Intel’s next new processors will be the Meteor Lake chips coming to laptops and small-form-factor desktops by the end of the year and through the beginning of next year. After that, we’ll see Arrow Lake likely late next year, which is expected to replace both Meteor Lake in laptops as well as the Raptor Lake Refresh platform in desktops.

Intel’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Lunar Lake Prototype 8-Core CPU Looks Strong In Confusing Benchmark Cameo

A lot is happening in the world of entry-level GPUs right now. Intel is reportedly finally launching its Arc A580 graphics card despite announcing the model a year ago. The Arc A580 is expected to target RTX 3050 performance levels. Meanwhile, NVIDIA appears to be releasing a competitor to the Arc 580 in the form of an even less powerful RTX

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA May Counter Intel’s Arc A580 GPU With A Cut Down GeForce RTX 3050 6GB SKU

Historically, the socketed desktop AMD Ryzen processors have come in two basic forms: your standard CPUs that typically didn’t have graphics until the most recent Ryzen generation, and then your “APUs”, or processors with powerful graphics built-in. The Ryzen APUs from the 3000 and 5000 series were also monolithic, where the standard Ryzen

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD AGESA Code Hints At Ryzen 7000G Phoenix APUs Rising On The Desktop

The drama surrounding Google’s antitrust suit continues to escalate as unsealed testimony reveals Apple almost decided to buy Bing to compete with Google in the lucrative search engine market. The unsealed testimony came from Apple Senior Vice President John Giannandrea.

Apple lawyers had attempted to negate the need for Giannandrea to

Source: Hot Hardware – Wild Testimony Reveals Apple Mulled Buying Bing To Challenge Google

“It’s getting hot in here, so patch all of your phones” is not the line but is the case for iPhone 15, which was found to have an overheating problem. Users were finding that their phones would become nearly too hot to touch while charging or prolonged use. Since then, Apple has released a patch, which users should update to now, in an effort

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Releases iOS 17.0.3 Salve For iPhone 15’s Most Burning Issue

Axiom Space has partnered with an Italian luxury fashion house to design NASA’s lunar spacesuits for the Artemis III mission, and the devil is in the details. Axiom Space announced yesterday that it has partnered with none other than Prada to design the lunar spacesuits.

Artemis III is planned for 2025 and will place humans back on the

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Artemis 3 Astronauts Will Blast Off In Style With Spacesuits Designed By Prada

For such a fast gaming monitor, ASUS sure is taking its sweet time releasing its ROG Swift Pro PG248QP, which it unveiled at CES earlier this year. Now nine months later, ASUS has anointed the fastest gaming monitor it’s ever built with a product page, bringing the 540Hz display one step closer to an eventual launch. When will it release,

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Details Its Blistering-Fast 540Hz ROG Swift Pro PG248QP Monitor For Pro Gamers

If you own an Intel Arc graphics card, congratulations, you’re about to receive a huge performance boost in a whole bunch of games. All you have to do is apply the latest Arc GPU driver, version 31.0.101.4885. According to the release notes, double-digit performance gains are there for the taking, culminating in over a 2X performance jump.

The

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc GPU Driver Update Promises Massive FPS Gains In DX11/12 Games Up To 119%

EKWB has announced a new ultra premium case known as the Quantum Torson A60 that costs a whopping $2,600. To justify that price, the case is made entirely out of CnC-milled aluminum and is designed specifically for ultra-high-end water cooling setups. The A60 will come in black and silver flavors — with slight design alterations for each color

Source: Hot Hardware – EK Unveils A ,600 Limited Edition PC Case With Built-In Liquid Cooling

Samsung released its 2023 foldables just a couple of months ago, but already there’s a new raft of Samsung hardware. The Korean consumer electronics giant has revealed the Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE, and the Galaxy Buds FE. These mid-range devices undercut the mainline S-series on price, but you can still expect most of the same features.

In

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Unveils Galaxy S23 FE With Upgrade Path To Android 17, New Buds And Tablet Too

While Intel’s Arc Alchemist series is almost exclusively known for the Arc A750 and Arc A770, which are midrange gaming GPUs, there are several other members of the family, and now there’s another one you can get at retail: the Arc A310. The A310 technically launched late last year, right alongside the A750, but it was an OEM-only graphics

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc A310 GPU Makes Its US Debut And Is Super Affordable, Should You Buy It?

One of the greatest games of 2010, Red Dead Redemption was stuck on the 7th-generation game consoles until very recently, when the game was re-released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 consoles. The release was controversial for several reasons including its high price, but the biggest was likely that it has almost no improvements

Source: Hot Hardware – Red Dead Redemption Port Finally Gets A 60 FPS Toggle For This Game Console

Elon Musk went live to a massive audience as he tested X’s video game livestream capabilities. The X/Twitter CEO faced technical difficulties while playing Diablo IV’s most difficult Tier 100 Nightmare dungeon.

Musk took to X with a burner account, @cyb3rgam3r420, to test the waters with X’s streaming service for about an hour. He even

Source: Hot Hardware – Musk Tests Livestreaming Game Feature On X With Diablo IV As Millions Tune In

Any way you slice it, Starfield has been a big success for Bethesda. The company has announced that it reached over ten million players, the biggest-ever launch for a Bethesda game, and it peaked at just over one million concurrent players on Steam around its launch. Even if as many as half of those players are on Microsoft’s Game Pass service,

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield Steals Away Fallout 76’s Most Notorious Achievement For Bethesda Games

If Marvin the Martian makes it onto your computer and does privilege escalation to take it over, we might now know just how they did it. A new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed Looney Tunables. that can bump basic users to root was discovered, affecting a plethora of Linux installations.

Glibc is the GNU C Library project,

Source: Hot Hardware – Looney Tunables Exploit Gives Hackers Root Access To Linux, That’s All Folks

Google officially announced the newest additions to its Pixel lineup with the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones, Pixel Buds Pro, and Pixel Watch 2 during its Made by Google event today.

Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones
Google’s Pixel smartphones have been heralded for their top-notch cameras and accompanying editing software, and the new Pixel

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Pixel 8 And Pixel 8 Pro Launch With Tensor G3 And Sweet Preorder Bonuses

Alienware Aurora R16 Gaming Desktop PC (Starts at $1,299, as tested $1,949) Alienware’s latest Aurora R16 desktop has a new look, the latest PC gaming technology, and cooling that’s both quiet and efficient.  Good performance for the price Very quiet under load Plenty of external connectivity High-performance liquid cooling  Legend…

Source: Hot Hardware – Alienware Aurora R16 Gaming Desktop Review: A Civil Redesign

What do you do if you’re coming off a $7.97 billion quarter and are forecasting next quarter’s revenue to be $8.2 billion? Well if you’re Netflix, apparently you raise prices (again) for your streaming service. Unfortunately, the cost of cutting the cord and relying on streaming services is becoming more expensive, especially if you’re juggling

Source: Hot Hardware – Sorry Cord Cutters, Your Netflix Streaming Bill Is About To Increase Yet Again

SteelSeries officially unveils its latest entry into the world of gaming and streaming with its Alias and Alias Pro microphones. Both mics come with a 1-inch premium capsule that it says is three times bigger than competitors.

The gaming and content creation world has been receiving a lot of attention from companies, and SteelSeries is

Source: Hot Hardware – SteelSeries Goes Bananas With Its Expansion Into Gaming Microphones

Intel’s share price is up in after market hours following the announcement of its plans to spin off its Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) into a standalone business, followed by an eventual IPO. The chip maker says the move will give the group the autonomy and flexibility it needs for faster growth and to ultimately be more competitive in

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Spins Off Programmable Chip Business With FPGA Market Poised For Explosive Growth