Hardware

It’s only been a few months since TCL introduced its QM6K series TVs (at the Consumer Electronics Show in January), the first in its extensive lineup to feature the company’s ‘Precise Dimming’ technology, and it’s already old news. The newer kid on the block is the QM7K series, the second in its Precise Dimming lineup with some notable upgrades. As with the QM6K, the new QM7K models are quantum dot mini LED (QD-mini LED) models.

Researchers have uncovered a proprietary undocumented command in Chinese manufacturer Espressif’s ESP32 chips that could be exploited, to the potential detriment of millions of users. The ESP32 chip allows connectivity through Wifi or Bluetooth and can be found in millions of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. At RootedCON, a notable Spanish cybersecurity conference in Madrid, Miguel Tarascó and Antonio Vázquez, researchers at Tarlogic, presented their discovery of commands within the ESP32 that could grant access

If you were frustrated by an inability to doomscroll Xwitter on your lunch break, don’t worry, you’re not alone. The site has been suffering intermittent connectivity issues all morning. What’s the deal? Did Musk forget to pay some bills? Has X’s famously skeletonized staff failed to keep the ship righted? Is the Internet at large dying? According to the X-Tesla-Starlink-SpaceX man himself, the site has actually been weathering the effects of “a massive cyberattack” today.

The current console cycle is mature enough that rumors have begun swirling regarding the next generation. There’s already been some rumblings about the PlayStation 6, and now there’s some potential information about what the next Xbox will have in store for fans, by way of Windows Central’s Jez Corden. During the XboxTwo Podcast, Corden remarked about the likely path Microsoft will take for its next console. He says that “the whole idea of the next Xbox

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach perhaps has become a bit of an afterthought, with so much attention on the speculation surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI and the sales success of Monster Hunter Wilds. However, the game has managed to recapture the zeitgeist after its latest trailer, which was directed by the legendary game developer Hideo Kojima himself, dropped during a panel at the SXSW festival going on in Austin, TX right now. The Pre-order

NVIDIA’s team of driver engineers continue to try and eradicate reported black screen issues on its GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, and perhaps earlier generation models too. We’ve seen these efforts play out in the past several driver releases, including both regular ‘Game Ready’ releases and also out-of-band hotfixes. Pertaining to the latter, there’s another one available. The new 572.75 hotfix driver is based on the Game Ready 572.70 driver package that NVIDIA released

A shipping manifest spotted by X/Twitter user @harukaze5719 suggests that NVIDIA is getting around to announced a new generation of workstation graphics cards based on its Blackwell architecture, the same one powering its elusive (at retail) GeForce RTX 50 series lineup. The manifest highlights two models, including the RTX Pro 6000 X Blackwell and RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (non-X). For anyone who doesn’t follow the professional graphics market, NVIDIA retired its Quadro branding back in

Nevermind the fact that the overwhelming majority of consumer desktop tasks don’t really scale past four to six cores—fanboys have accused AMD of “stagnating” much as Intel did in years past, by having its top-end Ryzen desktop CPUs max out at sixteen cores for four successive generations. That period may be over soon, though, at least if regular leaker zhangzhonghao over at ChipHell has good info. Click or tap this if you can’t read it.

By many accounts, AMD’s much-anticipated retail launch of its Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 went a little more smoothly compared to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 series, in terms of day-one availability. Even so, the first wave of cards still sold out rather quickly, especially for folks not close to a Micro Center. If you need a whole new desktop, though, you have options. This is probably going to the reality for a

Microsoft has uncovered a large-scale malvertising campaign that has affected over 1 million devices worldwide. In a blog post detailing its findings, Microsoft revealed that threat actors used platforms such as Dropbox, Discord, and Github to broadcast malware. The attacks, which were aimed at stealing sensitive information, were discovered early last December. These attacks came from illegal streaming sites that contained malicious ads and pop-ups. When people visit these sites, they are secretly redirected to