Articles by Bruno Ferreira, Contributor

Bruno Ferreira's journey kicked off with the venerable ZX Spectrum, a cassette player, and his hopes and dreams. He quickly realized he had more fun figuring out how computers work than he did actually using the things. Kicking off a developer career with C and Assembly before moving to scripting languages, he's worn many hats, including both database architect and systems administration. As a teen, Bruno co-founded a web development outfit where he was for 17 years before moving on to spend nearly a decade at The Tech Report as a writer, editor, and (of course) developer. In this decade, he's been at Asus, MLCommons, and HotHardware, among others. When not fiddling with computers and games, his love for music and production sends him off to live shows and festivals. Occasionally, he pretends he can play the guitar and bass.

Articles by: Bruno Ferreira

Data center developers building private natural gas 'Shadow Grid' power plants to sidestep strained grids — off-grid GW Ranch project in Texas will reportedly use as much power as Chicago

By Bruno Ferreira published 21 February 26

Data centers using natural gas plants to sidestep power grids at the cost of carbon emissions

Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives — website operator caught tweaking their own archive

By Bruno Ferreira published 21 February 26

Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today

Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers — German website finds a workaround (Update)

By Bruno Ferreira published 20 February 26

Update Asus and Acer bring German websites down, leaving users without support or downloads due to the companies' recent spat with Nokia over the HEVC codec.

California bill would restrict 3D printer sales to state-approved models to prevent printing gun parts — joins Washington and NY on legal offensive

By Bruno Ferreira published 20 February 26

California 3D printer control bill would restrict sale to DOJ-approved models

After 17 years, Minecraft Java Edition starts replacing OpenGL with a Vulkan multi-threaded renderer — update will prove a boon for performance and modding

By Bruno Ferreira published 20 February 26

Minecraft Java Edition will get a Vulkan multi-threaded renderer, replacing the aging OpenGL.

Phison CEO thinks NAND shortages could shut down entire consumer electronics companies in 2026 — claims at least one foundry demands three-year cash payment upfront

By Bruno Ferreira published 18 February 26

Phison CEO says NAND shortages can kill consumer electronics companies in 2026

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

An AMD Helios rack and a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack

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

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