Cue the scene: The holiday gifts are unwrapped. You’re crowing happily about a new laptop or desktop PC. You boot the PC for the first time, and Windows asks you to create an account and set up a password. Your first instinct is to try evading the prompt, so that you don’t have to deal…
According to a report by Phoronix, Ryzen 7000 processors are fir some reason running faster with security mitigations enabled vs disabled in the new Linux version 6.0. Nobody knows why this anomaly exists in AMD’s Zen 4 architecture, but as a result of the discovery, it is recommended to keep all relevant security mitigations enabled…
Invector Labs revealed a new board, currently titled Challenger Model 2040, featuring the RP2040 system-on-a-chip that sets itself apart from many of its contemporaries by offering built-in Wi-Fi support and uses Adafruit’s Feather layout. The RP2040 is the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s first custom SoC. It debuted in the Raspberry Pi Pico in January, and in…
