Cutting corners: All AMD processors released since 2013 are vulnerable to a pair of new side-channel attacks, "Collide + Probe" and "Load + Reload." Both exploit weaknesses in AMD’s L1D cache way predictor, a tool that predicts where data is stored in the processor, to detect when that data is accessed. By combining the new exploits with existing methodologies, researchers from the Graz University of Technology were able to crack open all the secrets of AMD processors in labs and

Facepalm: Nvidia’s failure to secure deals with publishers before launching GeForce Now has become an Achilles’ heel for the service. With Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, and now 2K Games pulling their titles, the service’s unreliability is becoming a cause for concern.

In yet another quiet post to the GeForce Now forums, Nvidia has said that “per publisher request, please be advised 2K Games titles will be removed from GeForce Now today. We are working with 2K Games to re-enable their games

Why it matters: Thanks to the constant data collection practices that big tech companies employ these days, protecting your digital privacy is more complicated than ever. Though the biggest offenders in this area tend to be search and shopping giants like Google and Amazon, Microsoft has been known to use telemetry to monitor its Windows 10 users quite closely.

While Microsoft isn't likely to put an end to that practice anytime soon, it is at least willing to be a bit more transparent about the process. In the latest Windows

In brief: In the continuing war on robocall, FCC Chair Ajit Pai put forth new rules that would require carriers to implement the SHAKEN/STIR framework. This protocol is used to authenticate callers. It should be able to identify when a company is spoofing numbers.

In 2018, the FCC wanted cellular providers to have the SHAKEN/STIR protocol implemented by the end of 201

In brief: If you're into Samsung's Galaxy S20 but for don't feel like giving your hard-earned money to the South Korean giant, Oppo has made a similar phone with a capable camera system and a display that can actually run at 120 Hz at full resolution. The price is a different story, with the new Find X2 phone starting at staggering $1,129.

Oppo planned to unveil its new Find X2 Pro smartphone at MWC, but

Futurology: Back in 2015, astronauts aboard the International Space Station ate the first-ever lettuce grown in space. It was quite an accomplishment for humanity, and it reinforced beliefs that humans could one day live among the stars. Today, we've hit another, smaller milestone related to that five-year-old achievement: researchers have concluded that space-grown lettuce is just as nutritious as its Earth-grown counterpart.

This may seem like a minor development, but it proves that vegetables don

Why it matters: While some fans and others are crying “no harm, no foul,” Riemer displayed everything wrong related to gun safety in less than 30 seconds — drunk, finger on the trigger, chambering a round, treating the firearm like a toy, handling the gun as if it were unloaded. These are all fundamental things every gun safety course teaches people not to do. No harm, no foul does not cut it when it could have meant someone's life.

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The big picture: Safe rooms are a key cog in survival games. In certain titles like Left 4 Dead, entire strategies revolve around making it to the next safe space in one piece and with as many of your partners as possible (or if you are that person, running at full speed through the entire level, teammates' safety be damned).

Capcom is adding a potentially controversial twist to its next Resident Evil game by making safe rooms… well, not so safe.

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