Hardware Busters

A gold hexagon on the box reads CYBENETICS GOLD. The certification database has never heard of the brand. A certification badge is worth exactly as much as the testing behind it. That makes badges an obvious thing to counterfeit, and it makes the counterf

A developer chasing a Bluetooth handoff bug found two obfuscated Alibaba scripts quietly building audio graphs in the background. Most tracking gets caught by people who go looking for it. This case of WebAudio fingerprinting got caught because a pair of

A PC Gamer interview turned the Epic Games Store into a three-way disagreement between a research firm, its own analyst, and the store he was talking about. Emmanuel Rosier, director of market intelligence at Newzoo, gave the storefront a blunt verdict in

The memory squeeze has reached the one company you would think could absorb it. Nvidia AI server prices are going up by more than 15% in many configurations, and the company has already told its biggest customers why: memory. Bloomberg reported the warnin

AMD's own compiler engineer raised one number by three. A SPEC CPU test got 12% faster on Zen 5 and 9% faster on Zen 4. A compiler carries a mental model of the chip it is aiming at, and when that model is off, the code it emits is quietly worse than it n

Take-Two's DMCA filings reach past one anonymous handle and into the identifiers a Windows install quietly carries around. Take-Two went to federal court in New York on 20 August and came away with two subpoenas, one aimed at Microsoft and one at Discord.

A bipartisan bill in Congress would cut off the deep-ultraviolet tools China can still buy, and the engineers who keep the installed ones running. ASML's China business has always had a floor under it. Beijing's fabs lost EUV years ago and the top-end imm

AMD has quietly pushed the complete RDNA 4m firmware set into the linux-firmware repository, and if you have watched how the company stages a launch, that is the piece that lands last. Driver patches show up months early. Signed firmware blobs show up whe

Reported privately two months ago, disclosed publicly on Saturday, and still unpatched in mainline. Plug in a USB stick, let the machine mount it, and you are root. That is the short version of a flaw in the Linux kernel's NTFS3 driver, made public on Sat

Japan's 2 nm hopeful wants to go around TSMC's wafer-based packaging rather than through it. Rapidus used the 2026 OCP APAC Summit to spell out where its advanced packaging work is heading, and the destination sits a long way from where the industry is to