Another week, another NVIDIA industry rumor—and unfortunately, this one seems likely to be true, even if it may be worse for some end customers. If the reports are indeed true, NVIDIA will be focusing shipments of its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and 5070 Ti GPUs to the 8GB models in order to maximize cards shipped during the ongoing RAM shortage.

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has officially ended, and with the HotHardware crew back home, it's time to look back on the trip and highlight some of our favorite, stand-out products. As is usually the case, CES 2026 was packed with an array of new technologies, from high-powered AI accelerators to low-power...

Talk about a monumental security lapse: American retail giant Target has found its proprietary source code exposed on the dark web, as current and former employees close to the matter confirm the authenticity of the nearly 900GB data leak that has the company (and not mention the cybersecurity world in general) on high alert. The breach

NASA and the Department of Energy have officially embarked on an ambitious goal to plant a nuclear reactor on the Moon's surface by 2030, which when completed, will have enough output to power multiple lunar households for up to 10 years. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (left) and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (right) meet at

Recent auditing by the folks at market research firm Omdia indicates that the PC market rebounded last year and finished the last quarter of 2025 especially strong. A likely reason for the strong finish is a rush to get ahead of looming price increases caused an AI-driven shortage of memory chips. There's still time to get ahead, though, with

Google is accelerating its hardware timeline once again, according to new reports suggesting the mid-range Pixel 10a could arrive on retail shelves as early as mid-February 2026. According to retail leaks, the Pixel 10a will be dropping on February 17, pushing the launch forward by a full month compared to the Pixel 9a, which debuted in

Acer has filed individual lawsuits against all three major wireless carriers in the United States, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. According to Acer, the three carriers collectively infringed on half a dozen U.S. patents "covering key advancements in cellular networking," and now it's taken them to court after failing to reach a licensing

There have been plenty of twists and turns in NVIDIA's ongoing efforts to resume AI chip shipments to China, the latest of which involves a de facto ban by Beijing. In what could be a move to bolster China's bargaining power, people who are purportedly familiar matter told Reuters that Beijing has instructed customs agents not to permit NVIDIA's

Enthusiast sleuth Gray (@Olrak29_ on Xwitter) has been digging into the shipping logs again, and this time the rabbit hole leads straight into NVIDIA's long-rumored Arm ambitions for consumer PCs. This time around, he spotted a particularly telling entry in NBD Data shipping records, where buried in the usual logistics soup was this rather

GOG’s recent move to become an independent outfit saw the return of one its original cofounders, Michał Kiciński, and promised a continuation of the service its users know and love. Now, Kiciński is sharing what the company hopes to accomplish going forward, including challenging the behemoth of Steam that recently hit a milestone of 42 million

Khadas' latest modular mini PC, the soon-to-launch Mind Pro, will be one of the first Intel Panther Lake-powered Mini PCs on the market. The Khadas Mind Pro is the latest in a series of hyper-compact mini PCs from Khadas, with the Mind 1, Mind 2, and Mind 2S all sharing an identical palm-sized form factor and previous-gen Intel hardware. The

Chinese IP vendor Innosilicon, who we previously reported hitting 10 Gbps with LPDDR5X, has announced the first commercial delivery of its LPDDR6 memory controller and PHY IP, marking an early milestone in the rollout of the next-generation low-power DRAM standard. The company says its LPDDR6/LPDDR5X combo IP has now been shipped to initial

President Donald Trump has announced a breakthrough agreement with Microsoft to shield American households from soaring electricity costs driven by the surging growth of AI server farms.  Over on Truth Social, the President declared that tech giants must "pay their own way" rather than passing the massive energy bills of their data centers

After months of speculation about what partner Apple would choose to work with to improve its floundering AI efforts, there’s finally an agreement in place between Cupertino and Google. The two companies have signed a multi-year deal that will see Apple’s Foundation Models trained by Google’s Gemini models and cloud technologies. In a joint

Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, rainbow-like shock wave surrounding a dead star that technically should not exist. The object, a white dwarf designated RXJ0528+2838 located 730 light-years from Earth, was captured by the VLT that showed the presence of a massive

Every so often, the deal gurus at Woot serve up discounted iPhone models that have been refurbished with a 'Grade-A' rating and backed by a yearlong warranty. Now is one of those times. No, you won't find the iPhone 17 Pro Max (or any iPhone 17 model, for that matter) as part of the sale, but just about everything else is fair game, including

Phishing scammers are getting really good at obtaining your personal information via a sophisticated method called Browser-in-Browser (BitB). To wit, a surge of Facebook BitB attacks are hitting unwitting users, but here's how to detect and avoid becoming a victim. Fake Facebook login portal (Credit: Trellix) Gone are the days of clumsy,

Believe us when we say we're as tired talking about price increases in the consumer sector as you are of hearing about them. Unfortunately, the reality is we're collectively navigating unprecedented waters with uncertainties stemming from tariffs, an AI-driven surge in memory and storage demand, and other factors that are driving up the cost

To our surprise, CES came and went without a roll out of Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh processors that it's hinted about in recent months, though on hindsight it's probably because it wanted Panther Lake to have the spotlight all to itself. Nevertheless, we're one day closer to an Arrow Lake Refresh launch, and also another leaked benchmark

Microsoft is committed to transforming Windows into an AI native operating system, even if a significant portion of its user base hasn’t fully bought into the idea. It’s next move looks to fully integrate its Copilot assistant into File Explorer, according to a few resourceful users who have gone digging into a recent Windows 11 preview build. Copilot

Well, well, well. It turns out AMD does have another Ryzen 9000X3D processor on the way besides the one it didn't announce at its CES 2025 keynote. "Yeah Zak," you're thinking. "It's the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2." That chip is probably still on the way, but it's not the topic of today's post. Instead, we're looking at something Mr. Gray spotted over

The rumor mill is spinning once again, and if what we've heard is true, we could soon see a pricing increase of 6-10% for CPU coolers and power supplies. While this thankfully isn't in the same ballpark as the ongoing RAM crisis or developing NAND shortage, it's still not great news if it proves true. That's still a huge if, though, since

Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows and Office that served as a reliable fallback for users for over two decades. Indeed, the "slui 4" command has up until now been served PC builders, privacy advocates, and IT administrators well since the days of XP. It allowed users to activate a

Panic over soaring memory costs in the second half of last year didn't stop the PC market from rebounding in a big way, with global shipments of desktops, laptops, and workstations surging 10.1% to 59 75 million units in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to Omdia. The last-quarter surge propelled the full-year tally to 279.5 million units