The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based ...

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 ...

AMD has addressed the latest issue regarding its Zen 5 CPUs’ behavior when it comes to the utilization of the RDSEED instruction in 16-bit and 32-bit applications. Discovered by a Meta engineer last ...

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and ...

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 ...

AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. The security flaw (CVE-2024-56161) ...

A security vulnerability has been disclosed in AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) that could permit an attacker to load a malicious CPU microcode under specific conditions. The flaw, tracked ...

When AMD finally issued patches for its critical microcode security hole on Monday, it said that the glitch 'could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization protection.' AMD on Monday issued ...

What just happened? AMD has confirmed a security vulnerability in some of its processors, which was inadvertently revealed through a beta BIOS update from Asus. The flaw, described as a "microcode ...