As you’ll know if you’ve been reading our deals posts recently, this Friday is Black Friday. The infamous day of deals heralds the beginning of the holiday shopping season. If you have kids, then you probably already know what they want as gifts, and there’s a pretty good chance it’s video games.

Actually, that would be a pretty darn decent

Source: Hot Hardware – Study Reveals What Kids Want Most For The Holidays And You Won’t Be Surprised

Black Friday might not be here yet, but there are a plethora of good CPU deals already going on. Several of AMD and Intel’s most popular chips, like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Core i5-13600KF are discounted significantly at the moment, with prices dropping by as much as 20%. Cooler prices have also dropped quite a bit, so we’ve taken the liberty

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel And AMD CPU Prices At Amazon Are Falling In Early Black Friday Deals

Meteor Lake, the first-generation “Core Ultra” processors, will be Intel’s first “disaggregated” or chiplet-based CPUs. The launch of these important chips is less than a month away, and Intel is continuing to drip-feed details to the press and the public. The latest news comes from a video posted to the “Intel Technology” YouTube channel,

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Details Meteor Lake GPU Clock, Core And Architecture Advancements

The Russian espionage machine is both vast and prolific, as shown by a recent Russian code outbreak making its way into U.S. government systems. With the war in Ukraine in full swing, this behemoth of a program is not only throwing tools and resources at Ukraine, but is also driving its efforts into other countries, such as the United States.

Source: Hot Hardware – Russia’s Sinister LitterDrifter Malware That Spies On Ukraine Worms Into The US

Tim Sweeney, Epic Games CEO, described Google as “crooked” during his testimony in the anti-trust trial currently underway in San Fransisco, CA. The trial is a result of Epic attempting to break free from having to pay Google a 15-30% commission on in-app transactions, which Epic alleges is illegal price gouging.

Time Sweeney spoke about

Source: Hot Hardware – Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Slams Google As A Crooked Adversary In Antitrust Trial

Mediatek is aiming for the premium-oriented midrange smartphone market with the release of the Dimensity 8300 chipset. This new chip uses TSMC’s 2nd generation 4nm process and Arm’s latest v9 CPU architecture. It’s an eight core CPU that packs 4 Arm Cortex-A715 cores along with 4 Cortex-A510 cores. There is also an Arm Mali-G615 GPU onboard.

With

Source: Hot Hardware – MediaTek Dimensity 8300 Flexes Generative AI Muscle To Arm Wrestle Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

It was only last week when we reported that an overclocked Threadripper Pro 7995WX broke the world record for Cinebench R23, but as of the time of this writing, the record has been broken five more times by overclockers using the same chip. The initial world record was set with air cooling, so it was expected that water cooling and liquid

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch AMD’s 96-Core Threadripper 7995WX Pro Hit 6GHz In Wild Race For Top Cinebench Score

TeamGroup’s growing family of high-speed solid state drives (SSDs) just got a bit bigger today with the launch of four new models, including the T-Force G70 Pro, T-Force G70, T-Force G50 Pro, and T-Force G50. All four drive families share PCI Express 4.0 DNA and use an Innogrit controller. What separates them, however, are top speeds and certain

Source: Hot Hardware – TeamGroup Launches G70 And G50 SSDs To Amp Your Gaming PC With Blazing-Fast Storage

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a bedazzling image of the center of the Milky Way with an unprecedented infrared-light view. The image contains a portion of the center of our galaxy that includes never-before-seen features that astronomers have yet to be able to explain.

The “chaotic region” at the “heart of Milky Way”

Source: Hot Hardware – JWST Captures Milky Way’s Chaotic Heart In Unprecedented Detail Leaving NASA Stunned

Have you seen how much space some AAA games take up these days? There are several that approach and even exceed 100GB install sizes (Starfield takes up around 140GB), and that’s before any DLC and/or mods—ARK: Survival Evolved, for example, can tip the storage scale at 400GB. Fortunately, Black Friday deals on storage have arrived with some

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD Is Off And Other Banging Black Friday SSD Deals

The ebbs and flow of time often dictate one harsh reality, and that’s survival of the fittest. The GPU ecosystem is no different than your average jungle, with the strongest climbing its way to the top regardless of a new competitor. With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX Super refresh rumored to be coming soon, it’s likely to wipe out at least two existing

Source: Hot Hardware – At Least One GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU May Stick Around After NVIDIA’s Super Refresh

It may be cold outside, but Best Buy has some super-hot deals on DJI drones that will heat things up. Whether someone is a beginner or a seasoned flyer, there is a deal for all.

DJI Air 2S Fly More Combo
The DJI Air 2S makes for a great addition to any drone arsenal. The drone features a 1-inch CMOS sensor, powerful autonomous functions,

Source: Hot Hardware – Best Buy’s Black Friday Deals On DJI Drones Are So Good They’re Flying Off The Shelf

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