This week, well-known hardware enthusiast and occasional leaker Алексей (@wxnod on Xwitter) spotted something unprecedented: a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory module packed with Chinese-made ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) DRAM chips. With the AI industry currently swallowing up the world’s standard memory supply and driving prices through
Chromium, the base upon which Google Chrome and several other browsers including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi, is under attack. Sadly, the attack may have been avoidable, but since Google accidentally publicly posted proof of concept exploit code that was meant to remain private to Chromium developers, attackers can now use the exploit