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We’re already several days into the month of November and you know what that means, right? Well yes, a fowl feast is right around the corner. But this is also the time of the year when companies start promoting Black Friday (and later, Cyber Monday) deals. It’s more of a Black Friday season, really, as opposed to just a single day of sales.
Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Great Pixel 7a Is Only 4 With This Limited Time Deal
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NVIDIA GPU Hotfix Driver Solves Alan Wake 2 Performance Woes, BSODs And More

There are plenty of gamers who are having a blast in Alan Wake II, a survival horror game with bone-crunching system requirements (particularly if you want to play at a 4K resolution with max settings and ray tracing on high). If you’re having performance issues while playing the game, you may need to dial back the settings (see our Alan Wake
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GPU Hotfix Driver Solves Alan Wake 2 Performance Woes, BSODs And More
Intel Non-Ultra Core 7 150U Laptop CPU Confusingly Breaks Cover

If you’re a regular reader of HotHardware, then you are assuredly aware that Intel’s next-generation Meteor Lake processors are coming, along with a massive overhaul of the company’s branding. The new chiplet-based CPUs will reset Intel’s generation counter and be known as the first-generation “Core Ultra” processors, dropping the “i”.
We’ve
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Non-Ultra Core 7 150U Laptop CPU Confusingly Breaks Cover
This Game Was Created In ChatGPT, DALL-E 3 And Midjourney And You Can Play It Now

The last year has seen an explosion of interest in generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney. Now, you can simply tell a computer what you want it to create, and it might just be good enough to replace a human. These tools are causing consternation in some corners of the internet, but others have embraced them. One AI enthusiast has
Source: Hot Hardware – This Game Was Created In ChatGPT, DALL-E 3 And Midjourney And You Can Play It Now
Ace Hardware Gets Hammered By Hackers Demolishing Online Sales

Building supply and home improvement company Ace Hardware has seemingly suffered a severe cybersecurity attack and is dealing with the fallout. After an email notice surfaced on Reddit, online sales have gone down, and outbound shipments are on hold while the breach is dealt with. While there has been no direct announcement from the Illinois-based
Source: Hot Hardware – Ace Hardware Gets Hammered By Hackers Demolishing Online Sales
Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 GRE Aurora Edition Flexes OC'd Memory To Spank An RTX 4060

Before we talk about Sapphire’s new graphics card, let’s go over what exactly comprises a Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card. AMD launched two cards under that name in the middle of last month, differentiated primarily by their memory capacity. The 10GB version of the RX 6750 GRE is essentially a Radeon RX 6700, while the 12GB model is fundamentally
Source: Hot Hardware – Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 GRE Aurora Edition Flexes OC’d Memory To Spank An RTX 4060
Amazing Drone Footage Of A Bear Chasing A Man Is Real And Has A Surprise Twist

Amazing drone footage of a bear chasing a man along a trail in the woods will send shivers down the spine. Some questioned the validity of the video and whether or not it had been digitally altered. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, though there is a surprise twist to the story.
The footage was first shared on Reddit nearly two years ago, but has
Source: Hot Hardware – Amazing Drone Footage Of A Bear Chasing A Man Is Real And Has A Surprise Twist
Backlash Builds As HBO Hoses Legacy Max Subscribers And Removes Streaming Features

The service formerly known as HBO Max and now simply Max is the latest streaming service to put the squeeze on its subscribers. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, the service sent out an email to existing subscribers to its $15.99 per month ad-free tier that, effective on their next billing date, they’ll either have to upgrade to a more expensive
Source: Hot Hardware – Backlash Builds As HBO Hoses Legacy Max Subscribers And Removes Streaming Features
NASA Unveils An Exciting Ad-Free Streaming Service At A Price You'll Love

NASA is preparing to launch something other than a rocket with its upcoming NASA+ streaming service. The new streaming platform will be ad-free, family-friendly, and come at a cost everyone will love.
NASA is well-known for the astonishing imagery and video that it shares from its incredible observatories and adventures in space. The James
Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Unveils An Exciting Ad-Free Streaming Service At A Price You’ll Love
Apple Rakes In Record iPhone And Services Revenue Hand Over Fist, Investors Still Balk

Apple posted financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter (for the period ending September 30, 2023), with CEO Tim Cook boasting an all-time high in Services revenue and a quarterly high in iPhone sales. Along with its other product offerings, Apple generated a cool $89.5 billion for the quarter, resulting in a profit of $22.96 billion
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Rakes In Record iPhone And Services Revenue Hand Over Fist, Investors Still Balk
Steam Deck's Shader Storage Limitation Is No Match For This 61TB SSD Mod

If you bought a Steam Deck with a 256GB or 512GB SSD inside, you’re probably not aware of an issue that affects people with the cheaper 64GB model. You see, games on SteamOS download pre-compiled shader libraries as well as additional data to help with Steam Deck compatibility, and this data can take up quite a bit of space on your internal
Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Deck’s Shader Storage Limitation Is No Match For This 61TB SSD Mod
Acer Predator BiFrost Arc A770 OC Graphics Card Review: Intel On-Board

Acer Predator BiFrost Arc A770 OC 16GB: MSRP – $399; Street Price – $319 (As Low As $289) Acer’s take on Intel’s Arc A770 GPU is the fastest and flashiest Arc card around, and you won’t pay a premium for it when it’s on-sale — which is often. Complete Feature Set Solid Performance-per-Dollar Impressive XeSS Image Quality Attractive Visual…
Source: Hot Hardware – Acer Predator BiFrost Arc A770 OC Graphics Card Review: Intel On-Board
Huge Alan Wake 2 Patch Brings Over 200 Improvements And Fixes A Really Annoying Bug

Alan Wake 2 has been impressing gamers since its release, with its gripping story and visuals. PC gamers had to rummage through a rough year of gnarly, unoptimized titles such as Arkane Studio’s Redfall. The subsequent release of patches and apologies seemed to follow an alarmingly familiar pattern after a few duds came to market. Alan Wake
Source: Hot Hardware – Huge Alan Wake 2 Patch Brings Over 200 Improvements And Fixes A Really Annoying Bug
GeForce RTX 4080, 4070 Ti And 4070 Super Refresh Power Draws Allegedly Revealed

When NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs first launched, power draw and size of their coolers made a big splash. With the GeForce RTX 4090 smacking your power supply with 450W of oomph, gamers were worried their systems wouldn’t handle it. Fast forward a year, and we’re looking straight down the barrel of a new NVIDIA graphics card refresh.
Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4080, 4070 Ti And 4070 Super Refresh Power Draws Allegedly Revealed
Intel's Latest Arc GPU Driver Claims Massive FPS Improvements Up To A Staggering 750%

Bolt on your metal armor and pull out your automatic Beretta, because Robocop: Rogue City releases today. This new title from the developers of sleeper hit Terminator: Resistance has had almost no marketing, yet its extremely faithful adaptation of the film and Unreal Engine 5-powered graphics managed to garner the game a surprising amount
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Latest Arc GPU Driver Claims Massive FPS Improvements Up To A Staggering 750%
Microsoft's AI Catches Heat For Tone Deaf Poll On Woman's Tragic Death

Microsoft halted all of its AI-generated polls on news articles after the tech company caught heat for having a poll appear beside a story about a woman’s death. The poll ran within Microsoft’s curated news aggregator platform Microsoft Start, and asked readers what they thought of the woman’s death.
Artificial intelligence has been the
Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft’s AI Catches Heat For Tone Deaf Poll On Woman’s Tragic Death
NASA's Lucy Probe Calls An Audible And Rushes A Dark And Mysterious Asteroid

NASA’s Lucy probe cuts its teeth with its first up-close encounter with an asteroid named Dinkinesh before moving on to observe 10 other asteroids on its 12-year journey. Lucy had been tracking the asteroid since September 3, 2023.
According to NASA, the encounter was the first time that Lucy got a close look at an object that, up to this
Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Lucy Probe Calls An Audible And Rushes A Dark And Mysterious Asteroid
What AMD Said About Zen 5 Will Have You Excited For Its Next-Gen CPUs

Believe it or not, it’s already been over a year since AMD released its desktop Ryzen 7000 series processors based on Zen 4, along with its socket AM5 platform that it plans to support through at least 2026 (AMD initially said through 2025, then later extended its commitment). What that all means is it’s not too early to talk about Zen 5.
Source: Hot Hardware – What AMD Said About Zen 5 Will Have You Excited For Its Next-Gen CPUs
Lawmakers Rake Costco Over The Coals For Selling Government-Banned Chinese Spy Gear

Over the past few years, there has been quite a concern regarding Chinese-manufactured Internet of Things devices that could be spying on unwitting American consumers. This was the impetus behind a 2022 Federal Communications Commission ban on telecommunications and video surveillance equipment that was deemed a national security threat. While
Source: Hot Hardware – Lawmakers Rake Costco Over The Coals For Selling Government-Banned Chinese Spy Gear
AMD Brings Zen 4c To Laptops With The Hybrid Ryzen 5 7545U, Based on Phoenix 2

If you pay attention to hardware news websites like ours, then AMD’s Phoenix 2 processor may not need any introduction at all. The chip has already quietly made its debut in the ASUS ROG Ally’s cheaper “non-Extreme” edition, and we’ve talked about it quite a bit elsewhere, as well.
Today, AMD is giving Phoenix 2 a proper introduction with
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Brings Zen 4c To Laptops With The Hybrid Ryzen 5 7545U, Based on Phoenix 2