Ransomware has become one of the most prevalent means by which threat actors generate revenue, creating a billion-dollar underground industry. Given this financial reality, ransomware gangs are working constantly to outsmart the authorities trying to stop them, though that has not seemed to work. Now, the Biden administration is moving to

Source: Hot Hardware – US Spearheads Alliance With 40 Countries To Never Pay Ransomware Gangs Again

If you read that headline and thought, “why would I want my gaming PC to be a showpiece?”, this new PC case might not be for you. However, most DIY PCs these days are gaming PCs, and gaming PCs tend to be slick or showy and harness powerful hardware. In addition, since Moore’s Law has slowed, powerful hardware is literally powerful—as in hot

Source: Hot Hardware – Adata’s XPG Invader X Case Is Here To Turn Your Gaming PC Into A Showpiece

Customizing and modifying your smartphone can be fun, but it can also leave you open to security threats. Samsung hopes to ameliorate that risk, however, with a new suite of optional features in its One UI 6 Android skin. A feature, known as Auto Blocker, will lock down your phone to lessen the risk of malware and hacking with the flick of

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Beefs Up Galaxy Device Security With One UI 6 Auto Blocker Tool

Performance is one of the most important considerations for many people buying or building a desktop PC. Faster CPUs and GPUs can hit higher framerates with better image quality settings, a speedy SSD can launch apps quicker, and more memory can keep a system humming along while multi-tasking with nary a hiccup. But high performance PC hardware

Source: Hot Hardware – A Guide To Building A Power-Efficient Gaming PC For Under 00

AI processing is a super heavy computing task that requires tens of thousands of dollars of graphics cards, right? Well, no, actually. AI tools come in all kinds of forms and sizes, and there are plenty that can run in real-time on a phone SoC. One of the most popular client applications of generative AI is local image generation, frequently

Source: Hot Hardware – This Clever Trick Turns A AMD Ryzen APU Into A 16GB AI Accelerator

Anyone who wants to use a Nintendo Switch to watch their favorite streamer on Twitch will want to grab the app before it disappears from the Nintendo eShop. The streaming service has reported that it will be ending its support for the Twitch app on the Switch early next year.

Twitch is still the number one platform for watching content

Source: Hot Hardware – Twitch Is Getting Ready To Kick The Nintendo Switch To The Curb

Apple has given its ‘Revolutionary’ Touch Bar its walking papers. The iconic Touch Bar debuted to much hype on the 13-inch MacBook Pro during the company’s 25th anniversary of Apple’s first notebook.

During Apple’s Scary Fast event on Monday, the company unveiled its new M3 lineup of chips. It then announced the release of 14 and 16-inch

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Sticks A Fork In MacBook Pro’s ‘Revolutionary’ Touch Bar

Back in the old days, solid state drive (SSD) storage was mostly relegated to the PC platform. That changed with the introduction of the PlayStation 5 (and new PS5 Slim) and Xbox Series X, both of which shed spinning platters in favor of NAND flash memory, and gamers are better off for it. So it’s no surprise that Crucial is pitching its new

Source: Hot Hardware – Crucial Unveils T500 SSD With Blistering Speeds And PS5 Gamers Can Come To Play

The OnePlus 12 will come with a newfangled Sony LYTIA image sensor that’s expected to move the needle beyond the already fantastic camera on the OnePlus 11. Do the Pixel 8 Pro or Galaxy S23 Ultra have anything to worry about?

Last year’s OnePlus 11 brought the company back into the flagship game with plenty of power, efficiency, and class-leading

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Breaks Ground As First Phone To Use Sony’s LYTIA Camera Sensor

We might be in the midst of a lingering PC sales slump but you wouldn’t necessarily know it by looking at AMD’s latest earnings report. AMD posted financial results for its third quarter of 2023, which reflected a 4% year-over-year and 8% quarterly gain in revenue to $5.8 billion. This pushed its profit to $299 million for the quarter, which

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Rides Skyrocketing Ryzen 7000 Sales And Record EPYC Orders To Beat Earnings Estimates

You ever Googled yourself? No, it’s not an improper question—we’re talking about the actual process of putting your own name into Google and seeing what comes up. You might be surprised. Shady websites charge fees to list huge databases of personal information, matching names with addresses and phone numbers that may no longer be accurate

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s How To Make Google Scrub Your Personal Data From Search Results

Over the past few weeks, Pixel owners have encountered an issue that “soft bricks” their devices, locking them out of their apps, media, and other content akin to ransomware attack. However, this issue is not from a threat actor but rather from a bug in Android 14, which has been found to be related to having multiple profiles on a Pixel device.

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Confirms An Android 14 Bug Is Wreaking Havoc On Pixel Devices, Fix Incoming

Nintendo is ripe for a new piece of hardware, which is always a momentous event for game console purveyors. As a result, any sort of leak, rumor, or filing concerning new hardware by Nintendo is noteworthy, even when it doesn’t seem like a device that the company might actually bring to market.

What we have here is a patent filed by Nintendo

Source: Hot Hardware – Nintendo Patents A Detachable Dual-Screen Gaming Device; Maybe The Next Switch?

While it’s normal for desktop and mobile CPUs to differ somewhat, you don’t normally expect to see the mobile version of a chip support fewer instructions. According to a Linux kernel commit spotted by Linux enthusiast InstLatX86 though, that’s exactly what we’re going to see with Intel’s next-generation Arrow Lake-S (the desktop chips) and

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arrow Lake Doc Reveals Different Instruction Sets For Desktop And Laptop CPUs

AMD drivers come with quite a few built-in features, but many of them couldn’t be used at the same time until AMD released HYPR-RX last month. Now, HYPR-RX is coming to the ROG Ally with the device’s latest update, and it seems like a match made in heaven for this driver feature and ASUS’s high-end gaming handheld.

While the ROG Ally is

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Ally Update Adds AMD HYPR-RX, 900p Support And More To The Gaming Handheld

Sony announced its PlayStation Explore wireless earbuds, PlayStation Elite wireless headset, PlayStation Link USB adapter, and its highly anticipated PlayStation Portal remote player. All the new devices will be launched in time for the upcoming Christmas shopping season.

While Microsoft may have acquired Activision/Blizzard/King, Sony

Source: Hot Hardware – Sony Reveals Premium Wireless Earbuds For Gamers, PlayStation Link Release Date

One of the best upgrades you can do to your PC is undoubtedly adding a faster storage or system drive. We’d surmise that the first time users tried a fast SSD (NVMe or even SATA), they immediately could tell the difference from their slower spinning hard drive. While the internal storage train has brought us to incredible PCIe Gen 5 speeds

Source: Hot Hardware – ADATA Is The First To Release A USB4 External SSD And It’s Crazy Fast

The PC is considered one of the best platforms for playing your favorite games, and for good reason. Flexible hardware choice, filled with individual input on the part of the gamer. Want to fine tune your settings for better performance? You got it! You can increase your visual eye candy until you’re satisfied, if your hardware can handle

Source: Hot Hardware – Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Will Have A Mind-Boggling 500 Graphics Settings

Although AMD hasn’t said a single word on Ryzen 8000, we’re already getting more details on the first device confirmed to use a processor from the upcoming series: Minisforum’s 3-in-1 gaming tablet. The initial press release for the V3 focused primarily on the hardware (especially its Ryzen 8000 “Hawk Point” APU) but not so much on how it

Source: Hot Hardware – Minisforum Teases An AMD Hawk Point 3-In-1 Windows Tablet With A 165Hz Display

Don’t show this to your kids—Google Search and Lens can now solve advanced trigonometry, calculus, geometry, physics, and other science problems. Thanks to improved Search smarts, solving and visualizing challenging formulas or concepts are merely a click away.

Mountain View just made its Search and Lens capabilities more potent with a

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Smarty Pants AI Search Can Now Solve Your Trig, Calc And Geometry Problems