Tech tinkerer gets Gemini to help him 'vibe code' an x86 motherboard design — bot help was impressive, but project still required human awareness and intervention By Bruno Ferreira published 17 February 26 Tech thinkerer gets Gemini to help him design an x86 motherboard
Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves due to poor software security — superpower granted via poor-quality software with hardcoded high-level credentials By Bruno Ferreira published 17 February 26 Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves
Notorious 'Archive Today' website allegedly leads bizarre DDoS campaign against security blogger — Wikipedia considers removing all links to the Archive By Bruno Ferreira published 15 February 26 Wikipedia may remove links to Archive Today due to DDoS spat
Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset's EDAC driver — removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset By Bruno Ferreira published 15 February 26 Linux kernel 7.0 does away with 440BX EDAC driver
Ponzi schemer behind $201 million Bitcoin scam sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — promised 3% daily returns on Bitcoin investments, left investors reeling By Bruno Ferreira published 14 February 26 BTC Ponzi scheme yields 20 years in prison for mastermind
7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive By Bruno Ferreira published 14 February 26 7x DRAM price jump affecting ISP routers, gateways, and STBs
Tachyum forced to shutter R&D office due to unpaid rent, wages, and taxes — firm still claims forthcoming Prodigy chip will have a 21x performance leap on Nvidia Rubin Ultra By Bruno Ferreira published 13 February 26 Tachyum forced to vacate R&D office due to unpaid rent, wages, and taxes
Unofficial 7-zip.com website served up malware-laden downloads for over a week — infected PCs forced into a proxy botnet By Bruno Ferreira published 12 February 26 Always get your wares from reputable sources.
South Korean exchange's $40B Bitcoin mistake casts pall over country's fledgling crypto legislation — staffer fat-fingered 620,000 BTC instead of Korean Won By Bruno Ferreira published 11 February 26
John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM By Bruno Ferreira published 9 February 26 John Carmack considers fiber as an L2 cache for streaming AI data.
Torvalds confirms Linux Kernel 7.0 is almost ready for release, bringing many performance improvements with it — desktop use and gaming may see boost, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hopes to use as default Kernel By Bruno Ferreira published 9 February 26 Linux Torvalds confirms that the Linux kernel 7.0 is almost ready with multiple performance improvements. We could see it in April with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Nitrogen ransomware programmers lock themselves out of a payment — key management bug encrypts victims' data forever By Bruno Ferreira published 7 February 26 Bug in Nitrogen ransomware locks victims' data way forever
Security researcher says AMD auto-updater downloads software insecurely, enabling remote code execution — company rep reportedly said man-in-the-middle attacks are "out of scope," ignored bug By Bruno Ferreira published 7 February 26 AMD auto-update delivers software insecurely, company says MITM attacks are "out of scope"
Big Tech stocks take a $1 trillion tumble as projected AI spending continues to outweigh revenue — investors are antsy about long-term planning becoming never-ending spending By Bruno Ferreira published 6 February 26 Big Tech stocks take a $1 trillion tumble as projected AI spending continues outweighing revenue
Noctua celebrates sending out its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit — milestone marks two decades of the free program By Bruno Ferreira published 6 February 26 Noctua celebrates its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit
Razer Boomslang 20th anniversary edition is as l33t a mouse as they come, for a princely $1,337 — legacy lives on two decades onwards By Bruno Ferreira published 5 February 26 Razer celebrates Boomslang's 20 years with a $1,337 edition
Jim Keller's Tenstorrent is downgrading Blackhole p150 cards from 140 to 120 tensor cores via firmware update — will ship cards with 120 tensor cores going forward, company claims existing users should expect 1-2% performance drop By Bruno Ferreira published 5 February 26 Tenstorrent downgrades existing and new Blackhole p150 cards from 140 to 120 tensor cores
HetCCL makes clustered Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators play nice with each other via RDMA — vendor-agnostic collective communications library removes an obstacle to heterogeneous AI data centers By Bruno Ferreira published 4 February 26 HetCCL, a proposed computing library, could make Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators play nicely with one another in the same cluster by bridging the two companies' hardware over RDMA.
AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture — replacement for decades-old IDT can improve performance and stability By Bruno Ferreira published 2 February 26 AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture
Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once — 31.4 Tb/s attack was large enough to take entire countries offline By Bruno Ferreira published 31 January 26 Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness' By Bruno Ferreira published 30 January 26 Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved
Microsoft's gaming division flounders while the firm makes more money than ever — Xbox consoles sales drop 32% By Bruno Ferreira published 30 January 26 Xbox consoles sales drop 32% while Microsoft makes more money than ever
Ongoing trade war has TSMC and Taiwan stuck between a rock and a hard place — concerns mount surrounding U.S deals cracking the nation's silicon shield By Bruno Ferreira published 29 January 26 Premium The ongoing trade war puts Taiwan and TSMC in a difficult position. As negotiations continue, the country risks giving up its most precious commodity, the might of TSMC.
After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds — formal plan drawn up now community is 'getting grey and old' By Bruno Ferreira published 28 January 26 Linux kernel community draws up contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds
Undersea cable cutting shenanigans lead Finland to create a dedicated maritime surveillance center — Russian shadow fleet operations heighten concerns in the Baltic Sea By Bruno Ferreira published 28 January 26 Finland creates a maritime surveillance center to prevent undersea cable cutting shenanigans
