Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep
and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains Why Its Connect Live...
Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and total cost of ownership, but software bugs hold it back
This NVidia monopoly on #ai hardware is not good for anybody. … X: Nicholas Wilt / @cudahandbook : NVIDIA to churn the hardware instruction set with abandon, sometimes even committing featurecide and ...
Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all its customers
“We hear clearly that customers don't want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we've added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. … X: @cloudfl...
Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware :
[Thread] A look at the “black magic” that lets Apple's M1 chip achieve extraordinary performance and efficiency gains
1/ In case you were wondering: Apple's replacement for Intel processors turns out to work really, really well. Some otherwise skeptical techies are calling it “black magic”. It runs Intel code extraor...
Researchers disclose new remote attack method for extracting data from Intel CPUs using a power monitor interface, with Linux most at risk; Intel issues patches
this time thanks to on-chip power meter Thomas Claburn / The Register : One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts SecLists.Org Securit...
GravityRAT malware, known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows PCs to detect virtual machines or sandboxes, now also targets Android and macOS devices
GravityRAT, a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to detect virtual machines or sandboxes …
Researchers: Intel CPUs vulnerable to new “LVI” attacks, which let attackers inject and execute code inside the CPU, theoretically even from a site's JavaScript
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Microsoft and Google disclose Speculative Store Bypass CPU flaw that exploits speculative execution and is similar to Spectre and Meltdown
New firmware updates are on the way — Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that's similar to the Meltdown …
Microsoft launches bounty program for speculative execution CPU bugs, offering to pay up to $250K for new flaws through December 31
Tom Warren / The Verge :