The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that Chinese state-sponsored hackers were within the network of the US Army National Guard for many months without anyone knowing.

The attackers, known as Salt Typhoon, were within the National Guard's network for as long as nine months, and during this time, they stole sensitive data such as administrator credentials, network traffic diagrams, personally identifiable information (PII) of service members, and geographical maps. Notably, during its stay within the National Guard network, Salt Typhoon also accessed the data traffic between the state's network and every other US state, along with four territories.

Unfortunately, due to Salt Typhoon gaining access to the state's network traffic, there is a possibility of the attackers jumping to other networks as well, further compromising additional government infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) didn't confirm how Salt Typhoon gained access to the network, but the group, which is part of the wider Chinese state-sponsored hacking group "Typhoon", is known for infiltrating networks through various means, such as exploiting existing vulnerabilities in routers and other network-related hardware.

The CEO of Ubisoft has confirmed a new Ghost Recon title is currently in development, and that it will be a first-person shooter.

The confirmation for the long-rumored Ghost Recon game came from Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, who was answering questions in a shareholder meeting held on July 10. During the meeting, Guillemot discussed the success of Rainbow Six Siege and how that demonstrates the company's expertise in the live-service gaming market.

Yves added that Ubisoft intends to capitalize on its upcoming launches by continuing to "enhance" the experiences it currently offers "such as The Division and Ghost Recon."

FromSoftware currently has quite a lot on its plate at the moment, as the developer is currently working on continuous new updates for the recently released Elden Ring: Nightreign, and the upcoming title The Duskbloods, which is headed exclusively to the Nintendo Switch 2. However, there is reportedly a third title in the works, and the studio is deep into its development.

According to a new report by MP1st, FromSoftware is currently working on a project codenamed "FMC," with the studio reportedly already being deep into the development of the title that, if it continues at this pace, will release sometime in 2026. Unfortunately, the codename doesn't reveal much about what the title could be about, but from previous FromSoftware games, we have learned that codenames starting with "F" typically relate to the Dark Souls or Armored Core series.

Souls series creator and president of FromSoftware, Hidetaka Miyazaki, said in the past that the Souls series was finished, meaning this new project isn't likely to be a sequel. However, that doesn't rule out the possibility of there being one. What is more likely, if this unannounced title is Souls-related, is that it's the long-rumored remaster of Dark Souls 3, as the first and second games within the franchise have already been remastered, so it just makes sense to remaster the third as well.

It seems that employees aren't the only ones at the company being laid off, as Microsoft has fired its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows platforms.

Reports indicate that Microsoft has discontinued the ability to purchase new movies and TV shows from the Microsoft Store on both Xbox and Windows. Users will still be able to access content they have already purchased, with Microsoft confirming users will still be able to download on Windows and in HD max resolution. However, users wanting to access the content will still need to view it through the Movies & TV app on Windows or Xbox. Additionally, Microsoft isn't offering refunds to users.

The Movies & TV app and store emerged in 2015, following Microsoft's launch of the service with Zune Video Marketplace in 2006, and its subsequent replacement with Xbox Video in 2012. This evolution ultimately led to the current Movies & TV app and store. It appears Microsoft doesn't want to compete with the likes of Amazon, Netflix and, particularly, Apple in the streaming video services market. It remains unclear how long Microsoft will keep the Movies & TV servers online.

NVIDIA and the University of Bristol have unveiled what is now the United Kingdom's fastest supercomputer, as well as one of the most energy-efficient supercomputers globally.

NVIDIA has taken to its blog to announce the Isambard-AI supercomputer, which features 5,448 NVIDIA Grace Hopper superchips that are cooled through a series of liquid-cooled HPE server cabinets, each containing 440 GPUs.

The system is designed for research purposes and will be utilized to investigate topics spanning from materials science to the discovery of new drugs aimed at maintaining a healthy human population. Moreover, the system was assembled in under two years, whereas typical projects of this size typically take around three years to complete.

Intel has filed documents that reveal the company is planning to lay off as many as 5,000 employees in California and Oregon.

Intel's goal of moving to reduce company-wide headcount by 20% and reduce operating costs comes after the company has already shed approximately 16,000 workers in August 2024, which was shortly after the company underwent, and in some ways still enduring, one of its biggest failures in recent memory - 13th and 14th-gen processors Raptor Lake processors being unstable due to hardware degradation.

These issues and Intel's lack of public acknowledgment of them until pressured by consumers resulted in the company breaking consumer trust and having to participate in a lengthy RMA process for any affected customer.

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Call of Duty 2027 is already being leaked online ahead of the official worldwide reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The leaks come from a reputable Call of Duty source and claim the title won't be Advanced Warfare 2 and will be set in a completely new "sub-franchise".

The information comes from none other than @TheGhostOfHope, who recently took to their X account to announce that the Call of Duty releasing two years from now (2027), developed by Sledgehammer Games, "will NOT be Advanced Warfare 2 and will instead be set in a completely new sub-franchise." Adding, the COD 2027 will be set during the "Modern era," but won't feature any jetpacks. Furthermore, Hope added that there will be a big focus on movement, and Zombies aren't currently planned for the game.

Hope also wrote that "Get High" will be returning in COD 2027, which doesn't refer to drug use, but instead to moving or positioning to a high vantage point on the map to gain a tactical advantage over your enemy. This would include climbing on rooftops, ledges, scaffolding, etc. Lastly, Hope writes there may be a focus on martial arts within the gameplay as well, with players being able to perform "karate kicks" and "karate chops" as examples.

Intel went through and, in some ways, is still in the midst of one of its biggest failures as a company when it was discovered that 13th and 14th-gen processors were encountering a myriad of issues, such as unstable behavior and crashes related to high-frequency instability, silicon quality, exceeding power draw beyond advertised specs, and degradation. All of these problems Intel sat on until owners gained enough attention that the company was forced to respond.

Intel attempted to mitigate the issue by rolling out several patches, but those didn't really work, and even today, the company is still having to deal with 13th and 14th gen customers trying to RMA their CPU over instability issues. A Firefox developer has revealed that crash reports of 13th and 14th gen CPUs have sharply increased recently, with the developer saying the rise in Raptor Lake crashes is associated with the rising temperatures in Europe and regions across the Northern Hemisphere. The developer said, "your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat."

The developer goes on to say that Raptor Lake systems have known timing/voltage issues that are worse with increased temperatures. The developer goes on to say, "Things are so bad at this time we had to disable a bot that was filing crash reports automatically," due to the frequency at which the reports were coming in. It appears the voltage fluctuations within these Raptor Lake CPUs are increasing due to the heat in the region, resulting in more instability and, therefore, crashes.

AMD has confirmed that it will be launching its new Radeon AI PRO R9700 workstation-ready graphics card on July 23, built on the full-fat Navi 48 GPU die and features 32GB of GDDR6 memory.

The company has specifically tuned the new Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card for lower-precision calculations and demanding AI workloads, with AMD noting that it delivers up to 496% faster inference on large transformer models compared to NVIDIA's Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5080.

AMD's new Radeon AI PRO R9700 will also be around half the price of NVIDIA's new RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs, with the Radeon AI PRO R9700 at launch being offered only inside turnkey workstations from OEM partners like Boxx and Velocity Micro.

GravaStar and Yeston have just unveiled their new Mercury Nova Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card, combining the RDNA 4 GPU with a cyberpunk-inspired design. Check it out:

The new Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card combines AMD's new RDNA 4 architecture with GravaStar's iconic sci-fi design language, with the company designing the Mercury Radeon RX 9070 XT for PC gamers, custom PC builders, and collectors who want power and personality.

Yong Huang, Founder & CEO of GravaStar, explains: "This collaboration represents everything GravaStar stands for-performance, artistry, and pushing boundaries. We've taken AMD's next-gen gaming power and housed it in something visually extraordinary. This isn't just a GPU -- it's a conversation piece".

FurMark 2.9 has been released with the popular GPU tool supporting a bunch of new GPUs including the GeForce RTX 5050 and Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics cards.

GPU companies aren't the biggest fans (pun intended) of FurMark 2.9 as it is often referred to as a "GPU virus" because it puts graphics cards under extreme GPU loads that games and benchmarking don't usually do. It's nothing out of the ordinary, as other benchmarking tools do similar things to your PC hardware (like Cinebench punishing your CPU loading every core and thread).

FurMark v2 is a Vulkan-based GPU tool that works on both Windows and Linux, with special versions in the wild that also support Arm-based hardware. The latest FurMark 2.9 release supports new graphics cards like NVIDIA's just-released GeForce RTX 5050 and the workstation-based AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700.

Intel has reportedly moved its next big event from California to Arizona, where it'll host its Panther Lake CPU reveal event in Phoenix.

The upcoming Intel Technology Tour event will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, and it'll mark the first time that the company has held a huge event in the region according to a new report from DigiTimes. The reason why the event being held in Arizona is significant is that Texas is quickly becoming a huge hub for the semiconductor business on US soil, with TSMC building multiple facilities in the state.

We should expect some big things from the Intel Technology Tour event, where it'll flex its semiconductor foundry muscles against TSMC, where Intel will discuss its Foundry strategy, as well as talk about its "latest PC and data center processors".

Intel's next-generation Nova Lake-AX processors have been in the headlines over the last 24 hours, and now we have some more news regarding the core count and GPU cores inside of the Strix Halo APU competitor.

In a new post from leaker @OneRaichu, we're hearing that Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-AX enthusiast-grade mobile processors will have up to 28 cores of CPU power, and up to 48 Xe3 GPU cores that will provide some beefy on-the-go gaming performance.

The leaker suggests that Intel's new Nova Lake-AX processors will feature 28 cores in total that are split between 8 P-Cores, 16 E-Cores, and 4 LPE cores. Nova Lake-AX is more impressive on its GPU side, with a purported 384 Execution Units based on Intel's new Xe3P GPU architecture, as well as support for up to 9600/10667MT/s of LPDDR5X memory speed.

Intel is reportedly gearing up to use a "Unified Core" for its next-generation Titan Lake CPUs, something we've heard about in rumors for a while now, but new leaks are providing some more information.

In a new post from @SiliconFly on X, Intel's next-gen Titan Lake CPUs and their new Griffin Cove architecture will be the last processors from Intel using P-Cores, with the P-core team "going bye-bye". In 2028, Titan Lake is set to introduce the new Unified Core, which is set to have more performance than ever before.

There has also been a post from an Intel engineer in China that suggested the company is focusing on delivering architectural improvements through the use of a Unified Core platform, which will take performance to levels we haven't seen yet. Intel will be competing against AMD's next-gen Zen 6 and Zen 7 processors by then, so they'll need everything they can get.

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 6 console is expected to feature 24GB of RAM, up from the 16GB of RAM inside of the PS5 and beefed-up PS5 Pro consoles, and it'll be used for advanced ray tracing and machine learning.

In a new video from Digital Foundry, the tech experts surmise that the PlayStation 6 will feature 24GB of RAM, as it is needed for advanced ray tracing and machine learning, as the 16GB inside of the PS5 and PS5 Pro are already hitting limits when it comes to textures and assets.

DRAM hasn't dropped in price recently, but Sony will reportedly not be increasing the cost of the PS6 because of it (and most likely because Sony would be buying SO much DRAM for the PS6 that it would negotiate some rather kick-ass pricing from DRAM manufacturers). As for the rumored PlayStation 6 handheld, it would probably sport 16GB of RAM as it's reportedly capable of backwards compatibility, playing PS5/PS4/PS3/PS2/PS1 games on the go).

Nintendo is suing Pocketpair, the creator of Palworld for allegedly infringing on its Pokémon patents, but its latest moves indicate that Pocketpair may have a stronger defense case than Nintendo initially anticipated.

For those who are out of the loop, the release of Palworld in 2024 was a major success, with the title hitting an all-time peak of 2.1 million players on Steam shortly after its release. Palworld still remains an extremely popular game, with it still regularly sitting in the top 25 games on Valve's platform, and with attention came Nintendo lawyers, who claimed Palworld was infringing on the company's patents.

Nintendo officially sued Palworld's creator Pocketpair, and according to the suit, Nintendo is seeking approximately $66,000 in damages for Pocketpair allegedly infringing on three patents: one for how players can switch between riding different mounts, and two for capturing monsters. Pocketpair responded to Nintendo's claims and pointed to other games that use similar in-game mechanics, which Nintendo hasn't filed lawsuits against. Additionally, Pocketpair demonstrated its mount switching mechanic 6 months before Nintendo filed the patent it alleges Pocketpair is infringing upon.

Virtuos is laying off hundreds of people, and the company has confirmed that "restructuring" is happening.

Virtuos has announced that it will lay off about 7% of its workforce, or about 200 people. This implies that around 3,800 people had worked at Virtuos before the layoffs, and while the company is headquartered in Singapore, it had 25 offices worldwide.

A studio rep tells Eurogamer that the majority of Virtuos' layoffs will affect roles in Asia, with 70 layoffs being planned for Europe. Despite Oblivion Remastered's high-rising success, Virtuos will lay off 10 people from the French team responsible for Oblivion.

A YouTuber who focuses on retro gaming has had his home raided by the authorities, who seized a variety of gaming handheld devices.

That YouTuber is Once Were Nerd, who says Italian customs enforcement officers from the Guardia di Finanza appeared at his home on April 15 with a search warrant to investigate his property for devices that were promoting pirated copyrighted material. The authorities left the home with a total of 30 gaming consoles.

In addition to the confiscated consoles, the YouTuber provided their conversations with the console makers, along with their smartphone, which the authorities said would be returned in a few days, but was returned two months later on June 15.

Meta investors filed a lawsuit against company CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executive staff, both current and former, on Wednesday, with some of the claims of the suit citing the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, and the scandal that took place in 2018 where it was revealed Facebook users' personal information was being misused and Meta, then-Facebook, was in violation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations.

The investors claim that Meta didn't fully inform them of the risks associated with Facebook users' personal information being misused, which resulted in the company having to pay a $5.1 billion penalty to the FTC, along with facing significant fines in Europe amounting to a $725 million privacy settlement.

The investors behind the lawsuit are now demanding that Zuckerberg and other former and current leadership reimburse the company for the fines it had to pay, which the suit claims total as much as $8 billion, including legal fees.