The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based ...

While it would be nice to have a computer that would last forever, the unfortunate truth is that everything becomes old and outdated. This is particularly true with CPUs, especially as technological ...

AMD has officially confirmed a high-severity security vulnerability in its new Zen 5–based CPUs, and it’s a nasty one because it hits cryptography right at the source: the hardware random number ...

The new attack method can leak privileged kernel memory on CPUs released in the past six years that have hardware mitigations for speculative execution and branch injection attacks like Spectre. Six ...

The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps. Openings enable gradual reading of entire privilege memory ...

Bottom line: Chipmakers typically use microcode updates to fix bugs and improve CPU reliability. However, this low-level layer between hardware and machine code can also serve as a stealthy attack ...

Intel has issued new firmware to further fix stability issues on 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The new update is said to have almost no performance impact. Back in August 2024, Intel confirmed ...

Suppose you’re a Raptor Lake guru (Raptor Lake is Intel's codename for the 13th as well as 14th generations of Intel Core processors). In that case, you might’ve noticed that Intel just rolled out ...

Intel has confirmed that it's about to issue another microcode update for its 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs, meaning you'll need to update your motherboard BIOS again. As with the raft of ...

Anyone owning an AMD CPU with Zen 1 - Zen 4 microarchitecture may want to double check their BIOS is up to date. According to Tom's Hardware, AMD CPUs with a BIOS patch earlier than 2014-12-17 have a ...

The Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) function of AMD server processors is less secure than the name suggests: Google researchers found that Epyc processors are sloppy when it comes to signature ...