Intel’s flagship consumer processor for the desktop is the recently minted 14th Gen Core i9-14900K (Raptor Lake Refresh), but perhaps not for long. It turns out that Intel might be prepping an even faster-clocked “KS” variant, just as it had done with the previous generation Core i9-13900KS. That’s assuming a handful of retail listings posted

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i9-14900KS Breaks Cover At A Blistering 6.2GHz Stock Speed

If you’re reading HotHardware, there’s a solid chance that you recall a time when device makers were going completely insane with the designs of their hardware. Just about everything now is a very boring slab or block with inoffensively-rounded corners and a neutral color scheme, but around the turn of the millennium, you could find music

Source: Hot Hardware – Ayaneo Remake Collection Hat Tips NES And Macintosh With Slick Retro Gaming Systems

The Core i9-14900K and Core i9-13900KS are essentially the same CPU, featuring practically identical stock frequencies, but for overclocking it wasn’t clear which one would be better. For such highly clocked CPUs, binning is the deciding factor, and although the 14900K is newer, it doesn’t have that special -KS suffix that denotes a Special

Source: Hot Hardware – Huge CPU Binning Test Compares Intel’s Core i9-14900K Raptor Lake Refresh To 13900KS

The State of Maine is informing the public of the impact to the State’s computer systems due to a security vulnerability found in the MOVEit file transfer tool, a software suite developed by Progress Software. This incident took place between May 28, 2023 and May 29, 2023. During this time, cybercriminals were able to access and download files

Source: Hot Hardware – Maine Officials Disclose Startling Data Breach That Affects Nearly Its Entire Population

Yesterday’s reveal of the Steam Deck OLED was rather exciting for some folks. If you haven’t heard of or seen it yet, head over to yesterday’s coverage to check it out, because the revised Steam Deck looks like a significant upgrade over the original model. It isn’t a true second-generation system, though; the SoC inside, while benefiting

Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Deck OLED Is Cool But What About Steam Deck 2? Here’s What We Know

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 releases today, and in preparation for that and the future, the Call of Duty team has made some changes to the anti-cheat system. Namely, RICOCHET: Anti-Cheat has gained machine learning capabilities and some funny features to handle inbound cheaters to hopefully dissuade them and improve other players’ experiences.

The

Source: Hot Hardware – Activision Readies Hilarious Punishment For COD Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters

Futuremark, the company behind 3DMark, is teasing its upcoming Steel Nomad benchmark, which is 3DMark’s first non-ray tracing benchmark for high-end graphics since Time Spy in 2016. Although the Port Royal and Speed Way graphics tests are modern and can stress even the most powerful GPUs of today, they both use ray tracing which is not yet

Source: Hot Hardware – 3DMark Steel Nomad Benchmark Is Coming To Pummel Your PC And Other Devices

Humane launched its wearable AI device called the Ai Pin, a virtual assistant powered by technologies from OpenAI and Microsoft. The AI-infused device comes with a steep price tag and a required monthly plan through T-Mobile.

Humane has been prepping the world for its wearable device for several months. The company first showed off the

Source: Hot Hardware – Humane Launches Wearable Ai Pin To Replace Smartphones But Will It Succeed?

NASA used images from its Webb and Hubble telescopes to create a panchromatic image that will get everyone into the Christmas spirit. The resulting image of galaxy cluster MACS0146 combines visible and infrared light to create one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever.

MACS0146 is located about 4.13 billion light-years from

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Gets Into The Holiday Spirit With A Stunning Image Of A Cosmic Christmas Tree

Sony promised that its slimmed down PlayStation 5 console would be available to purchase in time for the holidays, and sure enough it’s now listed at several retailers. Even better, Sony and its retail partners are offering some sweet bundle deals. Specifically, you can pick up a ‘PS5 Slim’ with either Spider-Man 2 or Call of Duty: Modern

Source: Hot Hardware – PS5 Slim Bundle Deals With Spider-Man 2 Or Modern Warfare III For Just 9 Are Live

Display fatigue can be a real thing, and not just in the wear and tear on your eyeballs, but also in the sheer number of devices found in any given home. Televisions, laptops, desktop PCs, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches—it all adds up. It’s not a bad idea to try and consolidate, and that’s what TCL’s new NXTPAPER 11 tablet aims to do,

Source: Hot Hardware – TCL NXTPAPER 11 Tablet Arrives To Challenge Both Kindle E-Readers And Android Slates

Apparently Black Friday has already started for the folks at LG. The monitor manufacturer has heavily discounted several of its premium Mini LED and OLED TVs just before the holiday shopping season. So if you’re looking for a new TV to brighten up your living room or bedroom, now’s the perfect time to jump in. Discounts are as high as 27%

Source: Hot Hardware – Early Black Friday Deals On LG Mini LED And OLED TVs Up To 27% Off Are Lit

One of the most common criticisms of Valve’s generally-excellent Steam Deck is that the screen is rather poor. While response times are good, it is a basic IPS LCD with characteristically-poor contrast and mediocre color saturation. The Nintendo Switch’s original screen wasn’t super-great either, so what did Nintendo do to address this complaint?

Source: Hot Hardware – Valve Unveils Steam Deck OLED For HDR Gaming, With Better Battery Life And WiFi 6E

Generative AI ChatGPT has seen exponential growth in the past few months, recently crossing the 100 million weekly active users. However, with all this popularity, a target was perhaps painted on the back of OpenAI and ChatGPT by threat actors looking to make a quick buck or cause mayhem. It seems the latter is what has happened today after

Source: Hot Hardware – OpenAI Scrambles To Fix ChatGPT Outage After It Gets Slammed By A DDoS Attack

The first three generations of AMD Ryzen processors were given model numbers in the 1000s, the 2000s, and then the 3000s. However, between the launch of the Ryzen 3000 family and AMD’s next-gen processors, the company released some refreshed APUs that it gave a 4000-series model number. That meant that the next-generation parts had to have

Source: Hot Hardware – An Alienware Gaming PC With AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs Just Broke Cover

Samsung says a new era of AI is coming, with generative artificial intelligence leading the way. In a press release, the company says its Samsung Galaxy is about to change the mobile technology landscape with its upcoming AI innovations.

Tech companies continue to clamor over how to infuse artificial intelligence into its products. Whether

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Says A New Era Of Galaxy Is Coming And It’s Powered By Generative AI

Starfield has been one of the most highly talked about games of 2023, if you ignore perpetual GTA 6 rumors, of course. The game has garnered praise for the highly detailed nature of its free-roaming universe, which makes hopping from planetary system to planetary system with ease. It has also been Bethesda’s most successful launches to date,

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield Patch Adds DLSS 3 Support, Lots Of Fixes And A Key Requested Feature

You don’t have to look very far to spot Black Friday bargains—we’re a week and a half into November, which means retailers are frantically pushing out early discounts ahead of this year’s actual Black Friday. As such, we’re already seeing some gems. One of them is a chunky discount on the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that is a relative newcomer

Source: Hot Hardware – The ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld Is Off Ahead Of Black Friday

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft surprises the space agency again with another unexpected find. Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids as it becomes the first mission to investigate the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

Lucy is on a 12-year mission that will take the spacecraft right into the midst of a belt of asteroids that circle the

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Lucy Probe Surprises Again With A Bizarre Asteroid Flyby Discovery

The OnePlus 12 hype train continues to build momentum with the company dropping more details about the camera package, particularly the Sony LYTIA primary sensor. OnePlus claims that the sensor in the upcoming smartphone will be the best LYTIA one can buy, even topping the one of the fantastic OnePlus Open.

Last year’s OnePlus 11 was seen

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12’s Flagship Sony LYTIA Camera Detailed And It’s A Beast