Hacker Steals Xbox Series X AMD RDNA 2 Source Code, Posts It To GitHub

Here are your Hot Headlines in Tech for today. [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Qualcomm's New Bluetooth Earbud Chips Bring Active Noise Cancelling, Always-On Voice Assistant To The Masses]( By Brandon Hill on Mar 26, 2020 03:14 pm [Qualcomm's New Bluetooth Earbud Chips Bring Active Noise Cancelling, Always-On Voice Assistant To The Masses]( Qualcomm may be well-known for its powerful Snapdragon SoCs and 4G LTE/5G modems that power modern Android smartphones, but the company has a vast portfolio of other communications/audio/computing products as well. Qualcomm is a relatively big name in the audio market where it produces Bluetooth SoCs that power your wireless headsets. The [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Apple Admits To Hideous Retina MacBook Air Anti-Reflective Display Coating Design Defect]( By Brandon Hill on Mar 26, 2020 01:55 pm [Apple Admits To Hideous Retina MacBook Air Anti-Reflective Display Coating Design Defect]( Apple might consider itself to be a company that produces premium hardware that is a notch above garden-variety PCs on the market, but the company has had its fair share of high-profile hardware/design failures in recent years. The most embarrassing stain on Apple’s reputation in recent years is no doubt the troublesome butterfly keyboard, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Huawei's P40 Flagship Phones Flex Big Cameras And Up To 90Hz Displays But No Google Apps]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 26, 2020 01:00 pm [Huawei's P40 Flagship Phones Flex Big Cameras And Up To 90Hz Displays But No Google Apps]( Can an Android smartphone with bleeding edge hardware, fancy cameras, and high-end features be considered a flagship handset if it ships without any Google apps or access to the Play Store? Huawei certainly thinks so, and that is precisely how it is labeling its new P40 series consisting of the P40, P40 Pro, and P40 Pro+. All three models [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Watch Half-Life: Alyx Being Played Sans VR Headset With Just A Mouse And Keyboard]( By Brittany Goetting on Mar 26, 2020 12:05 pm [Watch Half-Life: Alyx Being Played Sans VR Headset With Just A Mouse And Keyboard]( Half-Life: Alyx has only been out for a few days, but many are already claiming that the game is a masterpiece. Many have argued that it is one of the best VR games to date. Unfortunately, many gamers will not be able to experience the game because it is currently only available for VR headsets. But where there is a will, there is a way. Gamers [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Researchers Discover Home Router DNS Attack That Spreads Coronavirus-Themed Malware]( By Shane McGlaun on Mar 26, 2020 12:01 pm [Researchers Discover Home Router DNS Attack That Spreads Coronavirus-Themed Malware]( Researchers at Bitdefender announced the discovery of a new attack that is targeting home routers. In the attack, the DNS settings in the router are changed to redirect the victim to a website that delivers the Oski infostealer malware as the final payload. The most interesting aspect of the malware is that it stores the malicious payload [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Broadband Speeds Largely Holding Firm Across US, But These Cities Faced A 40 Percent COVID-19 Drop]( By Brandon Hill on Mar 26, 2020 11:39 am [Broadband Speeds Largely Holding Firm Across US, But These Cities Faced A 40 Percent COVID-19 Drop]( If you’re one of the millions of Americans stuck at home right now due to COVID-19/coronavirus, some of you may have noticed that your broadband speeds have taken a hit in the past few weeks. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that an influx of workers “telecommuting” instead of working from the office, and children accessing educational [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs Spied In Next-Gen Microsoft Surface Hardware]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 26, 2020 11:30 am [Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs Spied In Next-Gen Microsoft Surface Hardware]( Rumors have been swirling for a while now that Microsoft is planning to introduce a Surface Book 3, and the latest chatter pegs the unveiling for a Spring hardware event in New York City. It would not be a surprise if that ended up happening. What would be somewhat of a surprise, however, is if the Surface Book 3 came armed with an 11th generation [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Folding@home Storms Into ExaFLOP Territory As PC Warriors Battle COVID-19]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 26, 2020 10:21 am [Folding@home Storms Into ExaFLOP Territory As PC Warriors Battle COVID-19]( Just a few days ago, the Folding@home distributed computing project had reached 470 petaFLOPS of cumulative compute power, topping out the output of the seven fastest supercomputers in the world. And now? Thanks to a continued surge in activity from users joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Folding@home has more than doubled [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Microsoft Issues This Fix For Windows Defender Scanning Bug, Download It Now]( By Brandon Hill on Mar 26, 2020 09:37 am [Microsoft Issues This Fix For Windows Defender Scanning Bug, Download It Now]( Microsoft has had more than its fair share of Windows 10 quality control problems over the past few months, with one of the most recent ones relating to its Windows Defender anti-malware software. As we reported earlier this week, users encountered a problem where initiating a system scan would result in Windows Defender failing during both [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Hacker Steals Xbox Series X AMD RDNA 2 Source Code, Posts It To GitHub]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 26, 2020 09:32 am [Hacker Steals Xbox Series X AMD RDNA 2 Source Code, Posts It To GitHub]( AMD has confirmed that some of the source code pertaining to its RDNA 2 graphics architecture used in Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X console and was posted to GitHub by a hacker who stole the data is legitimate, but downplayed the extent of the theft. According to AMD, the "stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security" [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Digg]( [Google Play Movies Could Soon Offer Free Ad-Supported Movie Streaming]( By Shane McGlaun on Mar 26, 2020 08:54 am [Google Play Movies Could Soon Offer Free Ad-Supported Movie Streaming]( There are a bunch of movie streaming services out there for people to choose from to watch movies and TV shows on the go and at home. Google is gearing up to get into the streaming movie segment in a much bigger way with ad-supported free movies. The tip on the free movies comes from an APK teardown. 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