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The tech gurus at Digital Foundry have gone hands-on with the PlayStation 5 Pro's AI-powered PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling in the visually impressive first-party title Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. And based on the results, it looks like PSSR will be the PS5 Pro's secret weapon and deliver an NVIDIA DLSS moment to console gamers.

With direct access to the game and hardware, we have an in-depth head-to-head breakdown of the visual differences between Sony's PSSR, AMD's FSR 3.1, and NVIDIA DLSS 3.7. Like all upscaling methods, PSSR takes a lower-resolution image to generate a 4K image to present overall image quality that is on par with or close to native rendering.

Digital Foundry went to great lengths to match graphics settings, internal rendering resolutions, and upscale quality settings to ensure a like-for-like comparison between PSSR, FSR, and DLSS was possible. You might be surprised by just how much improvement PSSR delivers compared to AMD's FSR.

Federal authorities have charged two brothers with launching cyberattacks at some of the world's biggest technology companies, including streaming services and social platforms.

The US Department of Justice has alleged two brothers are behind the hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan, which launched thousands of powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks at some of the biggest tech companies in the world. Additionally, the group targeted government agencies such as the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), Pentagon, and FBI. The charges by the DOJ outline the two Sudanese brothers are also responsible for a series of cyberattacks against Microsoft, OpenAI, Riot Games, PayPal, Steam, Hulu, Netflix, Reddit, GitHub, and Cloudflare.

Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, were charged with one count of conspiracy to damage protected computers. Ahmed Salah was separately charged with three counts of damaging protected computers and an attempt to "knowingly and recklessly cause death" after launching several cyberattacks at hospitals in retaliation for hospitals being bombed in Gaza. If convicted of all charges, Ahmed Salah will face a maximum sentence of life in federal prison.

Elon Musk has announced he will be giving away $1 million a day to specific people who sign a petition and are a registered swing state voter.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO announced his plan to give $1 million away every day until November 5 to a random person located within a registered swing state and who has signed a petition from his political action committee. Musk's announcement has sparked a legal inquiry into whether or not its a violation of federal law to pay to register to vote or cast a ballot.

Intel's next-gen Core Ultra 9 285K processor is nearly here, but take a seat and check out these die shots of the 285K that shows Intel's first Tiled CPU for desktop PCs in all its nerdy, silicon glory.

The upcoming Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S" desktop CPUs will be led by the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K, which ASUS China manager Tony Yu has now delidded, and taken some truly gorgeous die shots of. There are multiple tiles on the processor that we get to see, some of which are made on the TSMC N3B, N5P, and N6 process nodes.

All of these building blocks create the Arrow Lake CPU being put together in a tiled-like fashion, with 6 tiles in total that include:

The US Department of Justice has charged two brothers who were allegedly behind a series of cyberattacks launched at hospitals across various countries.

Reports indicate the Sudanese brothers are behind the hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan, which the US Department of Justice believes is behind a series of cyberattacks launched at various hospitals around the world. The Department of Justice recently unsealed the charges against the brothers, accusing them of launching more than 35,000 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of organizations. The targets of these attacks were websites, network systems, services, media companies, airports, and government agencies such as the Pentagon, FBI, and Department of Justice.

The indictment revealed the brothers had their own ideological reasons behind the attacks but were also making their services available for hire. This would include launching cyberattacks against entities on behalf of clients, and according to US prosecutors and the FBI, their victims include Microsoft's Azure cloud services, OpenAI's ChatGPT, video game companies, and even hospitals. The last point is a particular point of interest for the prosecution as the brothers are accused of launching attacks on Cedars-Sinai Health Systems in Los Angeles, which resulted in multiple hours of downtime and patients having to be moved to different hospitals.

Valve is launching the Steam Deck in Australia in a couple of weeks, and to celebrate the occasion, they set up shop at PAX Australia earlier this month to demonstrate and discuss the company's first foray into the world of PC gaming handhelds.

After its initial launch in 2022 in the US and the arrival of the Steam Deck OLED variant in holiday 2023, you might be surprised to learn that the company is in no rush to create a sequel and is treating the Deck in much the same way Nintendo or Sony might when it comes to a traditional console generation.

Speaking with Reviews.org, Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang noted that a proper Steam Deck 2 won't be a thing until a chip can provide "a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life."

GIGABYTE is preparing its new Z890 AORUS TACHYON ICE CAMM2 motherboard, which will support the new CAMM2 memory standard that offers higher speeds and massive capacities.

The upcoming GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS TACHYON ICE CAMM2 motherboard was spotted on the Z890I AORUS ULTRA motherboard that Aussie YouTubers GearSeekers was presented with. The new board was shown off at Computex 2024 earlier this year, with the new CAMM2 version now on its way.

What do CAMM2 memory modules offer? CAMM2 memory modules will be offered in gigantic 256GB capacities, with speeds that we haven't got right now in the DDR5 memory market. CAMM2 memory modules will replace SO-DIMM modules for laptops, which usually maxed out at 5600MT/s, while desktops were pushing 8000MT/s.

A production company for Blade Runner 2049 has officially filed a lawsuit against Tesla, Warner Bros Discovery, and Elon Musk over the recent robotaxi event held at a Warner Bros studio lot.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court and states Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company misappropriated the movie's brand with promotional material used at the company's recent robotaxi event. That company is Alcon Entertainment, and according to reports, it specifically denied a request to use any material from the film at the recent Tesla event. However, according to the lawsuit, marketing material that was used affiliated the robotaxis with Blade Runner 2049.

The lawsuit calls out a specific image of a male figure wearing a trenchcoat as he overlooks what appears to be a ruined city cloaked in an orange hue. The lawsuit states, "the image was clearly intended to read visually" as a natural steel from Blade Runner 2049, specifically the scene where Ryan Gosling's character is overlooking a ruined Las Vegas. Alcon Entertainment claims Tesla took the original image from Blade Runner 2049, fed it into an AI image generator, and requested the sophisticated software to create a similar image to avoid copyright infringement.

It's officially less than a year until the world's most popular operating system loses support from Microsoft, in an event that is being described as "The biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete" in history.

That operating system is none other than Windows 10, which, according to data from Statcounter, currently holds approximately 65% of the operating system market, with Windows 11 only recently bumping up past the 30% market. Notably, Windows 11 is being adopted at a rate much slower than previous operating system generations, and with Microsoft announcing the end-of-support date for October 2025, it's a real possibility that millions of Windows 10 users will have an increased security risk following the official end of support date.

Each PC no longer receiving security updates from Microsoft will be exponentially vulnerable to breaches or be rendered obsolete if it doesn't meet the hardware requirements for Windows 11. Microsoft has stated users with Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) editions of Windows 10, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC will all have extended support durations. However, any other version of Windows 10 will no longer receive support from Microsoft post-October 14, 2025.

Kingston is cooking up its new Fury Renegade DDR5 CUDIMM memory, which is part of MSI's new Media Kit for the Intel Core Ultra 200 "Arrow Lake-S" launch.

Inside of the MSI Media Kit, the company includes two new Intel Core Ultra 200 series CPUs, a 360mm AIO liquid cooler, a new 800-series motherboard, and Kingston's unreleased DDR5 CUDIMM memory. Overclocking.com has their Media Kit, differing to some reviewers with the ASUS Media Kit that packs G.SKILL CUDIMM memory.

The MSI Media Kit features Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 CUDIMM memory at 8200 MT/s and CL40 timings, with a bigger 48GB kit (2 x 24GB sticks). We haven't had any 32GB CUDIMM memory kits announced just yet, which is why we're seeing MSI provide 48GB of DDR5-8200 CUDIMM memory with its Media Kit for Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU reviews.

Taiwan is considering changing its direction on nuclear energy, with AI demand unstoppable right now... Taiwan needs all the power it can get, and more specifically, TSMC.

TSMC is fabbing virtually all of the most advanced chips on the planet, including the best AI GPUs and AI accelerators, with existing nuclear power facilities in Taiwan run down, and with no direct replacement plans, there's only a single nuclear plant operational in 2024.

In order to feed the island with the power demands it needs, the country is now considering changing its stance on nuclear power. Over the last 10-20 years, Taiwan has been slowly decommissioning nuclear power plants with no plans for like-for-like replacements. The people of Taiwan were convinced in a post-Fukushima incident in Japan world, that nuclear power was dangerous, and that shifting away from it was a good thing.

Apple will be unveiling its new M4 family of processors later this month, with the introduction of new MacBook Pro laptops powered by the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max SoCs that are all fabbed by TSMC on its new 3nm process node.

Apple will host an event later this month unveiling the new M4 MacBook Pro, M4 Pro MacBook Pro, and M4 Max MacBook Pro, with UDN reporting that we can expect 16GB of RAM across the board with the new M4 MacBook Pros, up from the 8GB in the M3 MacBook Pro laptops.

TSMC is said to benefit greatly from this, as it has been doing from Apple, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and so many other companies that have their most advanced chips fabbed by the Taiwan semiconductor leader. Apple is expected to unveil its new M4 processors inside of new MacBook Pros, a new Mac mini, new iMacs, and an iPad mini 7 and then launch on November 1.

Apple's all-new, ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air is rumored with a single 48MP rear camera, 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence, its in-house A17 chip made on TSMC's new 2nm process node, and more.

In a new report from MacRumors, several credible sources over the last few months have claimed Apple is working on a redesigned, significantly thinner iPhone 17 smartphone for 2025. It's not yet known as the iPhone 17 Air, but I'm really digging the iPhone 17 Air name, so it'll be called that from now on out until Apple confirms the official name of its new ultra-thin iPhone 17.

We should expect the iPhone 17 Air to sport a 6.6-inch display, an Apple A19 processor made on TSMC's current 3nm process (the same used for the A18 Pro chip) according to a new research note from investment bank Haitong International, and analyst Jeff Pu. He also expects the iPhone 17 Air to feature an aluminum frame, FaceID, a single 48-megapixel rear camera, 24-megapixel front camera, and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence.

Valve has been cooking up a next-generation gore system which should debut inside of Half-Life 3, and would be the star of the show in a hopefully eventual Left 4 Dead 3.

In a new video by YouTuber "Water CS2" it's discovered that Valve has been working on a new ragdoll and new gore system, discovered in a recent CS2 (Counter-Strike 2) update and its file changes.

This would allow gamers to shoot and disable individual parts of an enemy's body, with limbs killing an enemy if powerful enough: think of a shotgun, up close to the right arm, it'd be blown off (and disable the enemy from using a weapon against you).

Intel's new Core Ultra 200H series "Arrow Lake-H" laptop processors will see a flagship Core Ultra 9 285H for laptops with 16 cores and a 45W TDP.

We've recently been learning of new Core Ultra 200HX, Core 200H and Core 200U series processors by leaker "Jaykihn" but now we've got some more leaks on the Core Ultra 200H series, which are based on Arrow Lake silicon (Core 200H + Core 200U are based on Raptor Lake Refresh silicon).

Intel's new Core Ultra 200H series "Arrow Lake-H" processors will have 3 types of cores: Lion Core P-Cores, Skymont E-Cores, and Skymont LP-Cores with a total of 16 cores through a configuration of 6P + 8E + 2LP. We should expect to see this configuration spread across 3 SKUs with the Core Ultra 9 285H, Core Ultra 7 265H, and Core Ultra 5 255H processors with 5.0GHz+ boost clocks and a full integrated GPU solution.

AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor has been tuned and pushed to 5.6GHz all-core, smashing 25,000+ points in Cinebench R23 and blowing the 7800X3D away in the process.

The 9800X3D is still under review embargo but an AnandTech forum member has posted a screenshot of a benchmark run on the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D running Cinebench R23 and the Final Fantasy XIV benchmark. "Igor_Kavinski" ran the 9800X3D with Precision Boost Overdrive (PB) enabled with offset and BCLK, which lets the CPU max itself out to provide the best out-of-the-box performance.

AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D was pushed to exactly 5643.14MHz, with the CPU reaching 5598.4MHz and 5689MHz in effective clock speeds when benchmarked through Cinebench R23.

Alan Wake 2 will make full use of the upgraded PlayStation 5 Pro hardware, but running in Performance Mode on the PS5 Pro will render the game at 864p and upscale it to 4K hitting 60FPS.

864p is just 1536 x 864 (a little over 720p and much less than 1080p) for the internal resolution, outputting a much higher 4K resolution image. Alan Wake 2 running on the new PS5 Pro in Performance Mode will offer a higher output resolution, and more visual detail than the base PS5 with improved image stability, fog, volumetric lighting, and shadow accuracy, all at 60FPS.

Remedy Entertainment has pumped out some comparison videos running Alan Wake 2 on the new PlayStation 5 Pro, with one above, and one below for you to check out.

Unreal Engine 5.4 delivers massive CPU and GPU performance improvements over the initial UE5.0 release, with The Matrix Awakens tech demo enjoying a healthy 40% upgrade in CPU performance when powered by UE5.4.

GPU performance running The Matrix Awakens under Unreal Engine 5.4 is also up by around 20% but the CPU performance increasing by 40% is a bigger eye-opener. MxBenchmarkPC did a fantastic comparison video of The Matrix Awakens on Unreal Engine 5.0 vs Unreal Engine 5.4 on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card.

The YouTuber noted that a proper comparison is impossible because Unreal Engine 5.4 has added a bunch of new features that weren't present in Unreal Engine 5.0, this includes proper support for Virtual Shadow Maps, Hit Lighting feature for Hardware Lumen, and more.

AMD has officially teased the arrival of Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs, which are due to launch on November 7. The rumored Ryzen 9800 X3D will be the first to hit the scene - with other models to follow in 2025.

In addition, AMD has announced that the non-3D Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs that launched a few months ago are being discounted as part of an 'Early Holiday Promotion.' Everything from the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X to the Ryzen 9 9950X is currently on sale.

The promotion begins today, with discounts of up to $50 available. You should already be seeing these prices reflected in the retail space.

After months of speculation and rumors, AMD has officially confirmed that the "next generation" of Ryzen X3D processors will arrive on November 7, 2024. That's only a couple of weeks away. The Ryzen 9000 X3D processors are set to take advantage of the new Zen 5 architecture while being compatible with the latest AM5 motherboards.

"Next-gen gaming is almost here," the teaser states, alongside the "X3D reimagined" banner, which covers all of the information we got from AMD. Yes, this is a traditional teaser; there's no mention of models, specs, expected performance, or even pricing. It's the equivalent of a CPU hardware 'save the date.'

However, thanks to rumors and speculation, we know some things about the first Zen 5 chips with 3D V-Cache technology. First up, the November 7 launch will be for the Ryzen 9800 X3D variant, with the more premium Ryzen 9900 X3D and Ryzen 9950 X3D CPUs set to launch in early 2025.