Downfall Vulnerability Affects Millions of Intel CPUs With Strong Data Leak Impact
Learn technical details about this newly disclosed security vulnerability, as well as mitigation recommendations from the Google researcher who discovered it.
Hardware
Amazon Has More Than Half of All Arm Server CPUs in the World
Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed, while some chipmakers are also now betting on Arm-based Windows PCs. From a report: This information comes from a…
Gigabyte’s New RTX 4060 GPU Fits Three Fans on a Low-Profile Design
Gigabyte has launched a new low-profile GeForce RTX 4060 OC graphics card that’s designed to fit into mini PC builds. Unlike many of the other GPUs meant for compact PCs, this one comes with three fans instead of just two or one. From a report: That th…
Superconductor Breakthrough Claims Traced to a Basement Lab in Seoul
In a neighborhood in Seoul there’s an ordinary red-brick, four-story building, reports Bloomberg — but there’s something unique about the building’s basement office. It’s somehow the registered address of the Centre “whose extraordinary claims ab…
Raspberry Pi Availability Is Visibly Improving After Years of Shortages
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has been saying for months that 2023 would be a “recovery year” for Raspberry Pi supply — the single-board computer, once known for its easy availability and affordabil…
A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments
Derek Lowe, a medicinal chemist and freelance writer on science and pharmaceutical topics, comments on the latest developments around last week’s remarkable claim of a well-above-room-temperature superconducting material at ambient pressure, dubbed LK-…
Water-Soluble Circuit Boards Could Cut Carbon Footprints By 60 Percent
German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG announced that it’s producing a printed circuit board (PCB) that dissolves in water. Engadget reports: Jiva’s biodegradable PCB is made from natural fibers and a halogen-free polymer with a much lower…
Server Inventory Checklist
It’s important to maintain accurate infrastructure inventories to assist secure and effective network administration. A checklist, like the accompanying file from TechRepublic Premium, is an easy and efficient way to begin the process of maintaining ac…
Hardware-bound passkeys are still ultimate in security: Yubico VP
Derek Hanson, Yubico’s VP of standards and alliances and an industry expert on passkeys, discusses why device-bound-to-shareable passkeys are critical.
Flip Phones Are Having a Moment
What’s old is hot again, and flip phones are so very hot right now. From a report: These phones are a far cry from the phone that you mastered T9 texting on in college. Today’s flip phones are garden-variety 2023 smartphones that happen to fold in half…