All systems can be exploited. Whether that’s a freebie giveaway or computer hardware, humans will often find the weaknesses. Back in in 2018, Intel first swallowed this bitter pill when the widespread Spectre vulnerability came…
Intel continued its climb up the clock-speed ladder by launching the Core i9-14900KS, a “special edition” desktop chip that offers the very fastest clock speed of any current PC processor, at 6.2GHz. As expected, though,…
AMD has been all the rage with gamers lately, as its Ryzen X3D series of CPUs with extra V-Cache boosts gaming performance for both PC builders and pre-builts. But Intel is still far in the…
For the launch of Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG Starfield, AMD made a customized version of its flagship GPU, the fire-breathing Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Only 500 of these limited edition cards were made, and you can’t…
Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation. That’s why nerds are obsessed with them. And not just nerds: companies use third-party…
AMD had a certified hit with its game-boosting Ryzen 7 5800X3D chip, sporting extra V-cache, back in 2022. The follow-ups to this design have only gotten better, and if you’re building a PC for gaming,…
?Jan 18, 2024?NewsroomServer Security / Cryptocurrency Vulnerable Docker services are being targeted by a novel campaign in which the threat actors are deploying XMRig cryptocurrency miner as well as the 9Hits Viewer software as part…