AI breakthroughs, zero-day exploits, and layoffs reveal how this week’s tech news pivots on fast-moving artificial ...

WhatsApp’s new “Private Inference” feature represents one of the most ambitious attempts to combine end-to-end encryption with AI-powered capabilities, such as message summarization. To make this ...

A technical partnership embraces SambaNova Systems, which Intel’s chief, Lip-Bu Tan, helps lead as an investor and chairman. By Don Clark Reporting from San Francisco Intel, which has lagged in making ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

CPU manufacturers must address issues that arise with processors already on the market, especially the errors that are discovered over time. To handle this, Intel has released a new version of ...

TL;DR: A critical GIGABYTE motherboard vulnerability allows local attackers to execute code in System Management Mode (SMM), bypassing security on Intel 8th to 11th Gen platforms. GIGABYTE has ...

A team of computer scientists from ETH Zurich has uncovered a new security vulnerability that affects all Intel processors. This issue is linked to a technology called speculative execution, which ...

Intel’s patch for CPUs designed to prevent new vulnerabilities in the company’s processors resulted in performance hits on older Intel chips. The exploit was identified by researchers from ETH ZZurich ...

All Intel processors since 2018 are affected by Branch Privilege Injection. The image shows an example of an Intel server system. Anyone who speculates on likely events ahead of time and prepares ...

Intel has issued new firmware to further fix stability issues on 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The new update is said to have almost no performance impact. Back in August 2024, Intel confirmed ...

A hot potato: Users with 13th- and 14th-generation Intel desktop processors should begin checking for BIOS updates from their motherboard providers. A new microcode update fixes edge cases that can ...

Intel has confirmed that it's about to issue another microcode update for its 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs, meaning you'll need to update your motherboard BIOS again. As with the raft of ...