Counter-Strike 2 Patch Intros A Key Matchmaking Change To Combat Cheaters

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Counter-Strike 2 Patch Intros A Key Matchmaking Change To Combat Cheaters]( By Zak Killian on Sep 28, 2023 02:38 pm [Counter-Strike 2 Patch Intros A Key Matchmaking Change To Combat Cheaters]( That's right: the game came out yesterday, and it's already getting major patches. Of course, while Counter-Strike 2 officially launched yesterday, replacing CS:GO on Steam, it has been in active development and semi-open beta for some months. The big patch yesterday for the release made an incredible number of changes to the game, but buried [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Core i7-14700KF 20-Core CPU Flirts With 6GHz In Leaked Benchmark]( By Mark Tyson on Sep 28, 2023 02:19 pm [Intel Core i7-14700KF 20-Core CPU Flirts With 6GHz In Leaked Benchmark]( A Geekbench score which appears to have been run by a system packing an Intel 14th Gen Core 'Raptor Lake Refresh' CPU has been spotted online. The headlining Core i7-14700KF processor is particularly interesting, as the i7-14700 products are expected to deliver the most meaningful upgrades over current gen parts. Moreover, the purported Intel [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA Shows GeForce And Reflex Obliterating Counter-Strike 2 Latency]( By Zak Killian on Sep 28, 2023 12:39 pm [NVIDIA Shows GeForce And Reflex Obliterating Counter-Strike 2 Latency]( Counter-Strike in all of its forms has some of the most hardcore players of any game out there. These are people who want the game to be running at hundreds of FPS above their screen refresh for the infinitesimal input latency benefit that it gives. In that context, it's kind of crazy that the brand-new Counter-Strike 2 is the first entry [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [PlayStation Head Jim Ryan Levels-Up To Retirement After Nearly 30 Years At Sony]( By Tim Sweezy on Sep 28, 2023 12:24 pm [PlayStation Head Jim Ryan Levels-Up To Retirement After Nearly 30 Years At Sony]( Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan has announced he will retire in March 2024. In an open letter from Ryan, he expressed his gratitude and pride in what the company had been able to achieve during his tenure. Ryan remarked that he did not decide to retire lightly after being with the company for nearly 30 years. He [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Study Discovers M87* Black Hole Is Spinning Like An Amazing Oscillating Jet.]( By Tim Sweezy on Sep 28, 2023 11:20 am [Study Discovers M87* Black Hole Is Spinning Like An Amazing Oscillating Jet.]( An international team of researchers has published a new paper confirming a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun indeed spins. The study, led by Chinese researcher Dr. CUI Yuzhu, was conducted using a global network of radio telescopes. Supermassive black holes at the center of active galaxies can accrete [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Samsung SSD 990 Pro 4TB Review: Big, Fast Storage For PCs And PS5]( By Marco Chiappetta on Sep 28, 2023 11:00 am [Samsung SSD 990 Pro 4TB Review: Big, Fast Storage For PCs And PS5]( Samsung SSD 990 Pro: Starting At $69, 4TB - $334 MSRP Samsung has boosted the SSD 990 Pro series cpacaity to 4TB, while maximizing performance in PCIe Gen 4 systems. High Capacity Strong All-Around Performance Single-Sided Relatively Low Power Good Endurance PCIe Gen 5 SSDs Have Arrived Middling Game Level Loads Late last month, Samsung... 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Housed in its original Byte Shop case made from Hawaiian koa wood (which is also rare), this piece of computing history could fetch the owner a staggering $1.5 million, assuming it sells for the full [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Maingear Is Inciting A Revolt With Its New Compact Gaming PC Packing Up To An RTX 4090]( By Paul Lilly on Sep 28, 2023 08:30 am [Maingear Is Inciting A Revolt With Its New Compact Gaming PC Packing Up To An RTX 4090]( In case you missed it, Maingear recently unveiled a 'Drops' program in which the boutique system builder looks to dive "back into our roots" with preconfigured systems based on the hottest hardware (something we can obviously get behind at HotHardware), as well as limited edition runs. Though the program is only a month old, Maingear is already [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Starfield DLSS 3 Mod Creator Fires Back At Pirates For Cracking DRM Paywall]( By Aaron Klotz on Sep 27, 2023 05:27 pm [Starfield DLSS 3 Mod Creator Fires Back At Pirates For Cracking DRM Paywall]( DLSS 3 modder PureDark has issued a response to pirates who cracked his DLSS 3 DRM paywall, enabling users to use PureDark’s frame generation mod for free in Starfield. The modder states that in the future, his mod will feature “hidden mines” that will make his mods buggy if the DRM is broken, making it much more difficult for pirates to use [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 Ushers In Next Gen XR Starting With The Meta Quest 3]( By Nathan Ord on Sep 27, 2023 04:25 pm [Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 Ushers In Next Gen XR Starting With The Meta Quest 3]( Today, Meta announced its next generation of VR headset, with the Meta Quest 3 starting at $499.99 and releasing on October 10th. While the device is interesting, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 under the hood powering this headset is even more interesting possibly, for those of us that work with silicon engines, and it opens the door [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Researchers Discover A Startling Side-Channel Exploit On All GPUs, Even Integrated]( By Nathan Ord on Sep 27, 2023 03:40 pm [Researchers Discover A Startling Side-Channel Exploit On All GPUs, Even Integrated]( Side channel attacks are always fascinating to see how they are executed, such as the recent discovery that encryption keys could be stolen by recording power LEDs on various devices. 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