If you have Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update on your PC, you may have to say adiós to your Wi-Fi connectivity. Several educational institutes report that Microsoft’s latest December update KB5033375 is breaking Wi-Fi support on some student laptops. Microsoft has not acknowledged the issue yet, but it has become a widespread in a very

Source: Hot Hardware – Facepalm: Microsoft’s Mandatory Windows Update Is Breaking Wi-Fi On Some PCs

Intel often disseminates slide decks to tech journalists like us, which are packed with information about its upcoming products, but presentations to its partners can often be much more interesting. It appears Intel held one such gathering on Monday in Tokyo for its Japanese partners, outlining its “AI Everywhere” marketing push and its upcoming

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Roadmap Leak Reveals When To Expect Next-Gen Arc Battlemage Discrete GPUs

In the threat intelligence and cybersecurity space, an interesting development has unfolded over the past few days regarding BlackCat or ALPHV, the group behind the Reddit security breach and the more recent 23AndMe data breach. It initially appeared as though the FBI had seized the group’s website, though BlackCat has “unseized” its website,

Source: Hot Hardware – FBI Security Advisory Reveals Blackcat Ransomware Gang Clawed 0M From Victims

Modern computing has brought with it tremendous advances in both performance and overall usability. As hardware and software become more closely integrated, services such as those offered by the cloud have become increasingly commonplace. Apple is perhaps one of the best examples of channeling of this vision with its tightly controlled eco-system,

Source: Hot Hardware – How An Email To Apple CEO Tim Cook Brought A Bricked MacBook Back From The Dead

Could you use a new gaming laptop? Well, you can sit back and hope the big guy in the red suit brings you what you want for Christmas, but that’s a tall ask. The other option is to take matters into your own hands and score a sweet deal on one of several marked-down systems at Best Buy. Some of the discounts are rather significant, too.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Check Out These Ho-Ho-HOT Gaming Laptop Deals Up To 0 Off Alienware, Lenovo And More

HHKB Studio: MSRP – Starting at $429 The first major upgrade to the legendary, original HHKB packs a ton of features into a tiny package. Hotswappable switches Mouse pointer built in Efficient compact layout Comes with high-quality PBT keycaps Steep learning curve Uses AA batteries instead of a rechargeable  Only available in black-on-charcoal…

Source: Hot Hardware – HHKB Studio Mechanical Keyboard Review: A Legend Reimagined

Beeper Mini, the Android app that allows Android users to communicate with iPhone users with a blue bubble, has evolved once again. However, the proposed fix comes with a very big catch that may leave some feeling blue.

Android smartphone owners rejoiced when Beeper Mini launched in the Google Play Store, as it meant they were no longer

Source: Hot Hardware – Beeper Mini Brings iMessage’s Blue Bubbles Back To Android But There’s A Very Big Catch

The United States Federal Trade Commission is dropping the ban hammer on Rite Aid after finding the company’s use of AI facial recognition technology, which was used in hundreds of its stores, was harmful to consumers. The retailer will not be able to use this technology for five years while it settles the charges brought forth by the FTC.

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Source: Hot Hardware – FTC Calls Out Rite Aid For Being Reckless With AI Facial Recognition, Issues Ban

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed a video featuring Taters the cat from 18.6 million miles away. The record-setting ultra-high definition streaming video was part of a NASA technology demonstration on December 11, 2023.

The DSOC experiment is NASA’s first demonstration of optical communications beyond the

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch NASA’s Purrfect HD Cat Video Streamed From 18.6M Miles In Space

Microsoft Copilot will now be able to assist users in creating AI generated music, as the company looks to add as much functionality as possible to its AI companion. To accomplish this Microsoft is teaming up with Suno, a company that works on AI specifically designed to help people create music regardless of their musical skills (or lack

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Copilot Teams With Suno To Turn Your Ideas Into AI-Generated Songs, Try It Out

BenQ is joining an exclusive club with the release of its Zowie XL2586X gaming monitor. Built around a ‘Fast-TN’ panel with DyAc 2 technology, it’s one of only two displays (that we’re aware of) to jump over the 500Hz refresh rate mark and land at a blistering 540Hz. The only other one is the ASUS ROG Swift Pro PG248QP. Which one is better?

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Source: Hot Hardware – BenQ Joins ASUS In The 540Hz High Club With Its Zowie XL2586X Gaming Monitor

DLSS frame generation lets folks with GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards enjoy a boost to frame rate in supported games with very little downside. The interpolation is mostly performed by hardware on the GPU that isn’t doing anything else, so the only real penalty is a small hit to input latency. You do have to have an Ada-architecture GeForce

Source: Hot Hardware – This Mod Enables AMD’s FSR 3 Frame Generation On Any NVIDIA DLSS 3 Title

Console video games go through an extensive qualification process with the platform holder to make sure that they meet specific standards. This was even more true back in the day, when it wasn’t so easy to simply patch a game that shipped with serious flaws. Despite that, the developers of Alien Resurrection, a cult classic FPS title for the

Source: Hot Hardware – Developer Reveals Alien Resurrection PS1 Piracy Softmod 23 Years Later

Ask anyone in the chip industry, and you’ll probably get a similar answer: chiplet-based CPU designs are the way of the future for high-performance, advanced processor, and it’s fairly likely that most highly integrated CPU architectures will be headed that way eventually. Intel obviously agrees, as the company has been deploying disaggregated…

Source: Hot Hardware – Meteor Lake Core Ultra Review: Intel’s All New Tile CPU Tested

Earlier this month, ransomware group Rhysida announced that it had breached Sony’s Insomniac Games, taken files, and was purportedly demanding a ransom of $2 million. It has been a week since then, and thus the deadline has passed to pay the ransom, so Rhysida has elected to publish the 1.67 terabytes of data it stole.

The trove of data

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Leaks 1.67 Terabytes Of Files After Hacking Spider-Man 2 Dev Insomniac Games

A reckoning has come for mobile app stores. Apple is, by all accounts, going to be forced to open up app distribution on the iPhone thanks to Europe’s Digital Markets Act, and Epic has bested Google in court to show that the Play Store is an illegal monopoly. In a separate case, Google was sued by numerous state Attorneys General and settled

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Settles 50-State Antitrust Lawsuit With Key App Store Changes And 0M Payment

TomTom is teaming up with Microsoft to develop an AI assistant that will enable better interaction between customers and TomTom’s products. The company says this new AI assistant means that “drivers can converse naturally with their vehicle and ask the AI-powered assistant to navigate to a certain location, find specific stops along their

Source: Hot Hardware – TomTom Taps Microsoft To Copilot Its AI-Powered Voice Assistant For Vehicles

Time is ticking for anyone hoping to purchase an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 before the semi-voluntary sales ban takes effect. In case you missed it, the ITC has issued an import ban on those models due to a patent dispute over the Apple’s blood oxygen sensor. Apple issue a statement saying it is preemptively taking steps to comply in

Source: Hot Hardware – Grab These Sweet Apple Watch Series 9 Deals Quick Before The Sales Ban

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) set its sights on Uranus and captured a brilliant image of a storm brewing on the icy giant. Along with the storms, Webb also captured the planet’s rings, moons, and other atmospheric features.

In the 1980s, Voyager 2 could only image the distant planet as what NASA refers to as “a placid, solid

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures A Spectacular Image Of Storms Brewing On Uranus

There is nothing like the intense gratification that one gets when defeating an uber hard boss battle in a video game. Some players may only need a couple of repeated attempts, while others may stumble through dozens of frustrating trials before finally claiming victory. This skill gap means that not every experience will be as equally enjoyable

Source: Hot Hardware – Sony Patents A Creative Gaming Solution To Make Boss Battles On PS5 Less Frustrating