Valve Counter Strike 2 Ban Wave Obliterates Seemingly Innocent Accounts

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Valve Counter Strike 2 Ban Wave Obliterates Seemingly Innocent Accounts]( By Nathan Ord on Dec 05, 2023 02:55 pm [Valve Counter Strike 2 Ban Wave Obliterates Seemingly Innocent Accounts]( Counter-Strike 2 has been out for a little while now, providing an updated and perhaps a more fun experience than the former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. However, in the time since the game’s launch, some nefarious players have found way to cheats, which diminishes that experience in general. As such, Valve has had to ratchet up its bans [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Seemingly Backtracks On Slides Comparing AMD's CPU Marketing To Snake Oil]( By Zak Killian on Dec 05, 2023 02:35 pm [Intel Seemingly Backtracks On Slides Comparing AMD's CPU Marketing To Snake Oil]( Have some sympathy for marketers. They're on the front lines of the brand wars, fighting for mindshare as part of the eternal battle for market share. Like any soldiers in a war zone, sometimes marketers make risky decisions if they think it will give them a leg up on the enemy—questionable decisions like "comparing our competitor's product [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Super Nintendo World Theme Park Gets Its First DLC And It's Donkey Kong Country]( By Alan Velasco on Dec 05, 2023 11:21 am [Super Nintendo World Theme Park Gets Its First DLC And It's Donkey Kong Country]( Universal Japan’s Super Nintendo World will be getting its first new area, based on the Donkey Kong Country franchise. This new area will come to the Osaka, Japan based theme park in the Spring of 2024. It will be a space with a lot of greenery, pulling inspiration from the jungle themes found throughout the popular game series. One of [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Carjackers Return Android Phone To Uber Eats Driver Because It Wasn't An iPhone]( By Aaron Leong on Dec 05, 2023 10:40 am [Carjackers Return Android Phone To Uber Eats Driver Because It Wasn't An iPhone]( A couple was sadly robbed and had their truck stolen in a pair of brazen thieves right outside their Washington D.C. apartment. While occurrences like this happen way too often, what's bizarre about this theft was in the midst of the robbing, the perpetrators took one look at the victim's Android phone and decided to give it back. The reason? [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GeForce RTX 4080 Super Breaks Cover In Update To A Popular System Utility]( By Thiago Trevisan on Dec 05, 2023 10:36 am [GeForce RTX 4080 Super Breaks Cover In Update To A Popular System Utility]( You can always leave it to the eagle-eyed gamers to uncover the most subtle hints of new products coming. No, we're not talking about the ridiculously hyped GTA 6 and its treasure trove of surprises. The next best thing is in new hardware tidbits, and in this case, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX Super refresh. While it seems to be no surprise that it [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Webb Space Telescope Captures An Evasive Glowing Monster That Keeps Disappearing]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 05, 2023 10:26 am [Webb Space Telescope Captures An Evasive Glowing Monster That Keeps Disappearing]( Astronomers have identified an object in deep space captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as being an elusive dusty star-forming galaxy. Object AzTECC71 first appeared as a blob from ground-based telescopes before later vanishing completely from Hubble’s view. The image captured by Webb is not the typical image some may be used [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GPU Shipments Rebound In A Big Way To End The Post-Covid Black Death Phenomenon]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 05, 2023 10:11 am [GPU Shipments Rebound In A Big Way To End The Post-Covid Black Death Phenomenon]( By the year 2026, there will be nearly 5 billion graphics chips sitting pretty in PC systems, a figure that includes integrated graphics as found on many AMD and Intel processors. As for discrete GPUs, including add-in boards that gamers jam into their PCI Express slots, market penetration in the PC is expected to achieve 30% within the next [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Logitech's Flagship Astro A50 X Wireless Gaming Headset Plays Nice With PC And Console]( By Alan Velasco on Dec 05, 2023 09:58 am [Logitech's Flagship Astro A50 X Wireless Gaming Headset Plays Nice With PC And Console]( Logitech is launching a new version of its A50 series of gaming headsets with the Astro A50 X. The key selling point for the fifth-generation headset is its compatibility. Gamers will be able to use it on Xbox, PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac. This official compatibility across platforms is rarely seen in headsets, with users usually needing to [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [OnePlus 12 Launches With A Huge Battery And Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Firepower]( By Aaron Leong on Dec 05, 2023 09:53 am [OnePlus 12 Launches With A Huge Battery And Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Firepower]( The OnePlus 12 has officially launched in China in an event celebrating the brand's 10th anniversary. As one of the most anticipated flagship phones, the OnePlus 12 doesn't disappoint, at least on paper—it will be rocking the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with plenty of RAM, storage, and a generous battery pack that should push the phone to the [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Origin PC Neuron Review: Immaculate Gaming Desktop With Muscle]( By Ben Funk on Dec 05, 2023 09:50 am [Origin PC Neuron Review: Immaculate Gaming Desktop With Muscle]( Origin PC Neuron (starts at $2,200, as tested $4,625) Origin's customizable gaming PC has lots of high-powered hardware, an attractive design, and a quiet cooling solution that's up to the challenge. Great attention to detail in build 100% industry standard parts and components Plenty of options in the configurator Excellent gaming performance... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [This NVIDIA Hotfix GPU Driver Solves A Stuttering Issue And A Wonky Discord Bug]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 05, 2023 09:16 am [This NVIDIA Hotfix GPU Driver Solves A Stuttering Issue And A Wonky Discord Bug]( NVIDIA rolled out a new 'Game Ready' GPU driver for GeForce owners this week, version 546.29 WHQL, which brings optimizations to Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (not to be confused with the 2.1 update) and some bug fixes. Since then, however, NVIDIA has made available an optional GPU hotfix—version 546.31—to squash a couple of annoying bugs [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Official Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Filled With Hints Drops Early With Launch Details]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 04, 2023 07:06 pm [Official Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Filled With Hints Drops Early With Launch Details]( Rockstar Games wasn't planning to unveil its highly anticipated first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the next major installment in one of the most popular game franchises of all time, until Tuesday, December 5. Rather than wait, however, Rockstar has released the trailer a day early in response to a now-banned X (formerly Twitter) account [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Cyberpunk 2077's 2.1 Update Adds New Vehicles, Revamped Bosses, Metro Rides, And More]( By Zak Killian on Dec 04, 2023 05:00 pm [Cyberpunk 2077's 2.1 Update Adds New Vehicles, Revamped Bosses, Metro Rides, And More]( When Cyberpunk 2077 got its Phantom Liberty expansion and 2.0 update, CD Projekt Red said that was the end of the line for major content updates to the title. Well, the company appears to have done a little fibbing, because a new trailer just dropped for Update 2.1, and it's coming along with a whole pack of new pieces for the PC's premier [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [A Meteor Lake Laptop Breaks Cover At Retail Ahead Of Intel's Next-Gen CPU Launch]( By Aaron Klotz on Dec 04, 2023 04:30 pm [A Meteor Lake Laptop Breaks Cover At Retail Ahead Of Intel's Next-Gen CPU Launch]( With Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake-based mobile processors launching soon, various design wins are started to leak. This time, an upcoming Samsung laptop was spotted -- the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra --featuring a Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and GeForce RTX 4050 graphics. 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