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Intel sends out the call to all hackers to enlist in Project Circuit Breaker to help discover security flaws in Intel software and hardware For the first time, security researchers and specialists will be able to work with Intel’s product and security crews through real-time hacking occurrences that may contain bounty multipliers up to 4x. Contests like “capture the flag” and additional activities will assist and ready researchers for challenges, including admission to beta software and hardware, along with other distinctive prospects....

Fortunately, a Change of Suppliers Is Not Expected to Delay iPhone 14 Shipments With the iPhone 14 rear camera lens facing quality problems, Apple has been forced to adjust its component orders. Genius, one of the company’s suppliers, was reportedly facing this issue, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, but since Apple has multiple suppliers for the same component, Largan will now fulfill the remainder of those orders, which amount to around 10 million camera lenses....

Apple to Reportedly Retain the Same Storage for Regular iPhone 14 Models, Just Like the iPhone 13 Series The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max could now feature double the storage compared to the base models of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, according to a report published by TrendForce. The new information claims that the premium models will also be sold in the 512GB and 1TB versions, though we reported earlier that a 2TB storage variant could be launched in September....

Logic board appears to belong to either an iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max; the mod brings the fingerprint back through the side button Though the A12 Bionic is several generations old, the SoC powers a family of iPhones that do not support Touch ID. On Twitter, @lipilipsi showed that it is still possible to bring a fingerprint reader to a device that either looks to be an iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max after looking at the default wallpaper....

For those wondering, the new ISOCELL HPX brings a number of changes to the table, it also offers 8K recording at 30 FPS, Tetra 2 Pixel binning technology, enabling 12.5-megapixel and 50-megapixel resolutions for different lighting conditions. The ISOCELL HPX Is a Brand New 200-Megapixel Sensor by Samsung, But It Is Not for the Galaxy S23 Ultra Now, before you get excited, the ISOCELL HPX is not the camera that you are going to see in the Galaxy S23 Ultra as the HPX is announced exclusively in China, and the sensor appears to have been created for System LSI customers in the Far Eastern country....

Microsoft Confirms New Encryption Bug Could Damage Data on Latest AMD & Intel CPUs With VAES Instructions, Patch To Reduce Performance While AMD & Intel CPUs are the highlights, virtually any system that is running a PC with the following instructions is affected and susceptible to data damage: AES XEX-based tweaked-codebook mode with ciphertext stealing (AES-XTS) AES with Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) (AES-GCM) As for the list of CPUs that are affected by this bug, those include Intel CPUs starting the 10th Gen Ice Lake and above, Ice Lake-SP Xeon Scalable processors for servers, and AMD CPUs starting the Zen 3 lineup plus the upcoming Zen 4 chips....

So far, the rumors that we have heard about the Galaxy S23 series are that Samsung is actually looking for more of an incremental upgrade rather than a full-fledged upgrade. The phones are going to get bigger battery upgrades, minus the Ultra variant that will still retain the 5,000 mAh battery. The Galaxy S23 is Shaping Up to be a Very Small Upgrade, and We Don’t Know How Fans will React Now, we have information from GalaxyClub that reveals more details about the upcoming phones....

The new patch is a minor one and addresses an issue with the game’s difficulty setting which prevented players from changing the difficulty level in-game. In addition, this update includes a fix for a rare crash in the weapons menu. The patch notes don’t mention any other changes or fixes, but it’s also possible this update also contains some under-the-hood improvements. For the sake of completeness, we’ve included the official release notes, as released by Sony, down below:...

The Latest Renders of the iPhone 14 Pro Shows The Rumored Purple Color and Design Based on Leaks It was previously rumored that the iPhone 14 Pro will be available in new purple color. While details are not concrete, we hope Apple is listening. The renders were shared by the graphic designer Ian Zelbo on the Front Page Tech video. The latest purple iPhone 14 Pro renders are based on leaks which include the dimensions of the device and the bigger camera module at the back....

First off, the brand-new character who’s currently in development. This character is Illaoi, one of League of Legends’ various Fighter-role characters (one of the game’s various character classes). Illaoi is mentioned in the Developer blog video below and a separate developer blog here. In this video, Tom Cannon talks a bit more about the development’s current status. The game’s had an art overhaul since December, and core mechanics are in place....

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus Could Be Mass Produced on TSMC’s 4nm Process Instead of Samsung’s The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is made on Samsung’s 4nm process, and according to a previous report, Qualcomm may jump to TSMC’s 4nm node for the faster SoC. To remind you, the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is recognized by its SM8450 model number, while Evan Blass says in his tweet that the Snapdragon Gen 1 Plus is designated with an SM8475 number....

Lenovo reveals the Legion Y9000K gaming Laptop with Intel Alder Lake CPU & NVIDIA RTX 30 series GPU, Launches on 30th June The Lenovo Legion Y9000K laptop is fashioned with the capability of featuring the Intel Core i9-12900HX CPU and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU inside the system, along with dual fans and complete vapor chamber cooling. The cooling technology is unique for a notebook, but the Lenovo Legion Y9000K laptop has a peak CPU power rated at 175W TDP, while the average TDP is rated at 115W....

Windows 10 KB5017380 Build 19044.2075 brings the following fixes and feature changes: For more details, head over to the official blog post.

The one-time high-flying EV stock, Lucid Group, is slated to report its earnings for the second quarter of 2022 today. As investors tune in to gauge the company’s performance in relation to its stated goal of delivering between 12,000 and 14,000 EVs in the entire 2022, there is a death of heightened fear in the market currently, at least when measured on the basis of the implied volatility (IV) skew between puts and calls....

Luminous Computing raises $105M to help with the advancement in tomorrow’s AI solutions. — Luke Nosek, managing partner, Gigafund However, the world is still a long way from seeing these applications in standard usage. AI companies understand how to provide these abilities from an algorithmic viewpoint, but more Computing, bandwidth, and memory are still in high demand. Luminous realizes this need and builds a supercomputer that satisfies those significant life-saving demands....

The Polish developer is currently working hard on the upcoming third patch for Stay Human, and as said, it will be a major update. In addition to including numerous fixes for the game’s singleplayer and multiplayer mode, update #3 will also introduce the highly-requested, and already confirmed, New Game + mode for the game, allowing players to revisit The City. Whether this major update will also contain the previously promised Photo Mode remains to be seen as Techland didn’t share further details about the upcoming update and this particular mode....

That said, according to Ross, there may still be a decent amount to look forward to in 2023. Dataminers have dug into the most recent update and discovered audio lines referring to the likes of Captain Marvel, She-Hulk, Ironheart, and the new movie Black Panther, Shuri. There’s no guarantee any of these characters will be added to the game, as Ross says the situation is still developing, but at least in the case of She-Hulk and Captain Marvel, the characters have been in the works for a while....

A couple of months ago, online functionality was confirmed for the Collection, bringing battling and trading to places like PlayStation Network, for example. Earlier today, though, some more information was revealed for the upcoming collection, which we’ll break down now. First off, a new trailer was released earlier today, which you can watch below. Secondly, pre-orders are available for both parts of the compilation. You can buy them both together at a $59....

Mesa 22.1-rc1 Adds Enhancements For Radeon Vulkan ‘RADV’ & Even Older NVIDIA Graphics on Open-Source Users will now see candidates released every week, leading to Mesa 22.1 full release. Below is a list of Mesa 22.1-rc1 changes provided by Michael Larabel of Phoronix. Ray primitive culling for assisting to improve the RADV ray-tracing support. RADV RT support is also further along for Doom Eternal and KHR_ray_query support. AMD GFX1036 / GFX1037 support....

At least, that’s what Bloomberg now reports to have heard from sources familiar with the matter. Last week, we reported that Microsoft is willing to offer Sony a 10-year Call of Duty licensing deal in order to shorten the regulatory process, but Bloomberg’s source now claims that conversations with the FTC about offering remedies or concessions haven’t taken place at all. “The Xbox maker hasn’t had conversations with the FTC about remedies or concessions aimed at getting the deal approved, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing a confidential matter”, the Bloomberg article reads....