’s Big 25th Anniversary Update Is FREE With New Maps And Enhanced Graphics

Is there anything worse than a porch pirate? Well yes (murderers, deadly diseases, loses the last leg on what would have otherwise been a lucrative parlay bet), but if it were up to us, there would be an additional circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno for these inconsiderate and opportunistic thieves. Now that the Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Source: Hot Hardware – Curb Porch Pirates With Ring Video And Security Cam Black Friday Deals Up To 65% Off

An AMD engineering sample that appeared on the Geekbench browser appears to be one of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 8000 mobile CPUs, code-named Hawk Point. The CPU model is specifically believed to be one of AMD’s top-of-the-line variants, the Ryzen 9 8940HS. If true, that would make this one of the first Geekbench 6 results featuring the new chip.

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 9 8940HS Hawk Point APU May Have Just Made A Benchmark Cameo