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- No Crying Foul: NBA 2K27 Dunks On Cheaters With Mass Permanent Ban Wave
- NVIDIA Details How DLSS 5 Developer Controls Tame AI Over-Rendering
- Hackers Exploit Critical WordPress Flaw Just Hours After Patch Release
- Sony's 2028 PlayStation Disc Plan May Be Cracking Under Pressure
- Xiaomi 18 Pro Max Debuts With Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 And Split-Screen Privacy Display
- Grab An RTX 5070 Founders Edition Gaming PC For $1,549 At Walmart
- Nikon Debuts Z5IIc Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera Built For Budget Creators
- Steam Frame Teardown Finds Modular VR Design A Breeze Until You Hit The Fan
- Microsoft Surface Pro 12 And Laptop 13 Gain Snapdragon X2 Plus Firepower
- Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 Brings AI Agents To Your Earbuds
- Xbox Helix Leak Tips 56 TFLOPS GPU To Overpower PS6 By 40%
- Discord Pushes Age Checks With AI Facial Scans Despite User Resistance
- Microsoft Survey Hints Next-Gen Xbox Could Keep Physical Discs Alive
- ShinyHunters Taunts FBI With Claimed 3TB Data Theft Of Agent Records
- GeForce RTX 5090 Signed By NVIDIA CEO Jensen Goes To Auction, Could Fetch $15K
- Scientists Confirm First Direct Radio Signal Detected From Alien World
- Motorola Signature 27 Taps Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 To Take On Galaxy Flagships
- Beats 360 Flagship Packs 1.75x Better ANC And A 32-Hour Battery For $350
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Crushes Benchmarks With Big Gains
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Hits 5GHz With Neural Fusion Gaming, Wi-Fi 8
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All News for September 2026
Developer 2K Games is done giving warnings. Following up on a pledge made back in August, the studio just unleashed a barrage of permanent bans on NBA 2K27 players who have been caught cheating. It's another salvo in the wider war against...
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NVIDIA just published a new developer-focused blog post detailing how game makers can control DLSS 5's 3D-guided neural rendering, and while most of the information in the post will be familiar to anyone who has been following DLSS 5...
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If you, your business, or someone you know rely on the use of WordPress in any way, applying patches immediately is essential to prevent possible compromise by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack. To be specific, security company...
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Fans of physical game releases, don't give up hope yet, because there are rays of sunshine peeking through the dark clouds of the all-digital future. First, it got out that Microsoft was surveying fans about supporting game discs with its...
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At the Snapdragon Summit, we were there as Xiaomi unveiled its newest flagship smartphones, the Xiaomi 18 Pro and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max that run on the all-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series, massive silicon-carbon battery upgrades, and trick...
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As part of its ongoing GeForce Week sales event, Walmart is offering a big discount on a prebuilt gaming desktop equipped with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070, making it one of the lowest prices we've seen for a system with this GPU. Also...
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Nikon has dropped the Z5 IIC, a revised viewfinder-less full-frame mirrorless over last year's Z5II with one clear mission: to give content creators something with the ease of smartphone photography and the power of higher-end digital...
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Valve’s long-awaited standalone virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, not only finally launched this month, it also made it onto the dissection table. In its latest teardown, the folks at iFixit put the newly launched hardware under...
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Microsoft is expanding its Arm-powered PC lineup with fresh internal upgrades for its most portable form factors. Announced at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company is refreshing both the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop...
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Qualcomm has made a series of announcements this week at its annual Snapdragon Summit event in Maui, Hawaii, the newest of which is the unveiling of its Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 platform. Purpose-built for next-generation audio devices...
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Over on the NeoGAF forums, which are popular among gaming industry insiders, credible leaker Kepler_L2 appeared in a thread claiming that the PlayStation 6 would have performance surpassing NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080, citing support for dual-issue compute as the reason why. Kepler did not back...
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Do you use Discord? If you read this website, there's a pretty good chance that you do. The massive centralized chat service is extremely popular among young people and gamers, and many open source projects have moved fully to Discord for...
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Sony has caught a lot of flak from fans after it announced that it’s no longer going to be producing game discs for its PlayStation consoles beyond January 2028. Microsoft, meanwhile, is taking a different approach with the Xbox. It just...
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A notorious extortion group claims to have pulled off one of the most audacious cyberattacks in recent memory by allegedly breaching the Federal Bureau of Investigation and stealing about 3TB worth of records belonging to thousands of...
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Imagine scoring a top-tier graphics card on the secondhand market, then later finding out that not only was it a good deal, but a spectacular bargain because the markings on it are the signature of NVIDIA's famed CEO, Jensen Huang. That is...
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Scientists have detected direct, localized radio emissions from an exoplanet for the very first time. But don't call the Space Force and White House hotline just yet—these signals are not alien communications.
Centered on the young gas...
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Motorola is taking a big swipe at Samsung’s dominance in the premium smartphone segment with the unveiling of the Motorola Signature 27 at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. This device will be packing serious new hardware, such as the...
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Apple-owned Beats has unveiled the Beats 360, an all-new flagship set of over-ear wireless headphones priced at $349.99. Sitting right above the Studio Pro in the brand’s lineup, the new cans take direct aim at high-end competitors like...
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At the 2026 Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui, the stars of the show are two new SoCs: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. In addition, to deep dive briefings, we here at Hot Hardware were not only lucky...
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Today at its Snapdragon Summit event, Qualcomm is launching its next-generation flagship smartphone silicon with not one, but two new members of the Snapdragon 8 Elite family. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite...
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is the midst of a big reset as outlined earlier this year when the company laid off hundreds of employees and shed several smaller studios. The next phase of this shakeup is now in motion and will see more...
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According to patent documents originally spotted by Respawn First, Microsoft is studying ways to enhance in-game advertisement solutions. Specifically, Microsoft showcased a context-aware ad system that times ad interruptions to specific...
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