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Critical ‘Zoomsday’ flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of mill

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First, the scientists decompiled the Android package and asked an AI agent to rank the potential attack surfaces to relatively little success. They then turned their attention to the communications protocol. They found t…

Modder straps two desktop CPU coolers to ZTE handset, turns smartphone into a gaming PC — Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with 24GB of RAM runs The Witcher 3 at 1080p ul

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The creator claims to have successfully run Windows applications and games, including The Witcher 3 . The system was able to run the game at 1080p resolution with the Ultra graphics preset, delivering around 20–30 FPS. N…

Just one instruction on AMD’s 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets y

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With the map now in your possession, you can now disable Swizzle and force a read or write to normally inaccessible areas of the DRAM, since you now know where it will land. With this, you can access all the previously h…

Just one instruction on AMD’s 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets y

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With the map now in your possession, you can now disable Swizzle and force a read or write to normally inaccessible areas of the DRAM, since you now know where it will land. With this, you can access all the previously h…

Older Raptor Lake CPUs are a ‘core part of the portfolio’ for years to come, says Intel — there’s been a ‘sudden inrush of demand’ for LGA 1700 chips due to DDR

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usertests Jabberwocky79 said: I’d be happy to upgrade to a (reliable) 14900K at some point. That’s the thing, isn’t it. Is the errata actually fixed or merely covered up with microcode patches (and subject to popping up …

Alabama residents left powerless to stop massive Bitcoin mining data center despite county and town moratoriums — hole in state zoning laws lets facility throug

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Bruno Ferreira is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware. He has decades of experience with PC hardware and assorted sundries, alongside a career as a developer. He’s obsessed with detail and has a tendency to ramble o…