Ensuring your computer’s processor is healthy can be vital to stable performance, yet it is easy to overlook the signs of impending failure. Many PC enthusiasts are concerned about advanced processor ...

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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 ...

Lucid is a developer-oriented IDA Pro plugin for exploring the Hex-Rays microcode. It was designed to provide a seamless, interactive experience for studying microcode transformations in the ...

Semiconductor company AMD is warning of a new set of vulnerabilities affecting a broad range of chipsets that could lead to information disclosure. The flaws, collectively called Transient Scheduler ...

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 ...

What just happened? A significant vulnerability, known as EntrySign, has been uncovered by Google security researchers, affecting all AMD Zen processors from Zen 1 to Zen 4. This flaw allows attackers ...

Installing an Intel microcode update, specifically version 0x129, on ASUS motherboards can enhance system stability and security. This guide will walk you through the step-by-step process for a ...

The MICROCODE_REVISION_MISMATCH Windows blue screen, with error code 0x0000017E, appears when processors have an inconsistent microcode loaded. In most cases, the ...

The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ ...

I have been interested in science and technology for as long as I can remember, spurred on by a fondness for video games. I learned to work in Windows and manipulate files to get buggy games to work, ...