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Microsoft is celebrating the Xbox’s 25th anniversary and plans to release a limited edition Xbox Series X25 sporting the classic translucent green colorway that many fans fondly remember. The celebration isn’t stopping there, though, as...
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Grand Theft Auto VI has suffered from numerous major leaks lately, including the release of the game's full map just two days ago. As promised by the hacker responsible, CyberLeek, more game content has followed, which suggests this...
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How's your Throwback Thursday going? As it happens, we've got a perfect post for you today, thanks to former Intel Performance Architect François Piednoel. Posting on LinkedIn, Piednoel shared an anecdote about his days at Intel as part of...
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Amazon has made its upgraded AI Alexa+ assistant available to all Fire TV device owners in the United States free of charge, no Amazon Prime membership or any kind of monthly subscription needed.
This surprise gift from Bezos elevates...
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With the NFL preseason wrapping up next week, football fans are gearing up for the start of the regular season featuring a Super Bowl LX rematch between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. Ahead of the opening kickoff, Best Buy...
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A $30 million rescue effort has come to an end, dooming NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope to a fiery atmospheric reentry later this year. The observatory had previously suffered major attitude control malfunctions and went into an...
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Chinese quadcopter maker HoverAir (part of Zero Zero Robotics) might have managed to bypass the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) new restrictions on foreign-made drones, launching the HoverAir Versa as a DJI Pocket-like camera with...
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G.Skill has begun dispersing payments related to a class-action lawsuit settlement that was reached earlier this year. If you purchased a kit of G.Skill RAM within the past several years, check your email's spam folder and/or payment app...
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Sennheiser is taking direct aim at the disposable nature of wireless earbuds with its new flagship Momentum True Wireless 5. Priced at $299.95, the fifth-generation earbuds introduce user-replaceable batteries for both the earpieces and...
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Last May, CLEARresult, the agency that operates the popular 80 PLUS power supply certification program, unveiled the new 80 PLUS Ruby tier which drops down on top of the stack with the most stringent certification requirements yet. We...
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Raspberry Pi has announced the release of the Compute Module 5 Programming Jig, which is a “single-head provisioning system that programs your Compute Module 5 with an operating system and security configuration.” Pi users will be happy to...
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Advanced Flow, a new app sideloading option, is rolling out to certified Android 17 devices right now and Google's Android Community Engagement Manager Mishall Rahman has posted an extended guide / announcement to the r/Android subreddit...
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Hardware enthusiasts and regular HotHardware readers will already be well aware that we're eagerly awaiting the next-generation showdown between Intel's Nova Lake processors and AMD's Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs, either very late this year or...
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Google Pixel 11 And Pixel 11 Pro XL - Image: HotHardware Google Pixel 11 Series - Starting At $899, Find It On Amazon Google’s Pixel 11 ($899), Pixel 11 Pro ($1,099), and Pixel 11 Pro XL ($1,299) improve upon last year’s...
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Newly released NASA orbital photos have revealed the final impact spot of the derelict SpaceX rocket stage on the Moon, offering scientists a better look at how artificial collisions can shape the lunar surface.
The Moon obtained a...
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The soaring costs of consoles and PC parts like memory, storage, and graphics cards are gut wrenching, and while we can point an angry finger at AI or corporate greed, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. What does matter, now...
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Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have uncovered a critical security flaw in contactless payment processing that allows expired credit cards to be reanimated and used for fraudulent purchases.
Presented at the USENIX Security 2026 conference, the UMass researchers...
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LG Display has unveiled a breakthrough manufacturing process dubbed FLiPP (FMM-Less innovative Pixel Patterning) that eliminates fine metal masks that have constrained OLED display production for over a decade. Could this be the end of...
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Framework is giving its compact and modular 12.2-inch convertible laptop a substantial performance and efficiency overhaul. The updated Framework Laptop 12 swaps out its original 13th Gen Intel chips in favor of Intel’s latest Core Series...
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Nearly a year after Sony first teased its first foray into standalone desktop audio during a September 2025 State of Play event, the wait is officially coming to an end. Sony has confirmed that its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers will...
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Microsoft nemesis Nightmare-Eclipse is at it again, this time with a bypass exploit for his original RoguePlanet Windows Defender privilege escalation exploit. The new exploit, dubbed ShieldBreak, also allows for elevation of privilege...
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A netizen going by the rather punny name of "Cyberleek" has so far posted up two short videos and an image that appear to be from an in-production build of Grand Theft Auto VI. These leaks are definitely much newer than the previous leaks...
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