Lenovo Covering Its Tracks? Latest Laptop Security Flaw By Lucian Armasu published 27 August 19 Pen Test Partners security researchers found an eight-year old bug in Lenovo laptops that Lenovo then reportedly attempted to hide.
Report: Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Partners Inching Away as Regulators Near By Lucian Armasu published 23 August 19 Some of the backers of Facebook's Libra digital currency are considering terminating their partnership with Facebook to avoid government scrutiny.
Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat Open Source Tools for 'Confidential Computing' By Lucian Armasu published 21 August 19 Multiple Linux Foundation members committed to promote the use of secure enclaves via the newly formed Confidential Computing Consortium.
Nvidia Sees Sequential Revenue Growth in Q2 2019 By Lucian Armasu published 16 August 19 Nvidia announced it is back to sequential revenue growth, even as the company's revenues are significantly lower compared to a year ago.
Micron Begins Mass Production Of 16Gb 1z-Class DDR4 RAM By Lucian Armasu published 16 August 19 Micron announced that it had begun volume production of 1z nm 16Gb DDR4 RAM products, a first in the industry.
U.S. Federal Agencies Issue Ambitious Roadmap For AI Development By Lucian Armasu published 15 August 19
Undocumented Windows Protocol Enabled Full System Compromise For 20 Years By Lucian Armasu published 15 August 19 Google's Tavis Ormandy found an almost 20-year-old design flaw in the undocumented Windows CTF subsystem that could have allowed attackers to fully compromise systems.
Suprema's BioStar 2 System Kept Biometrics, Passwords In Plaintext By Lucian Armasu published 15 August 19
Huawei Employees Helped African Governments Spy On Opponents, Bypass Encryption By Lucian Armasu published 15 August 19 A new WSJ report revealed how Huawei employees have been aiding African government intelligence agencies spy on political opponents. Huawei has denied the allegations.
Intel Patches High-Severity Bugs In NUC Kit, Software Tools By Lucian Armasu published 15 August 19 Intel issued patches for multiple security flaws affecting NUC Kit and other related devices, as well as some Intel software tools.
New Malware Norman Uses Your PC to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency By Lucian Armasu published 14 August 19 Varonis security firm found a unique new strain of cryptoming malware that deploys sophisticated evading techniques to avoid getting caught.
Microsoft Patches New Wormable Bugs in Massive Security Update By Lucian Armasu published 14 August 19 Microsoft patched 93 security vulnerabilities for the month of August, including two new wormable bugs.
Arm, GlobalFoundries Test High-Performance 3D Chips By Lucian Armasu published 8 August 19 GlobalFoundries announces partnership with Arm to develop 3D Arm-based chips for high-performance data center and consumer applications.
Red Hat Joins Foundation for Developing Open-Source RISC-V ISA By Lucian Armasu published 8 August 19 Red Hat, now part of IBM, joined the RISC-V Foundation to develop support for the open-source instruction set architecture in its Linux distributions.
Samsung's 7nm Exynos 9825 Updates Efficiency (But Not Much Else) By Lucian Armasu published 7 August 19 Samsung announced the Exynos 9825, a refresh of the Exynos 9820 SoC. It's built on the company's 7nm EUV process for significant power efficiency improvements.
Pentagon Suspends Cloud Contract to Investigate Potential Amazon Favoritism By Lucian Armasu published 2 August 19 The Pentagon suspends awarding of the $10 billion contract as the new Defense Secretary investigates if the selection process has been rigged to favor Amazon.
Cisco to Pay $8.6M for Knowingly Selling Hackable Surveillance Gear to US Government By Lucian Armasu published 1 August 19 Cisco has agreed to a settlement with whistleblower James Glenn, the U.S. federal government and multiple state governments over its surveillance technology.
Former HR VP Says IBM Wanted to Look 'Cool' to Millennials, Fired 100,000 Workers By Lucian Armasu published 1 August 19 After firing over 100,000 employees, IBM is facing discrimination lawsuits accusing the company of targeting older workers to be "trendy."
Steam Proposes Linux Kernel Changes To Improve Multi-Threaded Games By Lucian Armasu published 1 August 19 Steam developers have proposed some changes to the Linux kernel that would reduce the CPU load for multi-threaded Windows games that run on Linux via the WINE-based Proton utility.
TSMC Upgrades 7nm, 5nm Processes For Performance By Lucian Armasu published 31 July 19 TSMC has quietely introduced the performance-enhanced N7P and N5P versions of the N7 and N5 nodes, respectively.
AMD’s Epyc Potential Win: Google May Ditch Intel By Lucian Armasu published 30 July 19 A new report said that Google has been building its own servers with AMD Epyc CPUs as it considers a switch to AMD over Intel.
Alibaba Unveils Open Source RISC-V CPU Amid US-China Trade War By Lucian Armasu published 26 July 19 Alibaba announced its first-ever RISC-V-based processor of its on design, Xuantie 910. It plans to outsource production of the chip to local Chinese firms.
Huawei's Arm-y: Vendor Investing Millions in Server Chip Ecosystem By Lucian Armasu published 24 July 19 Huawei said that it will continue to develop its Arm-based Kunpeng server CPUs and will invest $436 million in the ecosystem around it over the next five years.
