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A new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors risks burying Hyper-Threading: patches-switches are out

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It would seem that after the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities discovered more than a year ago, nothing would scare fans and users of Intel processors. And yet the company managed to surprise us again. More precisely, researchers of vulnerabilities in the microarchitecture of Intel processors were surprised. A package of new vulnerabilities under the general name microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) threatens to put an end to multi-threaded computing technologies or […]

Bethesda accidentally helped pirates rid RAGE 2 from Denuvo

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Austrian Denuvo DRM protection does not pose a serious problem for hackers even in the latest versions. Most games are released from it a few days or even hours after the premiere. The shooter RAGE 14, released on May 2, the presence of this system in which it became known shortly before release, also managed to quickly get rid of it. However, the case turned out to be atypical: due to [...]

Acer's new 27β€³ gaming monitor delivers sub-1ms response time

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Acer has expanded its range of monitors by announcing the XF270HCbmiiprx model, which is based on a 27-inch diagonal TN matrix. The panel has a resolution of 1920 Γ— 1080 pixels, which corresponds to Full HD format. 72% coverage of the NTSC color space is claimed. Horizontal and vertical viewing angles are up to 170 and 160 degrees, respectively. The new product features AMD FreeSync technology, providing […]

Robotization will affect women workers more than men

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Experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the results of a study that examined the impact of robotization on the world of work. Robots and artificial intelligence systems have recently demonstrated rapid development. They are able to perform routine tasks with higher efficiency than humans. And therefore, robotic systems are being adopted by a variety of companies - from cellular […]

Lenovo unveils thin ThinkBook S laptops and powerful second-generation ThinkPad X1 Extreme

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Lenovo has introduced a new series of thin and light laptops for business users called ThinkBook. In addition, the Chinese manufacturer introduced the ThinkPad X1 Extreme laptop of the second generation (Gen 2), which combines small thickness and powerful internals. At the moment, Lenovo has introduced only two ThinkBook S models in the new family, which are characterized by a small thickness. Friend […]

Sometimes more is less. When a decrease in load leads to an increase in latency

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As in most of the posts, there was a problem with a distributed service, let's call this service Alvin. This time I didn't find the problem myself, I was informed by the guys from the client side. I woke up one day to a dissatisfied email due to long delays at Alvin, which we were planning to launch soon. Specifically, the client experienced 99th percentile latency in […]

GOG is giving away a keg of cards and The Witcher Deluxe Edition to Gwent players

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The GOG.com store has launched a promotion that will appeal to all Gwent fans. CD Projekt RED is giving away a barrel of cards for its shareware project, and is also giving away a copy of the expanded version of the first The Witcher. To receive gifts, you just need to have Gwent installed in the GOG Galaxy launcher library. The first part of the Witcher series comes with a soundtrack, a digital art book, an exclusive interview […]

Video: Lenovo showed the world's first bendable PC

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Foldable smartphones are already starting to be promoted as promising, but still experimental devices. Regardless of how successful this approach turns out to be, the industry has no plans to stop there. For example, Lenovo showed off the world's first foldable PC: a prototype ThinkPad laptop that uses the folding principle we're already familiar with from phone examples, but on a larger scale. Curious, […]

Amazon hints at a return to the smartphone market after the Fire fiasco

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Amazon may yet make a comeback in the smartphone market, despite its high-profile failure with the Fire phone. Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of devices and services, told The Telegraph that if Amazon succeeds in creating a "differentiated concept" for smartphones, it would make a second attempt at entering that market. β€œThis is a large market segment […]

New Article: Gigabyte Aorus RGB M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Backlight Size Doesn't Matter

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Today's review is interesting for at least two reasons. The first is an SSD produced by Gigabyte, which is not at all associated with storage devices. And yet, this Taiwanese manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is systematically expanding the range of devices offered, adding more and more new types of computer equipment to the range. Not long ago we tested released under [...]

Exchange Vulnerability: How To Detect Privilege Elevation To Domain Admin

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A vulnerability discovered this year in Exchange allows any domain user to gain domain administrator rights and compromise Active Directory (AD) and other connected hosts. Today we will explain how this attack works and how to detect it. Here's how this attack works: An attacker takes over the account of any domain user with an active mailbox in order to subscribe to the […]

Looking for vulnerabilities in UC Browser

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Introduction At the end of March, we reported that we discovered a hidden ability to download and run unverified code in UC Browser. Today we will analyze in detail how this download occurs and how hackers can use it for their own purposes. Some time ago, UC Browser was advertised and distributed very aggressively: it was installed on users' devices using malware, distributed with […]

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