With the tumultuous GPU market of the last several years, gamers are absolutely in need of some great sale prices. Be wary, however – there’s an enemy in our midst. Along with various legitimate sales, we often find a plethora of scams crowded in listings. The old adage rings true here: if it sounds too good to be true, you can bet it’s likely

Source: Hot Hardware – In Case It Needs Saying, GeForce RTX 4090 Listings For 9 Are Definite Scams

Just a few years ago, Huawei was ascendant. The Chinese megafirm was on-track to become the world’s largest smartphone maker, and then it was slapped with trade restrictions by the US government. This cut it off from some of vital technology needed to produce today’s most advanced mobile chipsets. With its new Mate 60 Pro, Huawei has debuted

Source: Hot Hardware – Huawei Mate 60 Pro With Kirin 9000S Tested: Performance Observations

It’s a rallying cry frequently heard among certain groups ever since the “Occupy” protests: a demand for corporations to “pay their share” of tax obligations. The truth and fairness of these demands is still debated to this day by people who are much smarter and more educated than we are, but the fact that the matter is still being debated

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Microsoft Is Refusing To Pay A Massive .9B IRS Bill For Back Taxes

If you regularly browse Reddit for PC hardware discussions, you may notice a slightly alarming trend. NVIDIA’s RTX 4090 may be a graphics powerhouse, but it’s had a bad omen following it since release: melted power adapters. On sub-Reddits such as from the cable company Cablemod, you’ll often find users posting that their very expensive GPU

Source: Hot Hardware – Another GeForce RTX 4090 Melting Connector Complaint Surfaces A Year After Use

Twitch has finally provided a way for streamers to block banned users from being able to view their livestreams. While streamers now have the power they have been asking for, there are a few things that they need to know moving forward.

Streamers on Twitch have been asking for the ability to block banned users from viewing their livestreams

Source: Hot Hardware – Twitch Update Finally Gives Game Streamers Ability To Block Banned Users

Korean chip design company AD Technology has announced that it’s making a server CPU for an as of yet undisclosed client, but the company did mention a pretty important point: this chip will be fabbed on Samsung’s 3nm node. Thus far, Samsung’s 3nm node has been out for over a year but so far has only seen usage for cryptocurrency mining ASICs.

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Scores Chip Order To Produce 3nm Server CPUs For A Mystery Client

The United States Space Force has declared a temporary halt on all use of web-based AI tools among its ranks, citing data security concerns as the key reason. The ban will possibly be lifted once more guidelines around AI usage can be determined.

Reuters reports that the US States Space Force has banned use of web-based AI tools, such as

Source: Hot Hardware – Why The US Space Force Just Issued A Temp Ban On AI Tools Like ChatGPT

NASA engineers and flight control teams are reviewing data and video associated with a coolant leak that postponed two US spacewalks initially scheduled for today and October 20, 2023. The leak is from a backup radiator on the International Space Station’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module (MLM).

The space agency confirmed the leak has

Source: Hot Hardware – ISS Coolant Leak Forces NASA To Abandon Spacewalk, What Happens Next

Hot on the heels of releasing the Arc A580 for gamers on a budget, Intel has released a new WHQL-certified Arc GPU driver (version 31.0.101.4887) that’s tuned for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III beta, as well as Total War: PHARAOH and Lords of the Fallen. However, beyond the ‘Game On’ designation for those titles (similar to NVIDIA’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc GPU Driver Pilots A Massive 159% Uplift In Starfield And More Big Gains

A researcher out of Amsterdam is asserting in his recent study that our love and growing dependence on all things AI (artificial intelligence) will draw enough electricity to power a country the size of Sweden in less than five years.

Alex de Vries from the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics, in his peer-reviewed paper, claims

Source: Hot Hardware – Study Claims AI Is An Energy Hog Consuming As Much Electricity As A Country

Amazon’s second Prime Day of 2023 has concluded, but as it turns out the best bargain for a gaming desktop was not a Prime Day deal, or even a discounted PC for that matter. Instead, it’s a sub-$900 setup with some surprising hardware inside, including current generation parts from Intel (13th Gen, otherwise known as Raptor Lake) and NVIDIA

Source: Hot Hardware – Forget Prime Day, This RTX 40 PC Is The Best Gaming Desktop Deal Under K

Threat actors and malicious hackers have been targeting gamers with malware for quite some time, as they can be easy targets who download and run strange things from the internet all the time. Such was the case with a trojanized Super Mario game earlier this year that could have stolen information, run ransomware, or other nefarious actions.

Source: Hot Hardware – Valve Bolsters Security After Hackers Infected Steam Games With Malware

With the recent acquisition of Fakespot, Mozilla is looking to improve Firefox’s user experience by tracking fake reviews on popular online shopping sites such as Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. Reports reveal that Mozilla has integrated this capability into Firefox and testing it currently. The feature will become available for everyone starting

Source: Hot Hardware – Firefox Tests A Great New Security Tool To Expose Fake Product Reviews, Try It Now

Folks who have been around the hardware scene for a while will likely recall that NVIDIA used to release new GPUs every year, even if they weren’t necessarily a new architecture. This went on for quite some time, but in the last decade or so, ever since the relatively-long gap between the Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 900 series and the Pascal-powered

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Roadmap Hints At An Annual GPU Architecture Release Cadence

Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro: Starting at $699.99 and $999.99 Google’s latest Pixel phones are the smartest smartphones in town. Brighter, flatter screens Seven years of OS updates Useful AI camera features and pro photo mode Refined, attractive design Faster charging Pro camera controls arbitrarily limited to Pixel 8 Pro $100 price bump…

Source: Hot Hardware – Pixel 8 And Pixel 8 Pro Review: Artificially Intelligent, Naturally Elegant

If you saw that headline and thought, “but wait, DDR5-7200 has been around a while now,” remember that almost all of the DDR DIMMs that you buy as an end user are overclocked. When you buy a G.SKILL or Teamgroup memory kit that’s rated for DDR4-4000, DDR5-6400, or DDR5-7200, you’re almost assuredly buying a kit with memory ICs that weren’t

Source: Hot Hardware – Micron Starts Shipping Blistering 7200MT/S DDR5 Built On Cutting-Edge 1-Beta Tech

Adobe shared a sneak peek at its upcoming AI-powered Stardust project that aims to make photo editing a breeze during its MAX conference this week. Stardust is powered by Firefly Model 2 and is available to try out now.

Adobe has been making advancements by incorporating AI into its products, creating software that significantly enhances

Source: Hot Hardware – Adobe Teases AI-Powered Project Stardust To Make Photo Editing A Breeze

The technological cold war between the US and China has seen massive trade restrictions placed on electronics, particularly high-end GPUs for datacenters but even components as basic as memory. This has naturally led the US and China to close off their respective computing markets, and one of the next targets appears to be RISC-V International,

Source: Hot Hardware – RISC-V Issues Open Standards Warning As US Lawmakers Mull Restrictions

Earlier in the year, Google implemented support for passkeys in its products to help move folks away from traditional passwords. In theory, this should make people more secure and have an easier time signing into their accounts, and as such, Google is making it the default means of signing in across personal Google accounts.
Trying to remember

Source: Hot Hardware – Kiss Your Passwords Goodbye As Google Shifts To More Secure Passkeys

Amazon Prime Day deals are underway, and gamers have reason to rejoice as gaming laptops are on the list for big savings. Save on great deals from companies like ASUS, MSI, and Acer.

ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop
The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15-inch gaming laptop is a beast for gaming and productivity. It has an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Source: Hot Hardware – Save Up To 41% Off Gaming Laptops From ASUS, MSI, Razer And More For Prime Day