On our endurance test, Qualcomm's well-documented Snapdragon X power efficiency came through once again, giving the IdeaPad 5x just shy of a full day's worth of juice (23 hours and 56 minutes). That ...

During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) ...

I ignored BIOS updates until I learned Intel's CPUs were cooking themselves without them.

A hardware modder on Overclock.net reports successfully booting Windows 11 on Intel’s OEM-only Core 9 273PQE “Bartlett Lake” CPU using a standard Asus Z790 LGA1700 motherboard after crafting custom ...

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow both the ...

Due to Intel CPU microcode sizes continuing to get larger and late-loading new CPU microcode onto a running system can lead to (brief) disruptions/downtime while the update is applied, future Intel ...

Ransomware, a malicious software designed to take control of computers and data and extort victims, continues to evolve alarmingly. Recently, researcher Christiaan Beek has shared his concern about ...

Ransomware is a particularly vile type of malware that holds a device hostage by disabling it until the owner pays a ransom. Ransomware has been a sad reality of the computer world for decades now, ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD has confirmed a flaw within its signature verification for microcode updates within Zen 1 to Zen 5 CPUs. This security flaw has been dubbed "EntrySign" ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

===== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7269-2 February 24, 2025 intel-microcode vulnerabilities ===== A security issue ...