When we reviewed the ASUS ROG Ally, we talked at length about how the SoC inside the machine was crying out for a higher power limit and better cooling than the handheld PC could offer. Engaging Turbo mode and then plugging in the charger nets you a peak 30W power limit, yet the Ryzen Z1 Extreme inside the unit we received has to feed eight

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Shares Benchmarks Comparing ROG Ally Z1 And Z1 Extreme Handheld Gaming Performance

In a letter to Epic employees, CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed that the company was laying off around 16 percent of its workforce, divesting Bandcamp, and spinning off most of SuperAwesome. The news of the layoffs has sent many of the company’s now-former employees to reach out on social media for any leads on new employment opportunities.
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Source: Hot Hardware – Epic Games Confirms Massive Layoffs After Fortnite And Metaverse Spending Spree

Oh look, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked an all-new single board computer (SBC) to serve as its flagship dish for hobbyists, tinkerers, and modders, and it looks absolutely enticing. Scheduled to release next month, the Raspberry Pi 5 is the first in its rank to feature silicon designed in-house—namely, the southbridge chip. Yes, the

Source: Hot Hardware – Raspberry Pi 5 Arrives With A 2X Performance Uplift And Delicious Upgrades

NASA’s Psyche mission has been delayed slightly. However, the space agency still wants civilians to get psyched about the spacecraft traveling to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. A new teaser trailer from NASA provides a little insight into the mission that scientists believe could help them better understand

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Psyche Mission Launch Gets A Short Delay, But Check Out This Hype Video

You may have suffered a moment of panic this morning when you tried to fire up Discord only to be told, “Sorry, you have been blocked.” Even more startling is a blurb of text explaining why you were supposedly blocked, which claims some unknown action by you “triggered the security solution” to deny you access. Don’t worry though, it’s not,

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Discord Is Telling Users They’ve Been Blocked And How To Access The Service

Thrustmaster is introducing a new add-on racing wheel to its collection known as the Ferrari 488 GT3 Wheel Add-On. Inspired by Ferrari’s very successful 488 GT3 racing car, the wheel is an exact 1:1 replica of the steering wheel found on the real GT3 race car, sporting a carbon fiber finish. The wheel is compatible with current and future

Source: Hot Hardware – Preorder Thrustmaster’s Ferrari 488 GT3 Racing Wheel Add-On To Dominate The Track

Chinese threat actors are upping their game in the cybersecurity realm, as indicated by new Linux backdoors and other advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). With this, an international multi-agency team led by the National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a People’s Republic of China-linked group pivoting in international

Source: Hot Hardware – NSA Raises Alarm Over Chinese Hackers Hiding In Modified Cisco Router Firmware

That’s right: the game came out yesterday, and it’s already getting major patches. Of course, while Counter-Strike 2 officially launched yesterday, replacing CS:GO on Steam, it has been in active development and semi-open beta for some months. The big patch yesterday for the release made an incredible number of changes to the game, but buried

Source: Hot Hardware – Counter-Strike 2 Patch Intros A Key Matchmaking Change To Combat Cheaters

A Geekbench score which appears to have been run by a system packing an Intel 14th Gen Core ‘Raptor Lake Refresh’ CPU has been spotted online. The headlining Core i7-14700KF processor is particularly interesting, as the i7-14700 products are expected to deliver the most meaningful upgrades over current gen parts. Moreover, the purported Intel

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i7-14700KF 20-Core CPU Flirts With 6GHz In Leaked Benchmark

Counter-Strike in all of its forms has some of the most hardcore players of any game out there. These are people who want the game to be running at hundreds of FPS above their screen refresh for the infinitesimal input latency benefit that it gives. In that context, it’s kind of crazy that the brand-new Counter-Strike 2 is the first entry

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Shows GeForce And Reflex Obliterating Counter-Strike 2 Latency

Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan has announced he will retire in March 2024. In an open letter from Ryan, he expressed his gratitude and pride in what the company had been able to achieve during his tenure.

Ryan remarked that he did not decide to retire lightly after being with the company for nearly 30 years. He

Source: Hot Hardware – PlayStation Head Jim Ryan Levels-Up To Retirement After Nearly 30 Years At Sony

An international team of researchers has published a new paper confirming a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun indeed spins. The study, led by Chinese researcher Dr. CUI Yuzhu, was conducted using a global network of radio telescopes.

Supermassive black holes at the center of active galaxies can accrete

Source: Hot Hardware – Study Discovers M87* Black Hole Is Spinning Like An Amazing Oscillating Jet.

Samsung SSD 990 Pro: Starting At $69, 4TB – $334 MSRP Samsung has boosted the SSD 990 Pro series cpacaity to 4TB, while maximizing performance in PCIe Gen 4 systems. High Capacity Strong All-Around Performance Single-Sided Relatively Low Power Good Endurance PCIe Gen 5 SSDs Have Arrived Middling Game Level Loads Late last month, Samsung…

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung SSD 990 Pro 4TB Review: Big, Fast Storage For PCs And PS5

If you think the iPhone 15 Pro Max is expensive, wait until you see the asking price for an original and still functioning Apple-1 computer. Housed in its original Byte Shop case made from Hawaiian koa wood (which is also rare), this piece of computing history could fetch the owner a staggering $1.5 million, assuming it sells for the full

Source: Hot Hardware – Ultra-Rare Apple 1 Built By Wozniak And Jobs Hits Auction For A Cool .5M

In case you missed it, Maingear recently unveiled a ‘Drops’ program in which the boutique system builder looks to dive “back into our roots” with preconfigured systems based on the hottest hardware (something we can obviously get behind at HotHardware), as well as limited edition runs. Though the program is only a month old, Maingear is already

Source: Hot Hardware – Maingear Is Inciting A Revolt With Its New Compact Gaming PC Packing Up To An RTX 4090

DLSS 3 modder PureDark has issued a response to pirates who cracked his DLSS 3 DRM paywall, enabling users to use PureDark’s frame generation mod for free in Starfield. The modder states that in the future, his mod will feature “hidden mines” that will make his mods buggy if the DRM is broken, making it much more difficult for pirates to use

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield DLSS 3 Mod Creator Fires Back At Pirates For Cracking DRM Paywall

Today, Meta announced its next generation of VR headset with the Meta Quest 3 starting at $499.99 and releasing on October 10th. While the device is interesting, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 under the hood powering this headset is even more fascinating and opens the door to more than just the Quest 3.

The Meta Quest 3 is a mixed

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 To Power Meta Quest 3 And Next-Gen XR Headsets

Side channel attacks are always fascinating to see how they are executed, such as the recent discovery that encryption keys could be stolen by recording power LEDs on various devices. Researchers have found that malicious websites might be able to see usernames and other sensitive information by leaking it from another embedded website in

Source: Hot Hardware – Researchers Discover A Startling Side-Channel Exploit On All GPUs, Even Integrated

Logitech has released the Playseat Challenge X – Logitech G Edition. The design could be important for Logitech, as it brings pricing to new lows for a Logitech branded gaming cockpit, so beloved of sim racers. Logitech boasts of the Playseat Challenge X – Logitech G Edition’s price of $299 / €299, but this product isn’t all about price cutting.

Source: Hot Hardware – Logitech Playseat Challenge X For Racing Sims Brings A Unique Twist To Gaming Chairs

If you read that headline and balked at the idea of a gaming tablet, let us remind you that besides the Nintendo Switch, the recent spate of PC-based gaming handhelds are basically tablets. The device itself isn’t really the interesting part of this story, though. Instead, the really interesting part is the SoC that they’ll be based on: AMD’s

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8000 Hawk Point APU Appears Headed To Next-Gen Minisforum Gaming Tablet