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AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processor samples have been distributed according to new leaks, with new details on the next-gen Zen 6 chips teased.

In a new post from the creator of Hydra tuning software, Yuri Bubily aka 1usmus, shared some new details on AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors on the official Discord for Hydra. He said that engineering samples of AMD's next-gen Zen 6-based Ryzen CPU have been distributed, also saying that the new Zen 6 core architecture will be an 'evolution' of Zen 5, and not a 'revolution'.

AMD is adding more CPU cores per CCD, something we heard in previous leaks -- where we can expect up to 24 cores and 48 threads of Zen 6 processing power, and much more cache (up to 48MB per CCD, with previous leaks from Moore's Law is Dead teasing up to 240MB of 2-Hi X3D cache).

Chinese monitor manufacturer KTC has just launched its new budget gaming monitor with the introduction of the H24F7, offering 1080p 240Hz for under $100.

The new KTC H24F7 gaming monitor features a 23.8-inch panel with a native 1920 x 1080 (1080p) resolution and super-smooth 240Hz refresh rate, launching in China for 599 yuan, which works out to $84 USD. There are competing gaming monitors on the market with 1080p @ 144Hz or even 180Hz for $100, but this looks to be the first 1080p @ 240Hz gaming monitor for under $100.

KTC's new H24F7 gaming monitor should feature an IPS panel, and what looks like super-thin bezels. We've got a 2ms GtG response time, so that $84 price tag is very compelling. The new KTC H24F7 gaming monitor offers 116% sRGB color space, with up to 400 nits of brightness, but no height adjustment on the stand, we'd expect that for a gaming monitor priced at under $100.

Philips has just launched one of the cheapest Dual-Mode gaming monitors offering 4K @ 160Hz and 1080p @ 320Hz with the introduction of its new Evnia 27M2N3800A gaming monitor.

The new Philips Evnia 27M2N3800A features a 27-inch Fast IPS panel with a 0.5ms MPRT and 1ms GtG response time, with 4K 160Hz and 1080p 320Hz Dual-Mode goodness. We've also got 95% DCI-P3 color gamut for excellent colors and HDR compatibility, with dual HDMI 2.1 ports offering up to 48Gbps of bandwidth.

Philips also includes two DP 1.4 ports if you don't want to use the HDMI 2.1 ports, but those HDMI 2.1 ports are incredibly important if you want to connect your Evnia 27M2N3800A gaming monitor to your PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro, or Xbox Series X/S consoles and enjoy up to 120Hz over the included HDMI 2.1 port.

A clutch of new games is now available for free on PlayStation Plus, headed up by Cyberpunk 2077 - and coupled with an offer on the expansion for the open world RPG.

This is all part of the ongoing celebration of the PlayStation Plus 15th anniversary, so if you've never played Cyberpunk 2077, now's your chance if you're a subscriber (and it's a game well worth experiencing, trust us).

There's also an offer for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty which PlayStation Plus members can now bag for a 30% discount, should they be craving more. That discount is in play until July 23.

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Tech companies are always looking for ways to improve the value of their ecosystem, and these improvements typically come in the form of new features intended to reduce the time spent on menial tasks. In a nutshell, convenience upgrades.

Apple has filed a new patent that resembles one of these upgrades, and it involves letting users perform secure voice commands through Siri, which includes granting the AI the ability to send money to other people, or even private data. Here's how it works. A locked iPhone, or any other applicable Apple device, such as an Apple Watch, is listening for natural language input. Siri is then triggered and detects a request similar to this, "Pay Mike $30".

Siri determines if this prompt is a sensitive task by performing a series of checks. If the checks are passed, Siri will then run a pre-authenticated connected accessory through a set of criteria, which includes measuring proximity, recent verification of the device, and secure pairing with the device. If all criteria are met, Siri will then carry out the sensitive task without requiring the user to perform a FaceID scan or enter a passcode. Once the task is completed, Siri provides confirmation via a voice or visual output prompt.

We're all familiar with the passwords that should never, ever be used - like 'password' for example - but people still employ such cringeworthy efforts, and so do big organizations, it seems.

In this case, as TechSpot reports, a security researcher, Ian Carroll, managed to gain access to an admin account for the McHire platform, used to facilitate recruitment for McDonald's. It does this using a chatbot (Olivia) made by Paradox.ai.

Carroll achieved this when looking at the portal for McDonald's restaurant owners to log in to view their applicants, where there was also a link for Paradox.ai staff to log in. Clicking through to the latter, and using '123456' for both the user and password allowed a successful sign-in - to the researcher's disbelief - but only to a sample restaurant and related details (for internal testing).

Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology have created the world's lightest insect brain controller and injected it into bees.

A report from the South China Morning Post reveals that the scientists behind this technology believe that fleets of mind-controlled insects could be used to scout areas and help disaster relief operations. How does it work? Researchers developed a device that plugs directly into the brain of a bee via three microscopic needles.

Scientists then use electronic pulses sent through the needles to control the direction the bees fly, and according to research published in the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, the bees obeyed these commands 90% of the time.

What if you wanted to download your entire Steam Library, or perhaps the entire Steam Store? How long would it take you on your home internet connection? Weeks? Possibly years? Maybe even a decade? Japan could do it in a matter of seconds with their new insane internet speed that has broken the world record.

Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) broke the world record for the fastest internet speed by transmitting data a staggering 1.02 petabits per second, which, for those who don't know and understandably so, a petabit is, that's 1,020,000 gigabits per second. You could imagine this speed as seeing your download at 127,500,000 Megabytes per second (MB/s), or 127,500 GB/s. Yes, that is correct. 127,500 gigabytes per second download speed.

How was this speed achieved? NICT used standard-sized fiber optic cables that are typically used in many homes around the world, but the difference was that they were equipped with four cores and over 50 different wavelengths of light to transmit data. To add even more impressive statistics to this achievement, researchers were able to maintain this speed over 51.7 kilometers (32.12 miles), making these kind of speeds feasible for real-world infrastructure.

Razer's DeathAdder is an iconic PC gaming mouse that the company has continued to evolve for nearly twenty years. From its ergonomic shape to its reliable performance, it has been a go-to peripheral for competitive gamers and esports professionals for a long time. And with over 20 million DeathAdders sold to date, Razer has announced the next evolution of the iconic mouse - the new Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro.

Per the headline, the new Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro is an ultra-lightweight wireless gaming mouse, weighing in at just 56 grams. Interestingly, that's for the Black version, as the White variant weighs 57 grams. Razer notes that the new DeathAdder V4 Pro is the first mouse from the company to debut with its new Razer HyperSpeed Wireless Gen 2 technology, which is 63% more power-efficient than the previous generation with 37% lower latency.

This allows the DeathAdder V4 Pro to provide over 150 hours of battery life with the 1,000 Hz Polling Rate. The new mouse also supports both 8000 Hz polling in wired and wireless modes, for absolute peak performance. Designed in collaboration with esports pros, things get even more impressive when you take a peek inside.

AMD has disclosed a new class of security vulnerabilities in its CPUs, which the company has addressed in a new technical paper outlining strategies to mitigate the vulnerabilities that affect AMD Ryzen, Threadripper, Athlon, Instinct, and EPYC CPUs.

The vulnerabilities have been dubbed Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA), which is a type of attack that doesn't attack the software directly but instead leaks information by observing the hardware's behavior, such as how long it takes the hardware to complete a certain task. These are called side-channel attacks.

TSA is similar to infamous security vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre, which exploited how CPUs optimize performance using a technique called speculative execution, which involves the CPU predicting what instructions it might need next and starting to execute them before it's sure they are actually required.

Samsung's tri-fold phone is apparently still inbound and should arrive this year, according to one executive at the company - but we're hearing some more doubtful noises from another exec.

The Verge reports that TM Roh, who is acting head of Samsung's Device Experience division, spoke to The Korea Times and, after the lack of any tease at the recent Unpacked event (the phone was teased early this year - see above), clarified that:

Rumors have been circulating about Apple finally jumping into the foldable smartphone market for quite some time, and now we are hearing that production has begun on the display that will be featured in the first foldable iPhone set to launch next year alongside the iPhone 18 series.

Reports from MacRumors state the first foldable iPhone displays are being produced by Samsung Display, which has created a dedicated production line for the upcoming device at its A3 factory in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do. This production line at the factory will be dedicated to creating the new foldable OLED displays headed to the first foldable iPhone, with the facility being capable of producing as many as 15 million displays per year, exceeding Apple's requirements for fulfilling potential orders of the device throughout 2026.

Notably, Samsung Display has reportedly secured an agreement with Apple to provide foldable displays to the smartphone company for at least two years. Typically, Apple likes to diversify its supply chain, but since Samsung Display has unique expertise in foldable display technology due to the company offering its own foldable smartphones since 2019, Apple has reportedly agreed to sign on for a prolonged period of time.

SilverStone's new Seta H2 full-tower workstation chassis is in many ways a PC case from a different era, albeit one that still has room to fit a high-end GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU and multiple 140mm fans and radiators. What makes it stand out is that it features 15 drive bays for both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch HDDs, offering a substantial amount of storage potential for a single chassis.

This makes it rather large, with a 70-liter capacity, and features a minimal design that prioritizes a sleek mesh-panel presentation over modern panoramic glass views. And if you're wondering how a full-tower case manages to squeeze in 15 drive bays, the image above showcases the entire layout, featuring 11 x 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch combo bays, 1 x 3.5-inch or 2 x 2.5-inch slots behind the motherboard tray, and 2 x 2.5-inch drives above that.

Granted, you'd probably need a lot of storage to make use of a case like this, as most modern PCs for gaming and content creation typically utilize multiple on-board PCIe SSD storage slots on a motherboard, with perhaps one or two additional drives on top of that.

An individual claiming to have worked on early builds of the upcoming Naughty Dog game "Intergalactic" has said the new game is like The Last of Us Part II meets Dark Souls in terms of the open world, but has combat similar to God of War 2018.

The individual took to 4Chan to drop the information, meaning take the following information with a healthy amount of skepticism as it isn't coming from a reputable source. The leaker says they tested Intergalactic on PS5 Pro dev kits, and that players should think about the open-world as a "nest sandbox," with big areas with layers of traversal, not the open-world experience found in Ubisoft games. The leaker adds there will be planetside traversal, which includes a mix of gliders, parkour, and "faith anchors," which the protagonist can link to and unlock fast travel checkpoints.

The leaker goes on to mention the combat, saying it feels "very good" and has "satisfying feedback". Adding players will be comboing enemies through stringing together basic attacks, jumps, and dashes. There is also the inclusion of a weak point mechanic, with the leaker saying the protagonist can use the pistol seen in the trailer to target weak points, "some of which can be seen while the enemy attacks." Additionally, players will be able to "break limbs to handicap enemies and use special tools to inflict unique status" effect damage.

The original Doom from 1993 not only helped define a new genre and a decade of gaming, but it has gone on to become one of the most widely ported games of all time. And that's without counting all of the unofficial ports of Doom that have brought it everything from a calculator to a heart monitor and Samsung washing machines.

During the 1990s, the game was a cultural phenomenon. A defining moment for PC gaming, the original Doom also made its way to consoles like the 32X add-on for the Sega Genesis, the Sony PlayStation, the ill-fated Atari Jaguar, and the 16-bit icon that was the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES.

Although the SNES was a pioneer in 3D gaming, thanks to the likes of Star Fox and the SuperFX chip, bringing Doom to the console was still considered an "impossible port." Fast forward to 2025, and the original programmer Randal Linden, Limited Run Games, and Bethesda have teamed up to deliver the definitive Doom for the SNES. And yes, it arrives on a cartridge that you can slot into the 16-bit console.

NASA's Mario Rana spied a bright flash on Saturn last week over the weekend, marking the first time astronomers have spotted an object slamming into Saturn in real-time.

The volunteer astronomer at NASA's Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) was using the telescope to image Saturn when they reported seeing a bright flash of light at around 09:00 UTC. As soon as the flash was detected, Rana put out the word to the astronomy community to see if anyone else saw what they just saw, specifically for more images or footage of the event.

Notably, Saturn, being a gas giant, doesn't exhibit any craters or scars from astronomical collisions such as this, making it hard to determine the size of the object or even if the event took place. Saturn's turbulent atmosphere of hydrogen and helium essentially swallows any evidence of a collision, with any remaining evidence being quickly swirled around in the thick outer layers of the planet. For this reason, it's remarkable that seemingly an object was caught slamming into the planet in real-time.

OpenAI is on the verge of releasing its own web browser in a bout to challenge the market-dominating browser, Google Chrome.

A new report from Reuters claims to have obtained information that OpenAI will be releasing this new browser within the "coming weeks," and that it will directly integrate OpenAI services such as ChatGPT in an effort to fundamentally change how people browse the internet. Why does OpenAI want its own web browser? All artificial intelligence tools need data to be trained on, and one of the biggest troves of user data is in web browsers, particularly Google Chrome.

According to the report, OpenAI's web browser will be Chromium-based, meaning it's built on the foundations of Google Chrome. By doing this, OpenAI will be getting direct access to Google's user data, and if the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT transition over to the new browser, it will take a significant chunk out of Chrome's 3.45 billion monthly users.

The new PNY GeForce RTX 5050 Single Fan Graphics Card is one of the smallest desktop RTX GPUs, measuring just 146.7mm in length. The entry-level GPU from NVIDIA targets 1080p gaming performance, with DLSS 4, while also bringing the latest generation of hardware encoders and decoders to the compact home theater and content creator PC market.

The dual-slot single-fan PNY GeForce RTX 5050, alongside the company's GeForce RTX 5060 variant, is small enough to fit inside even the most compact case, thanks to its 130W power rating, heatsink, and optimized fan, ensuring it runs cool even during intense gaming sessions. Essentially, it resembles a dual-fan GPU cut in half, with the single 8-pin power connector positioned closer to the PCIe bracket than to the rear.

Port-wise, it's your typical GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU, featuring three DisplayPort 2.1 ports and a single HDMI 2.1 port. One of the most significant differences between NVIDIA's entry-level GeForce RTX 5050 and its counterparts is that it features the fewest CUDA Cores of the entire line-up. It has 8GB of older GDDR6 memory, whereas all other models utilize the faster and newer GDDR7 memory.

As far as overclocked DDR5 desktop memory goes, DDR5-6000 is widely seen as the new sweet spot offering excellent speed and performance for both AMD and Intel CPU owners. As far as capacity goes, 32GB or 64GB kits are what you'd find in most places, with very few options pushing capacities higher than that.

This makes G.SKILL's latest announcement the sort of headline that will prompt a double-take: two new ultra-high overclocked DDR5 memory kits - DDR5-6000 CL32 256GB (64 GB x 4) and DDR5-6400 CL36 128GB (64 GB x 2) memory kits.

Yes, 256GB of fast G.SKILL DDR5 memory sounds very impressive; however, the company notes that these kits are primarily intended for content creators, high-performance computing, and AI applications where system memory makes a significant difference in the sorts of workloads a rig is capable of running.