Rockstar Games has finally broken its silence on the “next Grand Theft Auto” game. In a message posted to X (formerly Twitter), the developer confirmed a trailer is coming for what is widely assumed to be Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment in the long-running franchise and the first major iteration since Grand Theft Auto V released

Source: Hot Hardware – The First GTA 6 Trailer Is Confirmed As Rockstar Readies A Big Reveal

You may not realize it, but you’re probably interacting with a GPT-family AI almost every day. It stands as the most popular of the large language models by far, and it is impressively-capable, with the latest version able to ace the MCAT and pass the BAR. In fact, it’s more popular than most people even realized, as creators OpenAI announced

Source: Hot Hardware – ChatGPT Skyrockets To 100M Weekly Active Users As OpenAI Unveils GPT-4 Turbo

Threat actors have gotten increasingly more creative with their methods, embedding them in devices while evading defensive blue teams along the way. The situation is akin to over-prescription of antibiotics, which could eventually lead to a superbug, but with criminal hackers devising creative and innovative ways to execute their attacks.

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Preaches Good Cloud Security Hygiene After Calendar Used By Hackers

Resident leaker @Zed__Wang on X (Twitter) leaked a photo of NVIDIA’s supposed new RTX 40 Super series branding, featuring the rumored GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER moniker. If the packaging material is legitimate, it confirms that NVIDIA will be launching a GeForce RTX 40 series SUPER refresh next year.
The photo reveals how NVIDIA’s new packaging

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Is Real If This Cheesy Packaging Leak Is Legit

Google Pixel Tablet And Charging Speaker Dock: Starting at $499 (128GB) The Google Pixel Tablet combines the portability of a thin slate PC with the functionality of a smart home hub with its included dock, and a lot of great use case options on tap for consumers. Bright And Vibrant Display Included Charging Speaker Dock Stellar Battery Life…

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Pixel Tablet Review: A Tablet And Smart Home Hub All-In-One

Before you start posting angry comments, we know—it’s not actually called the “PS5 Slim”. In fact, Sony simply refers to it as a “new look for the PS5 console.” However, it is a bit smaller than the original release, and the timing is right, so people are still calling it “PS5 Slim.” You’ll just have to accept that going forward.

The new

Source: Hot Hardware – Sony’s PS5 Slim’s Size Difference Comes Into View In First Teardown Videos

Microsoft announced a new partnership with Inworld AI to expand the tech giant’s ability to extend AI-enhanced tools to game developers. In a tweet, Inworld AI commented that generative AI provides new opportunities for game developers to leverage cutting-edge innovations to “foster limitless creativity and unparalleled immersion.”

Xbox

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Is Giving Xbox Gaming A Major Boost With AI Tools For Game Devs

Perhaps several generations from now, concerns over battery life will no longer exist as technology continues to evolve. As it stands now, however, battery life is certainly a concern for pretty much any powered device designed for mobility, and that includes smartphones like the recently introduced iPhone 15 series. And looking to the more

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Apple’s iPhone 17 Could Set The Standard For Smartphone Battery Life

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has spent an incredible 4,000 sols (Martian days) on the Red Planet since it first landed on the Martian surface in 2012. Curiosity completed its primary mission objective in 2014 and is still going strong.

Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August 5, 2012, and has remained busy ever since. At launch, the Curiosity

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Curiosity Rover Celebrates Historic Martian Milestone Of 4000 Sols On Mars

Google’s latest November Android 14 stable software update has dropped with seven welcomed fixes for Pixel devices. Read on to see what has changed and which phones are affected.

Even though there’s an expected major QPR (quarterly platform release) update in December, November’s Android 14 update comes with some nice fixes and tweaks to

Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Latest Pixel Update Fixes Display And UI Issues, Touch Bugs And More

Generally speaking, the two best times of the year to buy a TV are the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, which is still a few months out, and right now when retailers trip over themselves shoving Black Friday bargains out the door. Driving home this point, TCL is serving up some excellent deals on big screen televisions ahead of the actual

Source: Hot Hardware – TCL’s 85-Inch TV And 5.1 Soundbar Bundle For 69 Is A Steal And More Early BF Deals

Most of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 8000 series processors will be based on the company’s next-generation Zen 5 processor architecture, and that’s a big deal because by all accounts, Zen 5 is going to be a major redesign of the Zen CPU core. Earlier leaks have put Zen 5 down for a 10-15% IPC increase, but the most recent leaks seem to indicate a

Source: Hot Hardware – Ryzen 8950X Zen 5 CPU Benchmark Scores Allegedly Break Cover And They’re Really Good

If you’re dropping anything over $300 on a sweet gaming monitor like Dell had for sale recently, then there are still a few good options out there, including those from Titan Army. This is a Chinese monitor brand that’s been making waves in its home continent for its aggressive pricing on feature-filled monitors. Titan Army has now found its

Source: Hot Hardware – Titan Army’s Fast IPS Gaming Monitors Storm Amazon With Killer Specs At Great Prices

It’s almost impossible to imagine it now, but city builders were once PC gaming royalty with Maxis’ SimCity 2000 moving over 4 million copies. These days, the mantle of SimCity has almost entirely been handed off to Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines. That game just got a sequel, but unfortunately instead of the wide acclaim that publisher

Source: Hot Hardware – Cities: Skylines 2 Autopsy Reveals The Reason For Its Terrible Performance

OnePlus is mere weeks out from the launch of its first foldable, the OnePlus Open, but the company has more up its proverbial sleeve. The flagship OnePlus 12 is still expected to appear this year, and leaks are already painting a picture of a powerful Android smartphone. After learning a bit about the device’s camera, we’ve now also gotten

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Filing Reveals Impressive Battery And Charging Specs Ahead Of Launch

Washington D.C.’s Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a new initiative involving Apple AirTags to combat a rise in car thefts in some neighborhoods. Free AirTags will be distributed to residents who live in areas where car thefts are on the rise in the coming months.

It is not often that a headline involving Apple’s AirTags is positive. Apple’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Washington D.C.’s Police Force Is Giving Away Hundreds Of Apple AirTag Trackers

ASUS has announced a new ChromeOS tablet with detachable keyboard—called the CM30—that looks to target the rugged environs of schools, home, and frontline workplaces. This new tablet also promises greater performance, endurance, and sustainability that should bring the fight to the likes of the excellent Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3.

Taiwan-based

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Unveils Durable 2-In-1 Chromebook CM30 Detachable With 12-Hour Battery Life

The trend in modern hybrid microarchitecture design is to pair high performance cores for heavy lifting, with lower power cores for lighter duty workloads. Going this route allows chip makers and designers to balance performance with power efficiency, and it’s worked well in various ARM-based designs as well as Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor

Source: Hot Hardware – MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 Goes All-In With Big Cores For Next-Gen Android Phones

Google and Epic Games head to court this week in a battle over whether Google’s digital payment processing system in its Play Store has been illegally increasing prices for consumers and developers. The epic battle begins with Google still embroiled in a US antitrust trial.

Last week, Google posted an open letter addressing its legal issues

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Faces Epic Legal Battle With Fortnite Creator Over App Store Antitrust Allegations

There’s nothing more satisfying than ingesting tiny morsels of rumors before a new graphics card release. Sure, games such as Alan Wake 2 have hype aplenty, but you’ll need some beefy hardware to run it. Wild speculations have been recently piling up concerning NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Super refresh. The most tasty of these tidbits comes from

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s GeForce 40 Series Super GPUs Could Debut At CES 2024