Sweeney Says Epic Won't Bring Fortnite To Steam Deck Until Linux Beats Down Cheaters

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Sweeney Says Epic Won't Bring Fortnite To Steam Deck Until Linux Beats Down Cheaters]( By Zak Killian on Feb 08, 2022 02:57 pm [Sweeney Says Epic Won't Bring Fortnite To Steam Deck Until Linux Beats Down Cheaters]( Love it or hate it, Fortnite is still one of the most-played games on the internet. Like most living titles that hang around a few years, it's expanded considerably beyond the bare-bones battle royale experience that catapulted the formerly co-op game into the limelight. The game is available on just about every platform, but there's a certain [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Claims Forcing 2FA On 150M User Accounts Led To 50 Percent Fewer Hijacks]( By Nathan Wasson on Feb 08, 2022 02:55 pm [Google Claims Forcing 2FA On 150M User Accounts Led To 50 Percent Fewer Hijacks]( Back in May of last year, we reported on a new campaign by Google to increase account security through a number of methods. As part of this campaign, Google announced its plans to push people to use two-factor authentication (2FA), saying that users whose accounts are appropriately configured would begin to be automatically enrolled in 2FA. Then, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [MSI MEG Z690 Godlike Motherboard For Alder Lake Is Available To Mere Mortals For $2,099]( By Paul Lilly on Feb 08, 2022 02:01 pm [MSI MEG Z690 Godlike Motherboard For Alder Lake Is Available To Mere Mortals For $2,099]( You don't actually need to be a god (or like a god) to own MSI's new flagship motherboard, the MEG Z690 Godlike (the same that appeared in a photo shoot two months ago), but you will have summon a large bag of cash. Going all out on this bad boy will set you back a cool $2,099. However, that's really a bundle price that also includes MSI's [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Microsoft Finally Figured Out A Way To Protect Office From Malware Macros]( By Lane Babuder on Feb 08, 2022 01:25 pm [Microsoft Finally Figured Out A Way To Protect Office From Malware Macros]( Since their beginning, macros in Office applications have been both a blessing and a curse for users and system administrators alike. The feature causes significant security woes due to many methods of exploitation in the macro system. Now Microsoft has stated that its popular productivity suite is getting extra layers of security to keep [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Windows 11 Adoption Among Gamers Continues To Swell As Windows 10 Loses More Steam]( By Paul Lilly on Feb 08, 2022 01:03 pm [Windows 11 Adoption Among Gamers Continues To Swell As Windows 10 Loses More Steam]( The number of gamers on Steam who are running Windows 11 has grown quite a bit in the past two months, according to the latest Steam hardware and software survey. At this rate, it is conceivable Windows 11 will overtake Windows 10 for the top spot by the end of the year, though it will be interesting to see what Valve's Steam Deck handheld [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Itch.io Game Store Warns NFTs Are A Money Stealing Scam And Destroy The Planet]( By Tim Sweezy on Feb 08, 2022 12:00 pm [Itch.io Game Store Warns NFTs Are A Money Stealing Scam And Destroy The Planet]( As the world of NFTs grows in popularity, there are still some who have not bought into the latest craze. Indie game marketplace Itch.io is one of them, and asks you reevaluate your life if you think NFTs are a good thing. It seems more and more people are buying into the concept of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). But it isn't just individuals [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Sony Xperia 5 iii Review: Petite Android Phone With Camera Chops]( By Myriam Joire on Feb 08, 2022 11:38 am [Sony Xperia 5 iii Review: Petite Android Phone With Camera Chops]( For a few years now, Sony’s been making premium, feature-rich, media-centric, flagship smartphones that incorporate technologies from its Alpha cameras, and target die-hard Sony customers. This niche strategy appears to be working for the company, as it continues to bring new handsets to market. In 2021, Sony launched the Xperia Pro... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Wordle Running On Game Boy Looks Like It Was Made For The Popular Handheld]( By Paul Lilly on Feb 08, 2022 11:37 am [Wordle Running On Game Boy Looks Like It Was Made For The Popular Handheld]( The original Game Boy ranks Nintendo's second-most popular piece of gaming hardware to date, behind only the Nintendo DS. There have been nearly 119 million units sold of the ridiculous popular handheld, and over half a billion software unit sales. We have to think that both numbers could have been even higher had Wordle existed at the time. Wordle [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [This Mars Surface Photo Has People Freaking Out With Claims Of Alien Life]( By Brittany Goetting on Feb 08, 2022 11:26 am [This Mars Surface Photo Has People Freaking Out With Claims Of Alien Life]( Do aliens, specifically humanoid beings, live on Mars? While many people would answer this question with a definitive no, others are hopeful that life forms will be found on the Red Planet. Some claim that an image of the Martian surface clearly depicts a humanoid life form. The rumors of alien life appear to have originally come from a [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Watch SpaceX's Out-Of-Control Falcon 9 Booster Live On A Lunar Collision Course]( By Tim Sweezy on Feb 08, 2022 10:57 am [Watch SpaceX's Out-Of-Control Falcon 9 Booster Live On A Lunar Collision Course]( The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in 2015 is on a collision course with the Moon. You can watch live later today as it makes its closest pass of the Earth on its way to eventually crashing into our Moon. NASA recently announced that the International Space Station (ISS) has been funded through the rest of this [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022 Is Headed To The Metaverse, When And How To Watch]( By Paul Lilly on Feb 08, 2022 10:43 am [Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022 Is Headed To The Metaverse, When And How To Watch]( There will be plenty of places to watch Samsung's next big Galaxy Unpacked event live as it unfolds, including several streaming locations across places like Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube (to name just a few of many). In addition, you can watch Samsung its next-generation flagship smartphone (presumably the Galaxy S22) in the metaverse. Yes, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Religious Leaders Pen Letter To Zuckerberg Extolling The Evils Of Instagram For Kids]( By Brittany Goetting on Feb 08, 2022 10:14 am [Religious Leaders Pen Letter To Zuckerberg Extolling The Evils Of Instagram For Kids]( Many people argue that social media is bad for a child’s mental and emotional development. However, how does social media impact a child’s spiritual growth? A group of over 70 religious leaders have written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking the company to entirely abandon its plans for an Instagram Kids. They insist that Instagram [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA Calls Off Arm Deal As Softbank Preps For Biggest IPO In Semiconductor History]( By Paul Lilly on Feb 08, 2022 09:46 am [NVIDIA Calls Off Arm Deal As Softbank Preps For Biggest IPO In Semiconductor History]( NVIDIA is officially out of the running to acquire Arm from Softbank for $40 billion, which would have been the largest chip deal ever. Faced with mounting regulatory challenges, NVIDIA and Softbank agreed to terminate the pending transaction, and the latter will now pivot to prepping for a public offering that could likewise be the "biggest [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [CISA Urgently Warns To Patch This Active Security Flaw In Windows 11, 10 And Windows Server]( By Nathan Wasson on Feb 07, 2022 05:26 pm [CISA Urgently Warns To Patch This Active Security Flaw In Windows 11, 10 And Windows Server]( We reported a week ago on a security vulnerability in Windows that multiple publicly available exploits can leverage to gain elevated privileges. We advised readers to apply the patch for this vulnerability as soon as possible, and now the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is ordering federal agencies to apply the patch [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel's MCM Design Patent Could Be A Sneak Peek At Future Arc Gaming GPUs]( By Zak Killian on Feb 07, 2022 04:53 pm [Intel's MCM Design Patent Could Be A Sneak Peek At Future Arc Gaming GPUs]( Here's a processor primer for novices: classical computing workloads are largely "serial", meaning they go through problems A, to, B, to C, in a series. CPUs have historically been designed through the years to be better and better at this kind of workload. More and more, though, we're also doing parallel work, which is to say workloads that [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA's Monstrous GH100 Hopper GPU Might Pack More Than 140 Billion Transistors]( By Zak Killian on Feb 07, 2022 03:09 pm [NVIDIA's Monstrous GH100 Hopper GPU Might Pack More Than 140 Billion Transistors]( In case you haven't been following high-performance computing (HPC) news, NVIDIA is sort of ruling the roost lately. Its massively-parallel processing engines like GV100 and GA100 are the fastest chips around for computing many types of crunchy math operations, big data analytics, AI etc. They achieve that supreme speed in-part by simply being [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( Recent Articles: [SSD Storage Deals Bring Sweet Savings Up To 43 Percent Off Crucial, SK Hynix, WD And More]( [Microsoft Claims Hololens Is Doing Great Actually And Is Critical To Its Metaverse Plan]( [Google Accused Of Rigging Search Results In Hefty $2.4B Lawsuit]( [Biden Praises $52B House Bill To Supercharge Chip Manufacturing In The US]( [This ASUS ROG Keycap Is The GPU Bling Your Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Needs]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [YouTube]( [Pinterest]( Copyright © 2022 Hot Hardware, Inc., All rights reserved. You're receiving this because you opted in to our list at HotHardware.com or are an industry partner. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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