New conference paper: "How to BREAK MU-MIMO Precoding in IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi Networks" (Meneghello et al., 2025)   tl;dr A new vulnerability was discovered in the Wi-Fi protocol, affecting all current Wi-Fi 5, 6, and 7 (ac/ax/be) hardware. It allows an attacker to slow down the entire network by tricking the access point into misconfiguring itself. The attack can be executed by any device connected to the network, and is realistically exploitable by off-the-shelf hardware without any special access to network devices beyond simply being connected to the network. A fix will only ..read more

    Summary The USB International Forum is yet again renaning the USB standards, but this time it's actually exactly what we want!   Quotes Quote   My thoughts I'm happy!   Sources https://www.techspot.com/news/106291-new-usb-logos-simplify-branding-hubs-cables.html ..read more

  While Nvidia seems fairly confident announcing their desktop GPUs, they mostly focused only on the price for the mobile parts while not diving too much into their specs at CES. However, it has been revealed that their RTX 5070 mobile will only be equipped with 8GB of VRAM and a 128-bit bus. For reference, their 1070 mobile in 2016 had 8GB of VRAM. When asked in a press Q&A about the decision to give only 8GB on mobile Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang seemingly acknowledges they know 8GBB now isn't very much.    Quote from Adam Murray of PCWorld directly to Jensen Quote Jensen Hua ..read more

Summary Nvidia's turn to show off their new stuff at CES (yes, I'm totally going to copy @LAwLz post idea)   I'll try to update the post as stuff happens   Jensen's new jacket   GeForce Blackwell 5000 series   DLSS4 Multi Frame Generation Why generate only a single frame when you can do 3 instead? Exclusive to the 5000 series   Neural Texture Compression DLSS4 brings the ability to compress material through AI, making its memory footprint lower. Apparently this will be available in all RTX models   5090 with 32GB GDDR7 and tons of performance All in a du ..read more

Summary AMD has announced a bunch of things at this year's CES. New CPUs, new GPUs, new APUs and more!         The new CPUs:   The Z2 lineup for handheld devices consists of three new chips which mix three different generations of CPU cores as well as three different generations of GPU cores. Expect these chips to show up in devices similar to the Steam Deck and ROG Alley later this year. Although, it is worth noting that only the Z2 Extreme seems like a decent upgrade over the existing Z1 chips.     They have also announced two new Ryzen 9000 CPUs. These ar ..read more

Summary Google will push an update that lowers battery life on "affected" Pixel 4a devices Jan 8 2025, offers 50usd cash or 100usd discount to customers   Quotes Quote From January 8, 2025, Pixel 4a devices will receive an automatic software update to Android 13. After the software update is downloaded, your device will restart automatically to apply the update. For some devices (“Impacted Devices”), the update includes new battery management features to improve the stability of your battery’s performance, so the battery may last for shorter periods between charges. Users of Impacted De ..read more

First. Time posting so may not be fully formatted right   Summary  The pie adblocker has been found to be using modified versions of ublock origins uassets and asguards scriptlets. Both of which are licenced under gpl3.     Quotes Quote  Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter's software license – the GNU GPL version 3. Pie Adblock was accused of lifting code and text from the GPL'd uBlock Origin, at least, without meeting the GPL's requirements – such as sta ..read more

Thinking of getting the Intel B580 but you are not sporting an eight core Ryzen 7000/9000 processor or Intel equivalent? Might want to think twice.   Hardware Unboxed has tested the best Battlemage GPU with varying tier of CPUs, and found that in most cases it already starts losing performance with the R5 7600 as compared to the 9800X3D that everyone and their dog used for the initial review of the B580. Performance continues to rapidly fall off as the CPU gets weaker.   They tested at 1080p native in four modern titles where the highest average framerate were all below 100fps except ..read more

Summary Honey, the discount-code-finding browser extension, has been accused of stealing millions of dollars of YouTubers' (and others') affiliate income.   Quotes Quote This case involves a scheme by Defendant to unlawfully supplant affiliate links from content creators with its own affiliate links via Honey, thereby redirecting commision or sales tracking on those affiliate links to the Defendant.   My thoughts Is deserved and needed to happen. Honey basically orchestrated a massive click jacking campaign. LTT should join the class action.   Sources * Legal Eagle will pos ..read more

Summary VideoCardz.com reported a rumor from Quantum Bits that Intel plans to launch a PRO series for Battlemage sometime in 2025.   Quotes Quote According to Quantum Bits, Intel will double the capacity of its Arc series graphics cards based on the Battlemage architecture. While the media does not explicitly refer to the Arc PRO series, they mention that a 24GB model is coming to the "productivity market," which aligns with the series' purpose.    My thoughts Intel appears to be gearing up to compete on the GPU market on a wider scale. There isn't a price point yet, if the ..read more