Dirty Pipe Vulnerability Is The Biggest Security Threat To Linux In Years

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Dirty Pipe Vulnerability Is The Biggest Security Threat To Linux In Years]( By Lane Babuder on Mar 08, 2022 02:25 pm [Dirty Pipe Vulnerability Is The Biggest Security Threat To Linux In Years]( As you're surfing the web, it is a pretty fair bet that most of the websites you visit run on a Linux-based operating system. It is the world's most popular server platform, after all. Thanks to the open-source nature of Linux, it is often considered far more secure than most alternatives, as any vulnerabilities usually are patched pretty [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Arc Alchemist Launch Allegedly Delayed, Here's When The First Cards Might Ship]( By Zak Killian on Mar 08, 2022 02:22 pm [Intel Arc Alchemist Launch Allegedly Delayed, Here's When The First Cards Might Ship]( Once upon a time, it was thought desktop Arc Alchemist cards would be out in January, but January came and went without a peep. Folks latched onto rumors that they'd be here in March, but then Intel instead promised cards for Q2 this year in an investor meeting last month. What about now? The latest information from leaksters seems to suggest [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple iPad Air Gets Upgraded With Same M1 Chip As iPad Pro, iPhone SE Goes 5G]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 08, 2022 02:17 pm [Apple iPad Air Gets Upgraded With Same M1 Chip As iPad Pro, iPhone SE Goes 5G]( Apple announced a series of product and service upgrades during its Peek Performance event today, including the latest generation iPad Air powered by the company's M1 processor, and a beefed up iPhone SE with an A15 Bionic chip and 5G radio underneath the hood. While neither are flagship models, both now wield high-end swagger in more affordable [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Nintendo Switch OLED Burn-In Torture Test Lights Up Screen For 3,600 Hours, Here's The Result]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 08, 2022 12:18 pm [Nintendo Switch OLED Burn-In Torture Test Lights Up Screen For 3,600 Hours, Here's The Result]( Do OLED screens get a bad rap when it comes in to the risk of permanent burn-in? It's an important question as OLED displays have come to dominate landscape for premium mobile devices, from high-end smartphones to the latest iteration of the Switch. As it applies specifically to the Nintendo Switch OLED, a recent torture test suggests that [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Battery Material Breakthrough A Potential Game-Changer For Lithium-Ion Endurance]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 08, 2022 11:30 am [Battery Material Breakthrough A Potential Game-Changer For Lithium-Ion Endurance]( A group of scientists believe they have found a material that could be a game changer when it comes to lithium-ion battery life. The team has been delving specifically into the negative terminals inside lithium-ion batteries. Anyone who has ever owned a smartphone can relate to how quickly the battery life can degrade on the device. A phone [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Um Houston, There's A Mars Rock Wedged In The Wheel Of NASA's $2.2B Perseverance Rover]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 08, 2022 10:38 am [Um Houston, There's A Mars Rock Wedged In The Wheel Of NASA's $2.2B Perseverance Rover]( NASA's Mars Perseverance rover seems to have picked up a traveling companion. Late last month, an image was captured by the Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera A of a stone wedged in one of the rover's six aluminum wheels. Back on February 25th, 2022, an image from Perseverance captured a stowaway stone lodged into one of the rover's six [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Crafty Crypto Miners Put Laptop RTX 3060 GPUs Into Desktop Cards To Bypass Mining Cap]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 08, 2022 10:31 am [Crafty Crypto Miners Put Laptop RTX 3060 GPUs Into Desktop Cards To Bypass Mining Cap]( It's not enough that gamers have to compete with cryptocurrency miners for an insufficient supply of desktop graphics cards, now laptop GPUs could become hot commodities for larger scale mining operations too. Providing a path to that potential outcome, a seller in China is hawking modified desktop GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards that are [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Itch.io Charity Bundle For Ukraine Serves Up $6,500 Worth Of Games, Books And More For $10]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 08, 2022 09:18 am [Itch.io Charity Bundle For Ukraine Serves Up $6,500 Worth Of Games, Books And More For $10]( Itch.io is serving up a massive bundle of games, comic books, and more to raise funds for relief efforts in Ukraine. The aptly named "Bundle for Ukraine" can be had in its entirety for just $10, the minimum donation amount, though the site "highly urges" people to pay above the minimum if it is within their means to do so. The average donation [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX CPUs To Battle Xeon For Workstation Dominance]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 08, 2022 09:00 am [AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX CPUs To Battle Xeon For Workstation Dominance]( Enthusiasts, power users, and professionals in need of more compute muscle have been patiently awaiting another round of Threadripper. The wait is now over—AMD today unveiled its Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX series, a burly stack of high-end desktop (HEDT) chips based on its Zen 3 architecture built to accelerate workstation workloads. Because [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Multiple PlayStation 5 Restocks Headed To GameStop, What You Need To Know]( By Brittany Goetting on Mar 08, 2022 08:35 am [Multiple PlayStation 5 Restocks Headed To GameStop, What You Need To Know]( The Playstation 5 has been out for well over a year, but remains as elusive as ever. There may be an opportunity to nab one of the consoles and a few accessories for yourself soon. GameStop will release two Playstation 5 Bundles later today. The GameStop Playstation 5 bundles will be available through GameSpot’s website today, Tuesday, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Oh Great, Hackers Are Using Stolen NVIDIA Certificates To Sign Windows Malware]( By Nathan Wasson on Mar 07, 2022 05:14 pm [Oh Great, Hackers Are Using Stolen NVIDIA Certificates To Sign Windows Malware]( News broke on February 25th that NVIDIA had been hit by a cyber-attack. The LAPSUS$ ransomware gang took responsibility for the attack the next day, but also claimed that NVIDIA hit them back with its own ransomware. However, NVIDIA’s counterstrike seems not to have disabled LAPSUS$ access to the data it stole nor has it dissuaded the ransomware [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Awesome Elden Ring Photomod Lets You Pan The Camera Freely For Great Screenshots]( By Zak Killian on Mar 07, 2022 04:24 pm [Awesome Elden Ring Photomod Lets You Pan The Camera Freely For Great Screenshots]( One of the greatest new features that you'll find in a lot of games is a photo mode. These modes usually let you pause the game, and then tilt, pan, swivel, and zoom the camera freely for taking epic screenshots. The concept isn't new; many older games (including From Software titles) had this capability, but it was usually developer-only [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [A New Menacing SharkBot Banking Trojan Lurks For Android Phones On Google Play]( By Lane Babuder on Mar 07, 2022 03:52 pm [A New Menacing SharkBot Banking Trojan Lurks For Android Phones On Google Play]( A particularly nasty piece of malware, dubbed SharkBot, is out in the wild and spreading via bogus applications in the Google Play store. SharkBot is designed to steal banking data through a couple of different methods. Discovered in October of 2021 by Cleafy, SharkBot is somewhat unique when compared to other bank stealing malware for [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Ukraine Drone Enthusiasts Form Flying Fury Force To Thwart Russian Forces]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 07, 2022 03:34 pm [Ukraine Drone Enthusiasts Form Flying Fury Force To Thwart Russian Forces]( Drone enthusiasts in Ukraine have volunteered to use their flying skills in an attempt to combat Russians forces. This is a major shift from flying their drones as a hobby, to flying them to save potentially save lives. 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