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Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has released a Claude-assisted 'DoomPaint' port of the legendary game based on ViZDoom, playable within MS Paint. hothardware.com/news/doom-ju...
Doom Just Found Its Weirdest New Home: Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has released a Claude-assisted 'DoomPaint' port of the legendary game based on ViZDoom, playable within MS Paint.
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This upcoming Intel Diamond Rapids Xeon CPU has just 32 cores, yet nearly as much L3 cache as the top current-generation Xeon 6 parts. hothardware.com/news/intel-d...
Intel Diamond Rapids Xeon 7 CPU Leaks With Massive 240MB L3 Cache
This upcoming Intel Diamond Rapids Xeon CPU has just 32 cores, yet nearly as much L3 cache as the top current-generation Xeon 6 parts.
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Microsoft has been slow to bring games from its back catalog to the Switch 2, but fan favorites Minecraft and Diablo IV are coming soon. hothardware.com/news/minecra...
Minecraft Hits Switch 2 In October, Is A Diablo IV Port Next?
Microsoft has been slow to bring games from its back catalog to the Switch 2, but fan favorites Minecraft and Diablo IV are coming soon.
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Viture has released the Pro 2 XR glasses, bringing with it a 146-inch-equivalent display image to your face for not a lot of money and weight. hothardware.com/news/viture-...
Viture Pro 2 XR Glasses Deliver A Virtual 146-Inch Screen For $299
Viture has released the Pro 2 XR glasses, bringing with it a 146-inch-equivalent display image to your face for not a lot of money and weight.
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Using the world’s most powerful solar observatory, astronomers have captured the sharpest images of the Sun’s surface ever. hothardware.com/news/sharpes...
Sharpest-Ever Images Of The Sun Reveal A Violent Hidden Secret
Astronomers have captured the sharpest images of the Sun’s surface ever, uncovering a dynamic, microscopic fluid process that addresses some of solar physics’ longest-standing mysteries.
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Wow, that's a lot of bread! It also highlights a growing confrontation between tech conglomerates and communities across the country as the AI race accelerates. hothardware.com/news/kentuck...
Kentucky Woman Turns Down $26 Million AI Data Center Cash For Farm
An anonymous tech firm offered a Northern Kentucky family $26 million, or nearly ten times market value, for half of their family farm to build a massive AI data center, only to be flatly rejected.
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Fans of foldables are in good shape, and judging by Samsung's preorder data, there are indeed a lot of fans. hothardware.com/news/samsung...
Samsung Galaxy Z8 Lineup Smashes Preorder Record For Foldables
Samsung reports global preorders for the new Galaxy Z Fold 8, Ultra, and Z Flip 8 are up 30%, pacing to shatter previous company folding phone records.
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Rockstar Games is breaking convention by partnering with Netflix for an extended GTA 6 showcase, giving fans an in-depth look at the year's most anticipated release. hothardware.com/news/gta-6-e...
GTA 6 Extended Look Teased For Netflix Ahead Of Game Launch
Rockstar announces Grand Theft Auto VI: Extended Look, a special Netflix streaming event premiering on August 26, 2026, ahead of the game's November launch.
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The new Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen) bring Ultra-tier features like spatial audio, custom EQ modes, and USB-C listening to a sub-$400 price tag. hothardware.com/news/bose-ov...
Bose Overhauls QuietComfort 2nd Gen With Major Upgrades For $359
The new Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen) bring Ultra-tier features like spatial audio, custom EQ modes, and USB-C listening to a sub-$400 price tag.
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At FMS 2026, Samsung unveiled its vision for the future of 3D stacked memory and storage, dubbed zHBM. hothardware.com/news/samsung...
Samsung's zHBM 3D Memory Concept Forecasts 8X Speed Over HBM5
At FMS 2026, Samsung unveiled its vision for the future of 3D stacked memory and storage.
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Corsair's latest PC peripherals offer are affordable options for anyone shopping for full-featured gaming keyboards and mice. hothardware.com/news/corsair...
Corsair Expands Peripheral Line With Keyboards And Mice For Everyday Gamers
Corsair's latest PC peripherals offer are affordable options for anyone shopping for full-featured gaming keyboards and mice.
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RPCS3 developer Whatcookie reveals new optimizations for Arm processors, which enable average 60% performance and 25% efficiency boosts. hothardware.com/news/rpcs3-u...
RPCS3 Update Boosts PS3 Emulation Performance On Arm-Powered Handhelds
RPCS3 developer Whatcookie reveals new optimizations for Arm processors, which enable average 60% performance and 25% efficiency boosts.
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ASUS' new ROG Swift display with a blazing 500Hz refresh rate is a fancier version of its existing ROG Strix XG27AQDPR, with a cooler chassis and a tripod mount. hothardware.com/news/asus-ro...
ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQDPR Brings 500Hz Speed To QD-OLED
ASUS' new ROG Swift display with a blazing 500Hz refresh rate is a fancier version of its existing ROG Strix XG27AQDPR, with a cooler chassis and a tripod mount.
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A public Wi-Fi phishing campaign dubbed CaptiveCrunch has caught Microsoft's attention due to its scope and sophistication. hothardware.com/news/microso...
Microsoft Warns Hotel Wi-Fi Portals Are Under Active Attack
A public Wi-Fi phishing campaign dubbed CaptiveCrunch has caught Microsoft's attention due to its scope and sophistication.
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Ford Racing is giving us a glimpse at its return to top-level endurance racing by pushing its new 5.4-liter naturally aspirated V8 through a sonorous (simulated) lap of Le Mans on a test dyno. hothardware.com/news/hear-fo...
Hear Ford's Le Mans V8 Deliver An Engine Symphony At 9,000 RPM
Ford Racing is giving us a glimpse at its return to top-level endurance racing by pushing its new 5.4-liter naturally aspirated V8 through a sonorous (simulated) lap of Le Mans on a test dyno.
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SpaceX set off some financial fireworks in the markets after reporting a surge in quarterly revenue alongside an exclusive hardware commitment with NVIDIA. hothardware.com/news/nvidia-...
NVIDIA Wins Exclusive SpaceX Pact For Space-Based AI Servers
SpaceX set off some financial fireworks in the markets after reporting a surge in quarterly revenue alongside an exclusive hardware commitment with NVIDIA.
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Kioxia unveils its GP1 'Super High IOPS' PCIe 6.0 SSDs, leveraging XL-Flash as Storage Class Memory to deliver 10 million IOPS for direct GPU access. hothardware.com/news/kioxia-...
Kioxia GP1 PCIe 6.0 SSD Feeds Hungry AI Workloads At 10M IOPS
Kioxia unveils its GP1 'Super High IOPS' PCIe 6.0 SSDs, leveraging XL-Flash as Storage Class Memory to deliver 10 million IOPS for direct GPU access.
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Apple CarPlay and Android Auto: "Boats and roads, boats and roads, gotta have me my boats and roads!" 🎵 hothardware.com/news/apple-c...
Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Hit The Water In Pontoon Boat Expansion
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are expanding from the asphalt to open water.
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AMD posts record Q2 revenue of $11.5B, powered by a 107% surge in data center sales across EPYC CPUs and Instinct AI accelerators. 💪 hothardware.com/news/amd-rev...
AMD Revenue Hits Record High Amid 2X Data Center Sales Surge
AMD posts record Q2 revenue of $11.5B, powered by a 107% surge in data center sales across EPYC CPUs and Instinct AI accelerators.
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Memory prices are so high that even Microsoft is backpedaling on 32GB RAM advice. hothardware.com/news/microso...
Microsoft Quietly Scrubs 32GB RAM Guidance For Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft removed its Windows 11 gaming guide praising 32GB RAM as rising memory costs make 8GB budget PCs harder to sell.
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Apple sued OpenAI over stolen trade secrets, but OpenAI says that the computer manufacturer's process was uncharacteristically sloppy. hothardware.com/news/openai-...
OpenAI Blasts 'Careless' Apple Lawsuit In Fiery Public Response
Apple sued OpenAI over stolen trade secrets, but OpenAI says that the computer manufacturer's process was uncharacteristically sloppy.
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Samsung in banning Smart TV apps that secretly use your network, following a discovery that revealed a Pac-Man port was doing some shady things. hothardware.com/news/samsung...
Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Secretly Share Home Internet
Samsung in banning Smart TV apps that secretly use your network, following a discovery that revealed a Pac-Man port was doing some shady things.
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A leaked Microsoft Xbox roadmap confirms expanded backward compatibility for Xbox 360 games and that Disc To Digital will launch later this month. hothardware.com/news/microso...
Microsoft's Leaked Xbox 360 PC Plan Could Change Game Preservation
A leaked Microsoft Xbox roadmap confirms expanded backward compatibility for Xbox 360 games and that Disc To Digital will launch later this month.
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The new technology isn't set to replace HBM or DDR memory, but rather complement them in a tiered storage scheme for rapid AI inference with huge models. hothardware.com/news/sk-hyni...
SK Hynix And SanDisk Unleash High-Bandwidth Flash To Fix AI Bottlenecks
The new technology isn't set to replace HBM or DDR memory, but rather complement them in a tiered storage scheme for rapid AI inference with huge models.
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If you ever service, repair or maintain PCs or other electronic devices, you'll want this assortment of tools and gadgets in your arsenal. hothardware.com/news/7-essen...
7 Essential Gadgets Every PC Repair Guru Should Own
If you ever service, repair or maintain PCs or other electronic devices, you'll want this assortment of tools and gadgets in your arsenal.
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Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered three novel post-compromise attack vectors that allow local malware on Windows PCs to quietly hijack Google-synced passkeys, bypassing biometric checks, and PIN prompts. hothardware.com/news/google-...
Google Synced Passkeys Can Be Hijacked By Malware In New Attack
Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered three novel post-compromise attack vectors that allow local malware on Windows PCs to quietly hijack Google-synced passkeys,…
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Mark your calendars and prepare your travel itineraries, because on August 2, 2027, some parts of the world will witness a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse. hothardware.com/news/start-p...
Start Planning Now For The Upcoming Solar Eclipse Of The Century
Mark your calendars and prepare your travel itineraries, because on August 2, 2027, some parts of the world will witness a special solar eclipse.
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Some fantastic PC gaming deals are live at Woot right now, including $900 off MSI's RTX 5070 gaming desktop and Samsung's massive 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 dual 4K monitor for 38% off. hothardware.com/news/msi-gam...
MSI Gaming PC With RTX 5070 And 32GB DDR5 Drops To $1,399 At Woot
Woot drops MSI's Codex R2 desktop to $1,399, packing an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
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The Trump administration is drafting a new federal policy to halt imports of Chinese-made data center components, escalating Washington’s intent on walling off the physical infrastructure powering the American AI boom from foreign security threats. hothardware.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Admin Prepares Massive Ban On Chinese Data Center Tech
The Trump administration is drafting a new federal policy to halt imports of Chinese-made data center components, escalating Washington’s intent on walling off the physical infrastructure powering…
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TCL just released its TAB A1 Plus NXTPAPER with a 12.2-inch anti-glare 120Hz screen, Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 CPU, and a $299 introductory deal that bundles some extras. hothardware.com/news/tcl-tab...
TCL TAB A1 Plus NXTPAPER Is Coming For Apple iPad's Lunch Money
TCL releases the TAB A1 Plus NXTPAPER with a 12.2-inch anti-glare 120Hz screen, Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 CPU, and a $299 introductory deal.
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