Google Confirms An Android 14 Bug Is Wreaking Havoc On Pixel Devices, Fix Incoming

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Google Confirms An Android 14 Bug Is Wreaking Havoc On Pixel Devices, Fix Incoming]( By Nathan Ord on Oct 31, 2023 02:14 pm [Google Confirms An Android 14 Bug Is Wreaking Havoc On Pixel Devices, Fix Incoming]( Over the past few weeks, Pixel owners have encountered an issue that “soft bricks” their devices, locking them out of their apps, media, and other content akin to ransomware attack. However, this issue is not from a threat actor but rather from a bug in Android 14, which has been found to be related to having multiple profiles on a Pixel device. 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What we have here is a patent filed by Nintendo [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Arrow Lake Doc Reveals Different Instruction Sets For Desktop And Laptop CPUs]( By Matthew Connatser on Oct 31, 2023 01:52 pm [Intel Arrow Lake Doc Reveals Different Instruction Sets For Desktop And Laptop CPUs]( While it's normal for desktop and mobile CPUs to differ somewhat, you don't normally expect to see the mobile version of a chip support fewer instructions. According to a Linux kernel commit spotted by Linux enthusiast InstLatX86 though, that's exactly what we're going to see with Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-S (the desktop chips) and [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [ASUS ROG Ally Update Adds AMD HYPR-RX, 900p Support And More To The Gaming Handheld]( By Matthew Connatser on Oct 31, 2023 11:29 am [ASUS ROG Ally Update Adds AMD HYPR-RX, 900p Support And More To The Gaming Handheld]( AMD drivers come with quite a few built-in features, but many of them couldn't be used at the same time until AMD released HYPR-RX last month. Now, HYPR-RX is coming to the ROG Ally with the device's latest update, and it seems like a match made in heaven for this driver feature and ASUS's high-end gaming handheld. While the ROG Ally is [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Sony Reveals Premium Wireless Earbuds For Gamers, PlayStation Link Release Date]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 31, 2023 11:24 am [Sony Reveals Premium Wireless Earbuds For Gamers, PlayStation Link Release Date]( Sony announced its PlayStation Explore wireless earbuds, PlayStation Elite wireless headset, PlayStation Link USB adapter, and its highly anticipated PlayStation Portal remote player. All the new devices will be launched in time for the upcoming Christmas shopping season. While Microsoft may have acquired Activision/Blizzard/King, Sony [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [ADATA Is The First To Release A USB4 External SSD And It's Crazy Fast]( By Thiago Trevisan on Oct 31, 2023 11:21 am [ADATA Is The First To Release A USB4 External SSD And It's Crazy Fast]( One of the best upgrades you can do to your PC is undoubtedly adding a faster storage or system drive. We'd surmise that the first time users tried a fast SSD (NVMe or even SATA), they immediately could tell the difference from their slower spinning hard drive. While the internal storage train has brought us to incredible PCIe Gen 5 speeds [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Will Have A Mind-Boggling 500 Graphics Settings]( By Thiago Trevisan on Oct 31, 2023 10:42 am [Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Will Have A Mind-Boggling 500 Graphics Settings]( The PC is considered one of the best platforms for playing your favorite games, and for good reason. Flexible hardware choice, filled with individual input on the part of the gamer. Want to fine tune your settings for better performance? You got it! You can increase your visual eye candy until you're satisfied, if your hardware can handle [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Minisforum Teases An AMD Hawk Point 3-In-1 Windows Tablet With A 165Hz Display]( By Matthew Connatser on Oct 31, 2023 10:34 am [Minisforum Teases An AMD Hawk Point 3-In-1 Windows Tablet With A 165Hz Display]( Although AMD hasn't said a single word on Ryzen 8000, we're already getting more details on the first device confirmed to use a processor from the upcoming series: Minisforum's 3-in-1 gaming tablet. The initial press release for the V3 focused primarily on the hardware (especially its Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" APU) but not so much on how it [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Smarty Pants AI Search Can Now Solve Your Trig, Calc And Geometry Problems]( By Aaron Leong on Oct 31, 2023 10:29 am [Google Smarty Pants AI Search Can Now Solve Your Trig, Calc And Geometry Problems]( Don't show this to your kids—Google Search and Lens can now solve advanced trigonometry, calculus, geometry, physics, and other science problems. Thanks to improved Search smarts, solving and visualizing challenging formulas or concepts are merely a click away. Mountain View just made its Search and Lens capabilities more potent with a [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NASA Telescope Zooms In On A Crab Nebula, The Haunted Remains Of An Exploded Star]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 31, 2023 10:15 am [NASA Telescope Zooms In On A Crab Nebula, The Haunted Remains Of An Exploded Star]( NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured an enlightening image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that is located 6,500 light-years from Earth. The Crab has been studied since as far back as 1054 CE by 11th-century astronomers. The top image is a side-by-side comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [The Only Thing Scary About These Gaming Laptop Deals Up To 45% Off Is Passing Them Up]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 31, 2023 10:09 am [The Only Thing Scary About These Gaming Laptop Deals Up To 45% Off Is Passing Them Up]( So here's the deal—Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts will arrive in earnest very soon. Retailers are in the habit of pushing out holiday bargains increasingly early every year, so barring a generous return or exchange window, you want to be careful on what you splurge on. That said, there are some tantalizing gaming laptop bargains if [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Western Digital Spins Off Flash Memory Business After Kioxia Merger Talks Fizzle]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 31, 2023 09:20 am [Western Digital Spins Off Flash Memory Business After Kioxia Merger Talks Fizzle]( In a surprise move, Western Digital is splitting its hard disk drive (HDD) and flash memory storage businesses into separate companies, effectively spinning off its solid state drive (SSD) division. The move comes around the eight-year anniversary of when Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk for $19 billion (the deal closed in [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Scary Fast Apple Announces New M3 Chips With Updated MacBook Pro and iMac In Tow]( By Ben Funk on Oct 30, 2023 10:03 pm [Scary Fast Apple Announces New M3 Chips With Updated MacBook Pro and iMac In Tow]( All Hallows' Eve might be when the kids go out trick-or-treating, but the night before — this night — is when we all bob for Apples. In a spooky themed, online-only event, Apple CEO Tim Cook led a cavalcade of corporate VPs announcing a new family of processors named M3 and a series of Macs sporting the latest in Apple Silicon. Let's dispense [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Lenovo Yoga Laptops With Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Inside Pop Up At Retail]( By Zak Killian on Oct 30, 2023 05:33 pm [Lenovo Yoga Laptops With Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Inside Pop Up At Retail]( Back at Innovation '23, Intel announced that its Meteor Lake processors would be officially-launched on December 14th. Despite the fact that they haven't made their debut, Intel's first disaggregated CPUs have already appeared in a few places, including a handheld from Hong Kong as well as in some Lenovo laptops being sold in Bulgaria. 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