The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs during work or study hours?
As we enter this Judgment-Free Zone today — Chris swiffered up the remaining judgment from yesterday’s Daily Grind, don’t worry — we have to ask...
Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard
A modder has successfully booted a 12-core Bartlett Lake-S CPU into Windows using a modified BIOS on an Asus Z790 motherboard.
‘Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,’ says Windows veteran reminiscing about company’s past focus on speed — asserts that ‘everything’ was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s
A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.
Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat
A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.
New ‘GeForge’ and ‘GDDRHammer’ attacks can fully infiltrate your system through Nvidia’s GPU memory — Rowhammer attacks in GPUs force bit flips in protected VRAM regions to gain read/write access
Two new Rowhammer attacks for GPUs have been discovered that can cause bit flips in VRAM to gain arbitrary read/write access over it. These attacks target page files and the page directory that are otherwise protected from electrical disturbance by the driver. By “massaging” these data structures into vulnerable regions where a bit flip can occur, the attacker can access even the CPU memory.
Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going
Researchers from the Leiden University in The Netherlands used cutting-edge 3D printing technology to create these microrobots that measure just 0.5 micrometers across.
Find and Kill Your Own Clone in Indie Roguelite Horror Game ‘It Has My Face’, Which Launches into 1.0 Today
Indie first-person horror roguelite It Has My Face, released into 1.0 today, has a simple premise: in a dystopian world full of deception, you have...
FFXIV FanFest Anaheim’s Full Schedule Goes Live, Including Free Streamed Panels
The full schedule for in-person and streamed panels at the Anaheim event is live, showing a broad offering of development and fan-focused events focused on...
The Stream Team: Becoming a Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
Highway to the danger zone. Clone fight in the danger zone! When Massively OP wants to get funky on a Friday, she looks for something...
Ashes of Creation Case: Sharif’s Injunction Request Denied, IP Sale Reversed, But Company Still Wants to Sell
The Ashes of Creation legal situation has a few major developments, including an injunction denied in Steven Sharif's case, and the IP sale reversed, but...