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CES 2025 Media Day is here and there are plenty of announcements happening throughout the day, but without a doubt, the AMD CES 2025 Keynote is one of the biggest of the whole show.

Hosted at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, AMD's keynote address will be given by AMD CEO Lisa Su and other AMD executives, likely covering the whole gamut of product announcements from desktop chips and graphics cards to mobile processors and more.

I'm on the ground right now in Sin City to bring you all the latest news, so stay right here and follow along for all the latest on AMD's portfolio along with expert analysis as everything is announced.

How to watch the AMD CES 2025 keynote

If you want to follow along with me as I report the latest details from AMD's CES 2025 keynote, you can check out the embedded link below, with my thoughts and analysis on today's developments below.

Good morning folks. We're queueing up outside the South Seas Ballroom at Mandalay Bay, awaiting the start of AMD's CES 2025 keynote, and it's sure to be a packed 45 minutes to an hour. I'll be here bringing you all the latest news as it breaks, as well as my thoughts on what's being announced.

I'll keep you updated once I'm in my seat, so stay tuned!

(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

We're five minutes away from the start of AMD's press conference, so it's time to settle in.

AMD Senior VP Jack Huynh is taking the stage now, No Lisa Su this time.

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Hisense is showing off two 116-inch-plus TVs at CES -- the MicroLED 136MX and MiniLED 116UX.

• Hisense announced a 136-inch micro-LED TV at CES 2025
• A 116-inch mini-LED TV was also announced
• A new L9Q UST projector is super-bright up to 150 inches

Hisense has announced its new XXL-size premium TVs at CES 2025, and the offerings include two surprising technology statements for a company commonly associated with budget TVs. On top of those, a new super-bright ultra short throw projector was also announced.

Hisense will deliver a consumer-ready micro-LED TV in 2025 with a 136-inch screen size. Its mini-LED TV lineup will also expand with a 116-inch model – the largest yet from any TV maker, at the time of writing – that uses RGB backlight tech for enhanced color gamut coverage.

All new TVs will feature Hisense’s Hi view AI Engine X processor. According to the company, this new processor is faster than the one used in its 2024 TV lineup, which included the Hisense U8N – one of the best TVs of 2024 – and has specific AI functions to optimize picture, sound, and energy consumption.

Google TV will be used as the smart TV platform throughout the lineup in the US, and the TVs will feature an ATSC 3.0 tuner to receive NextGen digital TV broadcasts. In the UK, Hisense's own VIDAA will serve as the smart TV platform.

Hisense 136MX micro-LED TV

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The Hisense 136MX micro-LED TV will be available in a fixed 136-inch size. Hisense claims its massive screen is capable of 95% BT.2020 color space coverage and up to 10,000 nits of peak brightness. Along with its Hi view AI Engine X processor, the 136MX features an ultra-low reflectivity screen.

The 136MX will support Dolby Vision IQ and HDR10+ HDR formats and come with a Filmmaker Mode. For audio, the 136X will support both Dolby Atmos and DTS: Virtual X formats. For gaming, the 136MX will comes with two HDMI 2.1 ports which support 4K, 120Hz, VRR (AMD FreeSync Premium Pro included) and ALLM.

Hisense 116” TriChroma LED TV

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Hisense’s largest-ever mini-LED TV uses a new RGB mini-LED backlight design with tens of thousands of RGB optical lenses. According to Hisense, its ability to dim individual colors allows for 97% BT.2020 color space coverage and up to 10,000 nits of peak brightness. The TV has a 40mm ultra-slim profile and a 6.2.2-channel built-in speakers with Hisense’s CineStage X surround sound.

The 116UX will support all major HDR formats including Dolby Vision IQ and HDR10+, as well as IMAX Enhanced. It will also support Dolby Atmos and DTS Virtual X audio formats.

Hisense L9Q Laser TV

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Hisense is also adding a new projector to its Laser TV lineup in 2025. Hisense models rank among the best ultra short throw projectors, and this new model looks to be the company’s brightest one yet. Hisense says the L9Q’s TriChroma triple laser light engine delivers 5,000 lumens light output and 110% BT.2020 color space coverage. With a built-in 6.2.2-channel Dolby Atmos speaker system powered by 116W, it also has the most advanced audio of any Hisense projector.

Its 0.18 throw ratio allows for close-up placement to a wall or screen to project images up to 150 inches, and an auto screen alignment feature eases setup. Like other recent Hisense projectors, the L9Q will run the Google TV smart OS for streaming. You can read more about the Hisense L9Q here.

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I visited LG's TV demo room at CES 2025, and got my eyes on its new flagship TVs, the LG G5 and M5 (our opinion on those will come later). But while there, I also got to see the LG C5 mid-range OLED TV, and to speak to LG about it. Which was useful, because LG hadn't officially announced it until that point.

LG was able to confirm a bunch of details about the set, and the team also spoke about the more affordable LG B5 model that's coming, although that wasn't on display.

Here's the headline: the LG C5 promises to be a little brighter, but don't expect major changes compared to the LG C4 that's currently available; and the LG B5 will take a big step back in availability compared to last year's LG B4.

LG C5: specs and details

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There are really two major changes coming to the LG C5. First, LG says it should be a little brighter than the LG C4, but refused to confirm any numbers (even as a percentage), so I suspect that it will only be a small boost, probably driven by improvements to power management in its processor.

There's definitely not a big panel change here – for example, there's no upgrade to MLA OLED, even though the LG G5 has moved on from MLA to another new brightness tech. The screen will still be a 144Hz 4K display too, and won't move up to 165Hz like the LG G5 has.

The LG C5 will also get webOS 25, which will come with smart personal profiles and AI chatbot features, just like the LG G5 and M5 will have. This will include voice recognition, so if different people in your house have different profiles, when you ask the TV to do something, it'll recognize that you're you, and will switch to your profile while carrying out the command.

The personal profile not only includes different layouts for the home screen (ie, with the apps and services you like the most given more prominence), but can now also switch picture modes. LG gave the example that if each profile has gone through the AI Picture wizard to customize the picture for your preference, it'll use that setting when it switches to your profile. I think this sounds kind of annoying (I much prefer consistency), but it's a novel idea.

As last year, the LG C5 will come in sizes from 42 inches up to 83 inches.

Now, the LG B5

While the LG B5 wasn't at the show, LG did confirm that it's coming, that it will use an Alpha 7 processor, and that it will boast around the same brightness as the LG B4, though the team at CES again refused to give any figure (other than saying that the LG G5 will be three times brighter than it).

However, LG did confirm one element: it will be available in "limited sizes". Despite being available in 48 inches for the first time in 2024, in 2025 there will only be two sizes of LG B5. LG wasn't able to confirm exactly which sizes, but my understanding is that it's likely to be 65 inches and then either 55 or 77 inches, but I'll update with confirmation on those if I get it.

This is obviously a big disappointment – LG already stopped its A series of cheaper OLED TVs, and now it seems that the B series may be winding down too. Perhaps the price difference between the B series and C series just isn't large enough and more people opt for the C, but I hope that the B will continue in the future to keep OLED more affordable, even if it's only in these few sizes.

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TechRadar will be extensively covering this year's CES, and will bring you all of the big announcements as they happen. Head over to our CES 2025 news page for the latest stories and our hands-on verdicts on everything from 8K TVs and foldable displays to new phones, laptops, smart home gadgets, and the latest in AI.

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• Windows 11 has got new spec ‘cards’ and a hardware FAQ in testing
• These elements are designed to help you easily see how powerful your PC is
• They are already present in Windows 10 (but only in testing still)

Microsoft looks to be trying to make it easier for Windows 11 users to understand what spec their PC has, and how powerful that makes the system.

As discovered by regular leaker PhantomOfEarth on X, in a test build of Windows 11 there’s a new set of ‘cards’ (small info panels) in the Settings app which detail key elements of the spec of the PC at a glance.

Windows 11's About settings page is getting new top cards that highlight key specs such as storage, graphics memory and RAM.(Yes, these cards are the same ones seen in Windows 10's redesigned About settings page in recent Insider CUs.) pic.twitter.com/k45sGi5j9IJanuary 3, 2025

These cards sit at the top of the System > About panel in Settings, showing info about the storage, GPU, system RAM and processor of the machine.

However, the feature isn’t working properly quite yet, as the name of the CPU isn’t provided in the case of PhantomOfEarth’s PC (and for Windows Latest, which spotted the above post on X, the processor section is entirely blank).

Under storage, the card displays the amount of drive space in total, and the free space left. With the GPU panel, for the first time Microsoft is furnishing us with the amount of video RAM on the graphics card, as well as its type.

In the RAM card is simply the quantity installed, and the type of memory, and with processor in theory you’ll get the name and speed of the CPU (but as mentioned, this appears to be misfiring with the feature as it stands in testing).

(Image credit: Microsoft) Analysis: A useful addition set to outdo the Windows Experience Index

This feature has actually been implemented in Windows 10 already, as PhantomOfEarth notes (still only in testing), and along with the cards, there’s a FAQ section which will supposedly be coming to Windows 11, too.

The idea for this is to give the user an idea of what their specs mean beyond hard numbers – a real-world assessment of expected performance, albeit a brief affair.

So, you’ll get an indication of how your quantity of RAM is going to cope with running apps smoothly, or whether your GPU is good enough to keep up with more demanding games, all in plain spoken language. Unfortunately, what you’ll also likely get is yet another nudge to upgrade to Windows 11, if you’re still on Windows 10 of course, but this is Microsoft – don’t expect the company to miss an opportunity to get in a plug about how much better the newer OS is (and it is better, to be fair, in a good few ways).

If all this reminds you of the Windows Experience Index, first introduced way back with Windows Vista, which rated your PC for performance in various categories – and became the subject of much confusion and many complaints – well, don’t worry. The good news is that the new spec cards and hardware FAQ for Windows 11 look like a more useful tack, offering a greater level of clarity. Even if the advice given is rather generic, at least for now in testing.

Down the line, this might be a useful area for Microsoft to incorporate more detailed AI-powered advice on your computer spec, perhaps, as the software giant may well develop this part of the Windows 11 interface further.

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• Tenable urges users to update their Nessus instances to avoid a potential plugin security issue
• A previous plugin update saw agents going offline
• The earliest clean version is 10.8.2, so users should update now

Tenable has urged users to update their Nessus instances to avoid a potential plugin security issue.

Tenable Nessus is a widely used vulnerability scanner that helps identify and assess security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance issues in networks, applications, and systems.

However, in the final hours of December 2024, the company said it was “aware of and actively investigating” an issue with Nessus agents going offline after plugin updates for certain users on all sites - and as a result, the company temporarily stopped plugin updates.

Resetting plugins

The incident apparently affected Nessus Agent versions 10.8.0 and 10.8.1, for users in North and Latin America, Europe, and Asia. To address the issue, Tenable released Nessus Agent version 10.8.2.

"There is a known issue which can cause Tenable Nessus Agent 10.8.0 and 10.8.1 to go offline when a differential plugin update is triggered. To prevent such an issue, Tenable has disabled plugin feed updates for these two agent versions. Additionally, Tenable has disabled the 10.8.0 and 10.8.1 versions to prevent further issues," the release notes detailed.

Now, users are called to either upgrade to 10.8.2, or downgrade to 10.7.3 to bring their Nessus agents online. However, they also need to reset their plugins.

“If you are using agent profiles for agent upgrades or downgrades, you must perform a separate plugin reset to recover any offline agents," the company concluded.

To adress the bugs, users first need to reset agent plugins via a script or a nessuscli reset command, and then manually upgrade the Tenable Nessus Agent using the 10.8.2 install package.

Tenable claims to have more 44,000 customers worldwide, including 65% of the Fortune 500. While the exact number of Nessus users isn't publicly disclosed, it is safe to assume that Nessus is quite popular in the cybersecurity community.

Via BleepingComputer

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