In the coming weeks, internet service providers in the United States could find themselves again bound by net neutrality rules. With the swearing in of a new commissioner, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now has a Democratic majority. That gives Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel enough votes to reinstate the regulations vacated under

Source: Hot Hardware – FCC Proposes Return Of Net Neutrality Rules Repealed Under Trump Admin

Some iPhone 15 owners are reporting that their hot new smartphone is, well, getting very hot. The high temperatures are being experienced while charging the iPhone 15 series smartphone or during prolonged use.

Apple launched its iPhone 15 lineup last week with the smartphone’s first-ever USB-C charging port. While the move to USB-C should

Source: Hot Hardware – Uh Oh, Apple’s Hot New iPhone 15 May Have A Serious Overheating Issue

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorney generals are taking a big swing at Amazon with a 172-page lawsuit alleging an “ongoing pattern of illegal conduct” to block competition. According to the lawsuit, Amazon’s list of infractions includes things like inflating prices and putting the squeeze on sellers with exorbitant fees,

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Responds To FTC Lawsuit Alleging It Inflates Prices, Overcharges Sellers

NASA has sent a request for proposal for an estimated $1B US Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), a spacecraft aimed at deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS) and ultimately safely crashing back to Earth. The United States, Japan, Canada, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have all committed to operating the station through 2030, with Russia

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Is Taking Bids For A B Space Tug Mission To Crash The ISS Into Earth

The answer to the question of whether Intel’s first disaggregated CPUs would be coming to desktop systems has flip-flopped several times. If you pay attention to leaks and rumors, you’re probably tired of hearing about it because it’s gone back and forth so often. Well, we got a definitive answer from Intel just a few days ago, but a new clarification

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Meteor Lake CPUs On The Desktop In 2024? Sure, But With A Critical Caveat

Nothing has released three products under its new budget-friendly CMF sub-brand. If you’re shopping for more affordable alternatives to mainstream smartwatches, earphones, or chargers, CMF would like a word with you.

One of the headlining products from CMF (Color, Materials, Finish) is a $70 smartwatch called the Watch Pro. It’s more akin

Source: Hot Hardware – Nothing’s Budget Brand Kicks Off A Low-Cost Party With Smartwatch And Earbuds

Newegg has rolled out a GPU trade-in program that gives buyers varying amounts of credit on their old graphics cards when purchasing new ones. Ostensibly, this is a move to reduce to e-waste, though we’d like to see the actual buyers who are going around tossing GeForce RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 cards into the garbage bin. Newegg’s pat-on-the-back

Source: Hot Hardware – Newegg’s GPU Trade-In Program Is Live But Is It Any Good?

Ryan Shrout announced he has parted ways with Intel via a post on X. Shrout joined Intel in 2018 as the company’s Chief Performance Strategist.

Ryan Shrout is no stranger to tweeting about his departures from previous jobs. He revealed his departure from PC Perspective, of which he was the founder, on Twitter. And the closure of his consulting

Source: Hot Hardware – Ryan Shrout, Senior Director Of Client Strategy, Graphics and AI Departs Intel

A big part of AMD’s business these days is in providing custom processors for its customers. That doesn’t mean regular folks like you and me, but rather businesses who want a special CPU that no-one else has. The proper “semi-custom business” refers to the special chips that show up in the Steam Deck and commodity game consoles, like the Xboxes

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 7 7840S Phoenix CPU With 30W TDP Breaks Cover In A Lenovo Laptop

What appears to be a benchmark score from a PC system packing an Intel Core Ultra 7 165H 16-Core CPU has been spotted online. The fresh result can be found in the Geekbench result browser, and the score is one of the strongest we have seen for the unreleased Meteor Lake (MTL) family of processors.

This isn’t the first time we have seen

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core Ultra 7 165H 16-Core Meteor Lake CPU Makes A Benchmark Run With Strong Results

Gigabyte AERO 16 OLED (2023) – Starting at $2,199 Gigabyte’s 16-inch AERO laptop combines solid performance with a stunning OLED display and premium design, making it one of the prettiest laptops we’ve evaluated to date. Gorgeous OLED display Sleek design Premium build quality User upgradeable RAM and storage Top-tier CPU and solid graphics…

Source: Hot Hardware – Gigabyte AERO 16 OLED Review: Solid Performer, Stunning Design

The iPhone 15 family of smartphones has not even been in the wild for a week yet, and there are rumors about a possible new capacitive button coming with the iPhone 16 floating around. The iPhone 15 family of smartphones officially launched on September 22, 2023.

The iPhone Pro models always include significant changes that set them apart

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple iPhone 16 Could Add Yet Another Side Button But What Will It Do?

CAMM is a new memory module format proposed by Dell and released to the public early this year. JEDEC acknowledged the proposal, but to date has not ratified it as an actual standard. CAMM stands for “Compression Attached Memory Module”, and it refers to modules that are both thinner and faster than traditional SODIMMs.

While JEDEC hasn’t

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Says Its LPCAMM For Next-Gen PCs Will Transform The DRAM Market

Recently, hackers have been going after juicy targets like Caesars Entertainment out of Las Vegas. Now, adding to that list, is RansomedVC, who has reportedly breached Sony and is selling the international Japan-based company’s data online. While it is unclear exactly what data may have been compromised, there are some steps you can take just

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Claims It Hacked All Of Sony’s Systems And Will Sell The Data

A group of researchers have shared what is being called the “holy grail of astrobiology,” which they say can reliably detect signs of past or present life on other planets. The news of the research comes on the heels of NASA’s successful OSIRIS-REx mission that returned the first asteroid sample collected in space.

NASA recently received

Source: Hot Hardware – AI Deemed The Holy Grail Of Astrobiology Can Detect Alien Life With 90% Accuracy.

If a cryptic tweet from the Counter-Strike team is anything to go by, Counter-Strike 2 is launching tomorrow as a free upgrade to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and with it comes several changes to the nearly 23-year-old franchise. Let’s look at some of what Valve has in store for players diving into the first-person shooter and experiencing

Source: Hot Hardware – Counter-Strike 2 Launch: Everything We Know So Far

Acer is getting ready to roll out an affordable line of Nitro V 15 gaming laptops consisting of at least half a dozen SKUs at varying price points, each one under a grand. The most expensive SKU (ANV15-51-75HE) comes in under the $1,000 threshold by a penny (before tax, anyway), while the least expensive model (NV15-51-53VM) lands at $699.99.

What’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Acer Nitro V 15 Budget Gaming Laptops Pack 13th Gen CPUs And RTX GPUs Starting At 9

Skullcandy just released a set of TWS (true wireless stereo) earbuds that’s not only small in price, but also in size. The third-generation Dime is back and more feature-packed than ever for only $30 MSRP.

Park City, Utah-based Skullcandy has launched its fourth earbud of the ear of the year called the Dime 3. Even though it’s coming in

Source: Hot Hardware – Skullcandy’s Tiny Dime 3 Earbuds Won’t Get Lost In Your Couch Cushion

As with most storage mediums, the life of a solid state drive (SSD) can be really long, disappointingly short, or somewhere in between. That’s not exactly helpful info. So how reliable are SSDs really? That, dear reader, is a loaded question. Fortunately, the folks at Backblaze, a cloud backup provider that employs both mechanical hard disk

Source: Hot Hardware – Is Your SSD Reliable? Storage Study Examines Failure Rates For Thousands Of Drives

Scott Herkelman has been General Manager of AMD’s Graphics Business unit for the last seven years, and he is also one of the company’s Senior Vice Presidents. For now, anyway; in a tweet sent out at lunchtime today, he announced that he will be departing AMD at the end of the year.

You can read his tweet below, but in essence, Herkelman

Source: Hot Hardware – Radeon Vice President Scott Herkelman Announces Year-End Departure From AMD