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It’s that time of year again: Qualcomm has debuted its new-and-improved flagship mobile chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, at its annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii.

Essentially a renamed version of the much rumored Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (though Qualcomm isn’t ready to confirm as much just yet), the 8 Elite is a de facto successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and will likely power the Samsung Galaxy S25, OnePlus 13, and many more of the best phones we expect to see released in 2025.

“Our flagship mobile platforms are now taking on the Elite name, showcasing the remarkable progress it represents for the industry,” Qualcomm said in a statement announcing the launch, which comes just a month after Apple and Meditek unveiled their latest flagship chipsets – the A18 Pro and Dimensity 9400, respectively.

The 8 Elite is the first Snapdragon mobile chipset to feature Qualcomm’s second-generation Oryon CPU, and has been designed to “handle the complexities of multi-modal AI” better than any mobile chipset before it. In other words, next year’s best Android phones will surely rank among the best AI phones, too.

Forgive us for getting technical, but the Oryon’s two prime CPU cores boast peak speeds of 4.32GHz – supposedly the fastest in the industry – and six new performance cores that each boast peak speeds of 3.53GHz. Qualcomm’s latest flagship chipset also does away with efficiency cores, two of which feature in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

The key specs of the Snapdragon 8 Elite (Image credit: Qualcomm)

What does all that mean in layman’s terms? Well, since the CPU in mobile chipsets is used for application processing, any phones equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Elite should deliver faster app launches, more seamless multitasking, and more powerful generative AI capabilities than their Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-equipped predecessors.

Mobile chipsets also feature a GPU for graphics processing (read: gaming – more on this below) and an NPU for machine learning (ML) applications, though Qualcomm is most jazzed about the addition of its Oryon CPU, saying: “The Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform represents the pinnacle of Snapdragon innovation. With Qualcomm Oryon CPU debuting in our mobile roadmap, we are delivering unprecedented performance. This significance deserves a new, special, most premium variant of our leading 8 series.”

A gift for gamers

(Image credit: Qualcomm)

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The Andreno GPU in the Snapdragon 8 Elite boasts Qualcomm’s first-ever sliced architecture, which facilitates a higher clock speed, higher frame rate, and better battery efficiency – that means sharper images, smoother gameplay, and longer gameplay sessions – than the GPU in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The Andreno can also store 12MB of data directly on the GPU, sending less graphical data to the chipset’s DDR memory.

What’s more, the Snapdragon 8 Elite supports Unreal Engine’s Chaos Physics system, which allows for the rendering of up to 9,000 unique objects and the destruction of up to 1,000 objects in under 5ms of latency. Similarly, support for Unreal Engine’s Nanite solution will supposedly facilitate a “massive increase” in geometric complexity and the rendering of “film-quality environments in your mobile game” – let’s just hope Qualcomm isn’t referring to recent Marvel movies there, eh?

There is, of course, plenty more to say about the Snapdragon 8 Elite – and we’ll be reporting on several never-before-seen features throughout our week on the ground at Snapdragon Summit – but for now, all you need to know is that the next wave of flagship Android phones will pack a serious punch; provided, that is, Samsung et al can make good use of all that lovely power. Here’s hoping!

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The OnePlus 13 is set to be one of the final flagship phones of 2024, though it will probably only be a 2024 release in China, with the rest of the world likely to get it in 2025.

Either way though, it could be worth the wait, as between leaks and teasers we have a good idea of what to expect, and that includes an extremely powerful and efficient chipset, a huge battery, and a striking design.

Below then, you’ll find everything we’ve heard about the OnePlus 13 so far, including its confirmed announcement date and design, and leaked specs and features.

Cut to the chase

• What is it? The next OnePlus flagship
• When is it out? October 31 in China, maybe early next year globally
• How much will it cost? Likely upwards of $799.99 / £849 (around AU$1,200)

A rumored price increase

The OnePlus 12 (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

• Landing in China on October 31
• Could cost more than the OnePlus 12

The OnePlus 13 will be unveiled on October 31 at an event in China. The company itself has confirmed this, with the event kicking off at 1am PT / 4am ET / 8am GMT / 7pm AEDT.

This event will most likely just be the Chinese launch of the phone though, with a global launch probably happening in early 2025 based on past form.

The OnePlus 13 might also cost more than the OnePlus 12, with one leak suggesting a 16GB model with 512GB of storage will cost ¥5,299 in China, which is up from ¥4,799 for the equivalent model of the OnePlus 12. That’s a difference of around $70 / £55 / AU$105.

For reference, the OnePlus 12 cost $799.99 / £849 (around AU$1,200) at launch for a 12GB / 256GB model, and rose to $899.99 / £999 (roughly AU$1,350) for a 16GB / 512GB version. So the OnePlus 13 might have a higher price than that.

Oh, and don’t count on being able to buy it in Australia, because the current model isn’t available there.

Can you trust these rumors?

We've only heard one price leak so far so we'd take it with a pinch of salt. But it's believable that the OnePlus 13 would cost more than the OnePlus 12, especially as the Snapdragon chipset we're expecting it to use reportedly costs more than its predecessor.

A familiar design and a new screen technology

The OnePlus 12 (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

• A familiar design in new colors
• The screen has an interesting refresh rate technology
• Might get an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor

We know exactly what the OnePlus 13 looks like – at least from the back – because OnePlus has already shown it off in three different colors, as you can see below.

The phone will be available in White Dawn (white), Blue Moment (blue), and Obsidian Secret (black) shades, with the blue one apparently having a skin-like feel and the black one having an “ebony wood grain” textured finish.

The design of the back otherwise looks somewhat similar to the OnePlus 12, but the circular camera block doesn’t extend out to the edge here, and instead there’s a silver line running across the rear.

The OnePlus 13 in three colors (Image credit: OnePlus)

We haven’t yet had a complete official look at the front of the phone, but you can see glimpses of it in a OnePlus 13 teaser video, showing what appears to be a flat display with a punch-hole camera in the top center.

We’ve also seen actual photos of the OnePlus 13, from where it was spotted at a Chinese esports event, as you can see below.

Images of the OnePlus 13 at an esports event (Image credit: Weibo)

And prior to all this we also saw another OnePlus 13 teaser image, and a teaser for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset which seemingly shows the phone too, though neither of these provided a clear look at it.

And we’ve also seen what might be the full front of the OnePlus 13, though it has not been confirmed whether the pictured phone is indeed the OnePlus 13 or not.

Still, it shows a seemingly flat screen with a punch-hole camera, similar to other teasers above.

A possible image of the OnePlus 13 (Image credit: OnePlus)

In any case, leaks suggest the OnePlus 13 might have a 6.82-inch display, which is the same as the OnePlus 12. An early leak also suggested the OnePlus 13 would have a curved screen, but based on more recent leaks and teasers that doesn’t appear to be the case, unless it’s a very subtle curve.

We’ve also heard that the OnePlus 13’s display may have a 2K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate, which would be as expected.

The company has also teased on Weibo that its screen will be able to deliver different refresh rates in different sections, so for example static text could be at 10Hz while a video playing elsewhere on the screen could be 120Hz. This is something we haven’t seen from other Android phones, and it might allow for improved battery life.

Finally, leaks suggest the OnePlus 13 might have an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor in the screen, which should work better than the optical one of its predecessor.

Can you trust these rumors?

Most of the design has now been confirmed, and the leaked screen specs are all in line with what we'd expect. The one real question mark here is whether the OnePlus 13 will have an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, but it sounds believable.

A mix of old and new cameras

The OnePlus 12 (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

• Could have the same main camera as the OnePlus 12
• Might have two new 50MP snappers

We haven’t heard loads about the OnePlus 13’s camera yet, but one leak suggests the OnePlus 13 will have the same main camera as the OnePlus 12. That’s a 50MP f/1.6 camera with an LYT808 sensor.

It would be a shame not see any upgrades there, but in an earlier leak the same source claimed OnePlus was working on the OnePlus 13’s periscope camera, so that at least might differ from the 64MP 3x zoom of its predecessor.

As for exactly how it might differ, well, both that source (Digital Chat Station, via Android Authority) and leaker Yogesh Brar have claimed that the OnePlus 13 might have three 50MP cameras. In which case that would also mean changes to the ultra-wide, as that’s 48MP on the OnePlus 12.

Can you trust these rumors? 

The cameras are one of the things we're least sure about, as we haven't heard all that much about them. But the leaks we have heard generally all point in the same direction, so the specs above have a good chance of being accurate.

An efficient chipset and a huge battery

The OnePlus 12 (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

• Likely to have a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset
• Could have a 6,000mAh battery

One area where the OnePlus 13 might be a big upgrade on its predecessor is the chipset, as it will almost certainly use a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 – though it’s possible this chipset will instead be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite.

Numerous OnePlus 13 leaks have pointed to it having a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, and since the OnePlus 12 has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, that’s what we’d expect.

But reportedly the OnePlus 13 has a custom version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 – one that beats the A18 Pro in the iPhone 16 Pro for efficiency.

That should help improve battery life, as should the ability to deliver different refresh rates to different parts of the screen, as mentioned further up in this article. And that’s on top of the OnePlus 13 reportedly having a massive 6,000mAh battery, so it’s likely to excel for stamina.

Leaks also suggest the OnePlus 13 will charge quickly, at up to 100W wired and 50W wireless – though based on past form the US might get slightly lower 80W wired charging speeds.

As for other specs, we’ve heard from leaker Digital Chat Station that the OnePlus 13 could come with up to 24GB of RAM, though the OnePlus 12 also did, but only in China, so there’s every chance international models will once again top out at 16GB.

Can you trust these rumors? 

There are no red flags among the leaked battery or chipset details, and in fact we're almost certain the OnePlus 13 will use the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

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Intel recently launched its 128-core "Granite Rapids" Xeon 6900P processor family, finally offering some true competition to AMD’s EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo server line.

The first reviews praised Intel's new chips, with the overall consensus being that the 6900P range successfully heralded Intel's long-awaited resurgence in the server CPU arena.

While Intel must have been pleased with the reception to its new processors, there was an elephant in the room. The Xeon 6900P processors were pitted up against aging rivals - Genoa is almost two years old now - and AMD had its 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" CPUs in the starting blocks.

(Image credit: Phoronix) Not plain sailing

AMD's new processors have now arrived and the first reviews for the EPYC 9575F, 9755, and 9965 Turin server CPUs are in. As was widely expected, these place AMD right back on top. As Phoronix notes in its review, “The new top-end AMD EPYC Turin processor performance can obliterate the competition in most workloads and delivers a great generational leap in performance and power efficiency."

Phoronix added, “The tested AMD EPYC 9575F high-frequency Turin 64-core processor, EPYC 9755 128-core Turin processor, and EPYC 9965 192-core Turin Dense processors dominated across the wide variety of server, technical computing, and HPC workloads tested. The dual 128-core EPYC 9755 Turin processor was 40% faster than the dual Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids server with MRDIMMs. Even a single EPYC 9755 (and EPYC 9965) effectively matched the dual Xeon 6980P processors in this larger selection of benchmarks than what was initially run for Granite Rapids.”

In its glowing review, Storage Review said, “What sets the EPYC 9005 series apart is its ability to meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises with configurations that scale from entry-level, high-frequency models to super cache-dense chips to multi-core powerhouses. Whether real-time AI inferencing, computational fluid dynamics, large-scale data analytics, or high-resolution 3D rendering, the EPYC lineup delivers single-threaded responsiveness and multi-threaded efficiency. Advanced features like 12-channel DDR5 memory support, PCIe 5.0 lanes, and AMD’s secure, confidential computing make this series a performance upgrade and a comprehensive solution for data centers focused on the future.”

In its review, ServeTheHome said AMD EPYC 9005 Turin delivered a “transcendent” performance, noting that “AMD’s formula was simple: Increase TDP by 25%+, increase core counts by 50%, use new process technology, and update its server processors to Zen 5/ Zen 5c architecture.”

Although the site was hugely impressed by the new chips, STH’s Patrick Kennedy made an interesting observation. “In terms of competing directly with Intel for the top-end sockets vying for the top AI nodes, the situation is a bit more nuanced than one might think. At 192 cores, the Zen 5c-based AMD EPYC 9965 is great for throughput and excellent for virtualization and cloud workloads. Still, at 128 cores with the Intel Granite Rapids-AP versus 128 cores with the AMD EPYC 9755, AMD does not have the same outright leadership that it had before. Or better to say, AMD is no longer competing at the top-end just with itself.”

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The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have grown on me. I liked them a fair bit when I first reviewed them, but the addition of the Meta AI – which has now rolled out beyond the US officially – has made them easily the best AI wearable out there, and one of the best smart glasses you can buy. And it turns out I’m not alone when it comes to being impressed by them.

That’s per EssilorLuxottica's CFO Stefano Grassi who in the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call revealed that the smart specs are the best-selling glasses at 60% of the Ray-Ban stores in the EMEA region (via UploadVR). EssilorLuxottica is Ray-Ban’s parent company, and EMEA stands for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

It’s no wonder then that Grassi called the smart glasses “a success,” and that Meta and EssilorLuxottica have extended their partnership to continue working together on smart specs.

Now, there are a few factors to consider here. Firstly, because we don’t know their total share of sales, the Ray-ban Meta Smart Glasses will still likely be a minor player compared to the company's traditional sunglasses. The Meta-powered specs might be the best-selling model in some Ray-ban stores, but the vast majority of sales will still likely come from the many different shades of standard sunglasses.

Also, Ray-Ban glasses aren’t inexpensive. If you’re already the sort of person who can confidently stroll into a store ready to drop over $100, even $200, on a pair of shades, paying that bit extra for a $299 / £299 / AU$449 pair with speakers and cameras added-on is borderline an impulse buy. Being popular among Ray-Ban purchasers doesn’t make them widely popular.

Despite this, even if you have cash to splash that additional cost isn’t nothing, and it’s interesting – and perhaps a tad worrying – to hear that these wearable recording devices are clearly not as off-putting as the tech was even a decade ago.

Are we ready for a smart glasses revolution?

(Image credit: Future)

When Google Glass launched it was billed as a technological revolution. In reality, they didn’t quite stick the landing.

Price was a factor but I remember a lot of talk about how creepy the specs were if you thought too hard about them. Not just for wearers, who had to adjust to a camera that was (even if it’s not always active) seeing where they were looking at all times, but also for members of the public.

There were several published stories about owners of the camera- and microphone-equipped Google Glass being assaulted because the tech agitated others so significantly. The seemingly less niche Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t seem to have caused a similar or proportional surge in crime.

There are going to be a few reasons for this. The more discrete design of the Ray-Bans plays a part I’m sure, as will the fact that (for better or worse) we’re simply more comfortable with people carrying and using cameras around them every waking moment – you can’t wander around a busy part of a major city for more than 30 minutes and not feature in a dozen or so live streams, vlogs, or viral TikTok dance videos in the making.

For whatever reason, it does seem that smart glasses aren’t just experiencing a technological revolution right now, but a public perception one, too. We probably should be at least a little concerned about big tech companies having access to more or our personal data than ever thanks to smart glasses, and how they might use it (such as training their AI). But from a purely technological perspective, this renewed interest in smart glasses from consumers could spur companies to come up with exciting and competing designs in the coming years.

We’ll have to wait and see what exactly comes from the burgeoning smart glasses space, but news like today’s is starting to convince me that it might actually be a matter of when, not if, we’ll one day all be wearing a pair – as awesome and slightly frightening as that all sounds.

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One of the things I really love about Alien and its sequels is their distinctly low-tech take on high technology: this was a universe of interstellar travel, cryogenic freezing and other wonders run on 1970s computer tech with big clacky buttons and green-hued CRT displays, a design decision that was also carried across to the Alien Isolation video game.

So it's nice to see that Alien: Romulus is committed to the retro-futurist vibe too – so much so that it'll be released on "fully functioning VHS tape" in December with a 4:3 aspect ratio and a vintage-style sleeve.

The news comes via The Verge, which hasn't been able to confirm how many copies of the tape there will be or how much it's going to cost. It's clearly intended to be a collector's item rather than something you'll watch more than once, if at all.

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The age of the VHS officially ended in 2008 when JVC stopped making VHS players, but it went into steep decline in the 1990s when DVD and later, Blu-Ray came along. It's the format I watched the original Alien on, and Aliens too, so it's really nice to see Romulus going onto the format too.

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The US Treasury has announced machine learning AI is being used as part of its fraud detection process, helping it save a record amount of money for the department.

Through this, the department claims to have recovered over $4 billion in improper payments, and $1 billion of that is said to be as a direct result of the machine learning AI that identifies likely instances of check fraud.

Also included, the department claims to have prevented $2.5 billion by identifying and prioritizing high risk transactions, and by expanding risk-based screening which resulted in $500 million in prevention.

Enhanced capabilities

Government departments across the country are adopting AI in their processes. For example, the Nevada state employment department is using AI in the benefit appeals process, which critics say could be less effective but just as time consuming.

Recent reports have revealed AI has made financial fraud significantly easier, so using AI to combat criminals does seem to be the natural next step.

“Treasury takes seriously our responsibility to serve as effective stewards of taxpayer money. Helping ensure that agencies pay the right person, in the right amount, at the right time is central to our efforts,” said Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.

The AI process are likely inspired by similar fraud detection used in the banking industry, which the Treasury department has been quietly utilising for the last two years.

This is likely to be just the start of a new era of machine bureaucracy, as the Treasury and Department of Labor announced a data-sharing partnership,

“We will continue to partner with others in the federal government to equip them with the necessary tools, data, and expertise they need to stop improper payments and fraud.” added Adeyemo.

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While Crowe is known for his Oscar-nominated heroic protagonists in The Insider, A Beautiful Mind and of course the historical epic Gladiator, Unhinged proves that he can steal the screen as a menacing villain.

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What is Unhinged about?

Unhinged was first released in theaters in 2020, but is now available to stream on the best streaming service. In Unhinged, single mother Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is having the worst day ever. Running late for work and stuck in standstill traffic during the school drop-off, Rachel is fired from her job over the phone. But soon her incredibly bad day turns into a full-blown nightmare when she gets into an argument with Tom Cooper (Crowe) after she honks at him for stalling at a green light. Unable to let it go, Tom spirals into a violent rage and pursues Rachel in revenge. As Rachel tries to protect her son Kyle (Gabriel Bateman), she's forced to confront Tom as he becomes even more unhinged and off the rails.

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Cisco has taken its DevHub website offline following a cyberattack and a data leak incident. It also played down the value of the breach and said it shut down the site “out of an abundance of caution”.

Recently, a known data leaker, alias IntelBroker, posted a new thread on the infamous BreachForums, offering Cisco data for sale.

In the thread, the hacker credited EnergyWeaponUser and zjj for the breach, and stated that the archive includes Github projects, Gitlab projects, SonarQube projects, source code, hardcoded credentials, certificates, customer SRCs, confidential documents, Jira tickets, API tokens, AWS private buckets, Cisco Technology SRCs, Docker builds, Azure Storage buckets, private & public keys, SSL certificates, and more.

Exposed API token

Cisco responded by saying it was investigating the breach, and has now come forward with additional information.

“Based on our investigations, we are confident that there has been no breach of our systems,” Cisco said. “We have determined that the data in question is on a public-facing DevHub environment—a Cisco resource center that enables us to support our community by making available software code, scripts, etc. for customers to use as needed. We have determined that a small number of files that were not authorized for public download may have been published.”

The announcement also states there is no evidence of personally identifiable information (PII) or financial data being exposed this way, but Cisco is continuing its investigation.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we have disabled public access to the site while we continue the investigation.”

But IntelBroker disagrees that there was no breach. Speaking to BleepingComputer, they said they gained access to a Cisco third-party developer environment through an exposed API token. They also told the publication that they had access to Cisco’s developer environment, and even shared screenshots as proof.

“While Cisco continues to say that no systems were breached, everything we have seen does indicate that a third-party development was breached, allowing the threat actor to steal data,” the publication concluded.

Via BleepingComputer

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