Trend Micro has been tracking a threat-actor group since early 2021, dubbed Earth Lusca, which is purportedly based out of China. Since that initial discovery, researchers have found the group has utilized increasingly sophisticated infrastructure, tools, techniques, and procedures to advance its goals in cyberespionage and financial crimes

Source: Hot Hardware – Security Researchers Sound Alarm On A Startling Never-Before-Seen Linux Backdoor

Google says its AI assistant Bard is improving with its latest update. The latest Bard model now integrates with Google apps and services to better assist with more helpful responses through Bard Extensions and an enhanced “Google it” button.

The tech giant launched Bard Extensions in English yesterday, introducing a new way to interact

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Integrates Bard AI Into Gmail, YouTube, Maps, And More Popular Apps

ASUS and Make A Wish International have clubbed together to launch a special graphics card auction. The highly anticipated ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 4090 is the prize, and a cherry on this deliciously powerful cake is that it bears the gold-inked signature of the NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang. As you might expect, proceeds of the auction will go to Make

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA CEO Autographs An ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 For Charity Auction

NASA utilized cameras on two separate lunar orbiters to produce a stunning image of the Moon’s darkened South Pole region. The mosaic was created using imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) and NASA’s ShadowCam onboard the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO).

As NASA prepares to send humans back to the surface of the

Source: Hot Hardware – Endless Darkness Of Moon’s Lunar South Pole Comes Into View In Eerie NASA Photo

The ways we get connected to the Internet are evolving, and the future is most certainly wireless. Qualcomm brought us out to its headquarters in San Diego, California recently for its Wi-Fi 7 Day to learn about new technologies the company is fostering to make these changes possible. Wi-Fi 7 is certainly a key enabler, but software and services

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 Advances Boost Performance And Introduce Key Software Optimizations

In case you couldn’t tell from our coverage, some of us around here—particularly your present author—are big fans of Cyberpunk 2077. That’s not only because it’s a legitimately great game these days, but also because it is a showcase for the absolute bleeding edge in graphics technology. That will continue to be the case in coming days as

Source: Hot Hardware – Interview With NVIDIA And CD Projekt Sheds Light on DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction

The fortune tellers at TrendForce predict that NAND flash memory prices are stabilizing and on track to rebound next quarter. That’s good news for suppliers, which are making moves to induce a rebound. For consumers, however, it means SSD pricing is leveling out and could potentially go on an upward swing as we head into 2024. With that in

Source: Hot Hardware – Need More Storage? Check Out These SSD Deals Before NAND Flash Prices Jump Back Up

The thirteenth installment in the long-running Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, is due to release to PC, consoles, and iOS (for the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max) in less than two weeks from now. For those of you who plan to play the game on PC, Ubisoft has revealed a set of system requirements, including what you’ll need to maintain

Source: Hot Hardware – Assassin’s Creed Mirage PC Specs: What You Need To Play In Glorious 4K At 60 FPS

A new leak has revealed that NVIDIA’s future RTX-50 series graphics cards, more specifically the RTX 5090, could receive as much as a 170% performance increase over its RTX 40-series predecessor. The leak highlights key performance increases in several vital areas of NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU architecture, including memory bandwidth, cache

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 5090 Rumored For A 2.9GHz Clock A Massive Memory Bandwidth Upgrade

If you read that headline and aren’t suitably impressed, let us elaborate. Intel’s next launch, looming on the horizon, will be the company’s first chiplet-based (or tile-based) processors, codenamed Meteor Lake. Those chips are coming along with an extensive re-branding effort, at least for Intel’s mobile parts.

After Meteor Lake will

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Demos Lunar Lake Live On Stage At Innovation ’23 Conference

Logitech G has unveiled two new variations to the legendary Yeti mic and its Litra Beam LX light for content creators. The latest additions to Logitech G’s lineup aim to provide broadcast-style audio and pro-level lighting for creators that all work seamlessly with Logitech’s G Hub software.

If anyone asks a seasoned content creator what

Source: Hot Hardware – Logitech G Launches Next-Gen Yeti Mics And Litra Lights To Level Up Your Game Streams

If it doesn’t come directly from the Google Play Store, do not download or install whatever application it is. This simple rule could protect you from malware such as that from the Transparent Tribe, a suspected Pakistani threat actor who is hiding remote access tool (RAT) features inside another application that appears to be legitimate.

The

Source: Hot Hardware – CapraRAT Malware Targets Android Users By Spoofing YouTube, What You Need To Know

You probably already know that AMD’s most recent Radeon GPUs are created using chiplets: a single GCD for graphics and compute, and then between three and six MCDs for memory access and caching. Intel hasn’t released any consumer GPUs using chiplets yet, but its Datacenter GPU Max—that’s the part formerly known as “Ponte Vecchio”—is made from

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series May Adopt Chiplet Design With The Blackwell GPU Arch

Intel’s Meteor Lake architecture for mobile PCs will be arriving soon and to say that Meteor Lake is the most important shift in Intel’s design and manufacturing approach could be an understatement. In fact, Intel has called Meteor Lake the largest architecture shift in the last 40 years, and it will influence designs for a decade…

Source: Hot Hardware – Meteor Lake Architecture Revealed: AI, Tiles And The Future Of Intel Core CPUs

Last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded. The spacecraft’s excursion through the CME gave scientists a new perspective on a 20-year-old theory about the interaction of CMEs with interplanetary dust, which could aid in future space weather predictions.

NASA describes

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Parker Probe Flies Through A Sun Explosion And Emerges With Rare Footage

Netgear has a new flagship wireless router and it’s called the Orbi 970, which is actually a mesh router system based on Wi-Fi 7 (otherwise known as 802.11be). In terms of combined bandwidth, the quad-band Orbi 970 series delivers speeds of up 27Gbps and up to 10,000 square feet of coverage to ensure no dead spots in larger homes.

“We’ve

Source: Hot Hardware – Netgear Orbi 970 Series Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Router Flexes 27Gbps Of Wireless Bandwidth

It took a little while but the cheaper variant of the ASUS ROG Ally outfitted with a non-Extreme version of the Ryzen Z1 SoC is now available and it costs $100 less than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme model we reviewed in June. The arrival of the less expensive SKU comes in the midst of another Steam Deck sale, though, in which Valve’s own handheld

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Ally Base Model Lands At Retail For Less Money But Is It Worth It?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a big hit for Bethesda across all platforms, and one of the biggest was surely Sony’s PlayStation 3. While that system had a rough launch compared to the cheaper Xbox 360, by 2011 it had overtaken Microsoft’s system in sales, and the PlayStation 4 then dominated the Xbox One. We reckon a lot of players played

Source: Hot Hardware – Unsurprisingly, Bethesda’s Next Elder Scrolls Game Will Be Xbox & PC Exclusive

As some iPhone owners await the arrival of their new and shiny iPhone 15, they will have the opportunity to take iOS 17 for a test drive ahead of receiving their new device starting later this week. Apple’s iOS 17 brings new updates to things such as incoming calls, FaceTime, Messages, and AirDrop.

To the surprise of some, the phone app

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple iOS 17 Rolls Out To Supported iPhones And Here Are The Best New Features

No matter what, it’s clear at this point that the way forward for the semiconductor industry is chiplets, or “tiles” in Intel nomenclature. Piling multiple pieces of a processor onto one package brings a lot of challenges, though. One of those is the assembly of the chiplet package itself. Typically, manufacturers use organic substrates as

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel To Use Glass Substrates To Enable 10x Interconnect Density For Multi-Die Processors