Microsoft has introduced official support for Intel’s Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) in Windows 11 Insider build 29695. While no consumer PCs can currently take advantage of the instruction… Continue reading
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Parallels Desktop Flaw Lets Non-Admin Mac Users Gain Root, but Intel Macs Can’t Install Fix
Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog… Continue reading
Researchers have disclosed a new hardware attack, called DDRop, that breaks the memory protection in Intel and AMD confidential computing by silently dropping writes to a server’s memory,… Continue reading
Looking to build a new gaming PC in 2026? Component prices are already at record highs, with memory production capacity for 2027 already sold out and the prices… Continue reading
Leaks have been coming through thick and fast for Intel’s upcoming lineup of Nova Lake-S processors, including last month’s alleged benchmarks of a high-end chip which indicates it… Continue reading
While computer memory continues to get snapped up by server farms causing prices of DDR5 RAM to rise to record levels, Intel has promised that its upcoming Nova… Continue reading
Intel has relaunched its Gamer Days Bundle promotion. This time, Intel is offering buyers two free games with qualifying processors, graphics products, and prebuilt systems. Running from August… Continue reading
An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the… Continue reading
