With its “Alder Lake” 12th-generation Core CPUs, Intel introduced the concept of the “P-series” processors. These 28W chips sit between the ultra-low-voltage “U” CPUs and the full-power mobile “H” units. Naturally, we’d expect its upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs to continue with this sort of segmentation, but it looks like things may have become

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel May Add To Meteor Lake-H CPU Model Confusion With Both 28W And 45W SKUS

Software vulnerabilities come and go, but vulnerabilities found in hardware are significantly harder to deal with and lead to more problems, such as with Hertzbleed and that family of security issues that sprung up from simple clock management techniques. Now, researchers have found a new problem with AMD EPYC processors that allows an attacker

Source: Hot Hardware – EPYC CacheWarp CPU Exploit Gives Hackers Root Access To Virtual Machines, Patch Now

NVIDIA will be releasing an update to TensorRT-LLM for AI inferencing, which will allow desktops and laptops running RTX GPUs with at least 8GB of VRAM to run the open-source software. This update will introduce support to more large language models. However, only users who are currently using Windows 11 will be able to take advantage of this

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s TensorRT AI Model Now Runs On All GeForce RTX 30 And 40 GPUs With 8GB+ Of RAM

WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication platforms in the world, and it reached that lofty position before it even had a backup solution. Beginning in 2015, the Facebook-owned app added support for Google Drive backup and restore. Google and WhatsApp inked a deal that ensured those backups would not count against the Drive storage

Source: Hot Hardware – WhatsApp Chats Backed Up To Google Drive Will Soon Count Towards Your Storage Cap

WP Fastest Cache, a WordPress plugin currently in use by over 1 million users that assists in more efficiently delivering their websites, is addressing a security issue with its 1.2.2 release. This update addresses an SQL injection vulnerability found during an internal review by the WPScan team. The vulnerability made it possible for an unauthenticated

Source: Hot Hardware – Security Audit Reveals Major Vulnerability In A Popular WordPress Plugin, Update ASAP

A recently released beta of visionOS for the Vision Pro operating system includes tutorial videos showcasing how a user interacts with visionOS by utilizing eye and hand movements. One onboarding video shared on X called “Input Training” shows how someone wearing a set of Apple’s Vision Pro glasses can use hand gestures to open a selected

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Vision Pro Video In VisionOS Beta Details Slick Eye And Hand Controls

If you’ve got a hankering for desktop and workstation processors with many cores that rip through compute workloads, then you should definitely join us live this Friday, 11/17/23 at 1PM ET for our Two And A Half Geeks livestream. Joining us this week is special guest Corporate VP and General Manager, Client Channel Business at AMD, David McAfee,

Source: Hot Hardware – Join Us For A Threadripper 7000 HEDT Livestream With AMD’s David McAfee

The mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) isn’t dead even as solid state drives (SSDs) steal the limelight. That’s because pricing for bulk storage still favors HDDs. But while the storage medium is far from dead, HDDs do give up the ghost, some more often than others. Which ones are the most reliable? That’s a tricky question, and it’s also where

Source: Hot Hardware – Storage Reliability Report Yields Surprising Results As Summer Temps Hit A Record High

Astronomers were recently amazed to find an aurora-like display some 40,000 kilometers above a sunspot. Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) detailed radio observations of the event that share characteristics with the auroral radio emissions typically only seen in planetary

Source: Hot Hardware – Scientists Discover A Stunning Extraordinary Aurora Emission On The Sun

We’re still waiting for solid state drives (SSDs) built that take advantage of the PCI Express 5.0 bus to bombard the market, but so far there have been just a small handful of releases. They are coming, though. One of the challenges they bring with them is how to manage thermals. PNY’s answer? Slap on a heatsink with dual cooling fans, as

Source: Hot Hardware – PNY’s New PCIe 5.0 SSDs Are So Fast They Come With Two Cooling Fans

Although Intel and Argonne National Laboratory declared the Aurora supercomputer to be finally complete earlier this year, apparently it’s not fully up and running just yet. It’s only running with half of its 21,248 Xeon Max Sapphire Rapids CPUs and 63,744 Ponte Vecchio GPUs, which allowed it to snag second place in Top500’s list of fastest

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Powered Aurora Supercomputer Is Gunning For AMD Frontier But Can’t Catch It Yet

Today’s PC-based gaming handhelds are incredibly powerful. Systems like the OneXFly offer eight Zen 4 CPU cores and up to 64GB of fast LPDDR5X memory—more than enough horsepower for even tasks like video editing. After all, we used to do that stuff on old Core 2 Duo systems. However, making use of the full potential of these SoCs means plugging

Source: Hot Hardware – OneXGPU Dock Unveiled: A Slick eGPU With SSD Storage, RGB And OCuLink Support

We tested Intel’s Application Performance Optimizer last week and came away with a tentatively-positive opinion. The technology helps games leverage the hybrid architecture of Intel’s CPUs more effectively, improving performance when CPU-limited, and it seems to really work. However, it’s currently limited to the company’s newest 14th-generation

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Confirms Its Game-Boosting APO Tech Is Not Coming To 13th And 12th Gen CPUs

Bill Gates made a surprise appearance on the Artificial Intelligence subreddit in order to share his thoughts on the future of AI and how it will impact computing. Gates is bullish on AI, believing it will entrench itself into various aspects of people’s daily lives. Personal assistants, healthcare, education and productivity will all be transformed

Source: Hot Hardware – Bill Gates On AI: It Will Change How You Use Computers, And Everything Else He Said

Black Friday is just around the corner, but to try and beat out some of the brick-and-mortar stores, Amazon has deals going live early that may even beat out other shops. This includes a whole slew of Amazon Fire TVs, which are marked down more than normal to save you a buck and up your home theater game.

Leading us off is our strongest

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Fire TV Deals Light Up Early For Big Black Friday Savings Up To 38% Off

Google Pixel Watch 2: Starting at $349.99 The Google Watch 2 builds on the success of the original with better performance, battery life, and fitness tracking, but its starting price is still relatively high. Bright, sharp display A solid day of battery life Extremely comfortable on the wrist Stylish design Uses proprietary band connector…

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Pixel Watch 2 Review: An Impressive Sequel

Vice President for Partnerships at Google James Kolotouros testified during the Epic versus Google antitrust trial that the search giant agreed to pay $8 billion over four years to Samsung Electronics Company to make its search engine, voice assistant, and Play Store the default on Galaxy devices. Kolotouros testified Google constructed plans

Source: Hot Hardware – Epic Details Google’s B Deal To Make Its Apps Default On Samsung Galaxy Devices

NVIDIA’s AI computing platform got a big upgrade with the introduction of the NVIDIA HGX H200, which is based on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture. It features the NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU that can make quick work of large amounts of data. This is crucial for workloads that require high performance computing, along with generative AI tasks.

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Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s HGX H200 GPU With HBMe3 Is An AI Beast For The Data Center

Talk about a tasty giveaway! Microsoft’s Xbox team is collaborating with Warner Bros. Pictures on a special Xbox Series X console that looks like a Willy Wonka chocolate bar. The lucky winner will also receive the world’s first official edible Xbox controller made of chocolate, which of course will don a signature gold wrapper, plus some other

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Is Giving Away A Deliciously-Themed Wonka Console With An Edible Controller

Samsung has just initiated a pretty aggressive Android 14 update schedule for not only its latest flagships, but also to some surprising models in its lineup. Read on to find out if the well-received Android 14 will be coming to your device.

The stable version of Samsung’s One Ui 6.0 (based on Android 14) is coming sooner than you think

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Reveals When These 35 Galaxy Devices Will Update To Android 14