Motherboard makers are starting to dish out BIOS updates based on new microcode from Intel to address stability issues affecting a wide range of 14th Gen and 13th Gen Core processor models. ASUS and ...

Most CPUs on the market in recent years have adopted an implementation method called the microprogram method, and updates can be applied by rewriting the microcode when a security defect is found. CPU ...

Microsoft said today that it would take Intel CPU microcode updates meant to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability and ship these updates to users via a Windows update package. The announcement is a change ...

ASUS launched new UEFI firmware updates, including Intel's latest microcode version 126. These updates are crucial for addressing stability issues found in 14th Gen and 13th Gen Core desktop ...

News briefs for May 24, 2019. ZFS On Linux 0.8 has been released. This new version supports up through the 5.1 stable series. Phoronix reports that "ZFS On Linux 0.8 adds native encryption support as ...

Windows users running the latest version of Windows 10 on recent Intel processors will soon be receiving Intel's microcode updates to address the Spectre variant 2 attack. Intel has since fixed the ...

tldr; the early microcode portion of an initramfs (/firmware) should be not be compressed. When creating an initramfs, bootkit is currently creating a single cpio archive by combining uncompressed ...

Yeah. Thanks for the answer. By their spec it seems they had microcode_ctl tool, but not anymore. I think we should name it firmware-intel-real-ucode, since we already have firmware-intel-ucode (from ...

Performance keeps on improving in games with Ryzen, that would be the generic message AMD is evangelizing in a new Blog post. It seems that AMD has made good progress on the software side of things.

Intel reports that it has developed a stable microcode update to address the Spectre flaw for its Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake processors in all their various variants. The microcode updates ...

"We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors, and end users stop deployment of current versions, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and ...