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Linus Torvalds doesn’t take anything that’s being hyped and made bigger than what it is. In a Google+ thread, he slammed the Israel-based security company CTS Labs by calling their security advisory a “garbage”. Just a couple of days back, CTS researchers exposed more than a dozen ‘critical’ vulnerabilities in AMD chips marketed under the brand […]
CTS Labs’ researchers have warned that if you’re running an AMD Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, Ryzen Mobile or EPYC processor on your computer then you might be at risk. It is also reported that the chips contain backdoors that could be used by attackers to exploit target devices. In what the researchers have called a ‘severe […]
On Thursday, AMD unzipped their lips more on the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre bugs. While the company has stuck to their claims that their processors are at near-zero risk from Meltdown, the chips are not immune to Spectre bugs. AMD’s stocks fell by around 2% in the after-hours post the announcement. According to a blog […]
Just yesterday, a report from The Register disclosed a massive security screwup on behalf of Intel, which impacted nearly all chips manufactured in the past ten years. It was also reported that future patches released by the developers of Windows and Linux kernel could reduce the performance of devices up to 5-30%. That’s a lot. […]
Short Bytes: OpenCAPI is a consortium formed by tech leaders AMD, Google, IBM, Micron, and Mellanox which aims to provide an open platform and collaborative development of server architecture. The consortium will maintain the OpenCAPI standard to release specifications for server accelerator hardware. The technology sector is becoming more and more “open” because the big […]
Short Bytes: With the release of polished Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it’s time to compare the performance of different graphics cards and drivers on Windows 10 and Ubuntu LTS. The benchmark tests of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards show that the graphics performance on Linux machine gives a tough competition to Windows 10. Millions of people […]
Short Bytes: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus won’t be supporting fglrx — AMD’s closed source Catalyst Linux driver. Instead, AMD and Ubuntu recommend the users to go for open source radeon and amdgpu options. So, Linux gamers with AMD hardware might want to wait before pressing the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade button. If we make a […]