The fine researchers at Google have released the juicy details on EntrySign, the AMD Zen microcode issue we first covered about a month ago. And to give away the punchline: cryptography is hard. It’s ...

ASUS has started distributing BIOS updates incorporating AGESA 1.2.7.0 for its AM5 800-series motherboards, a firmware ...

Intel has released another round of firmware and driver updates, this time accompanied by 30 new security advisories. The microcode update, labeled version 20251111, covers nearly all recent Intel ...

What just happened? A significant vulnerability, known as EntrySign, has been uncovered by Google security researchers, affecting all AMD Zen processors from Zen 1 to Zen 4. This flaw allows attackers ...

Reports of Raptor Lake instability issues have been at an all-time low since Intel released firmware updates several months ago — but they're not completely gone. Intel released microcode update 0x12F ...

TL;DR: AMD has identified a security flaw, "EntrySign," affecting Zen 1 to Zen 5 CPUs, allowing attackers kernel-level access by bypassing microcode signature verification. A fix has been issued via ...

Intel has confirmed that it's about to issue another microcode update for its 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs, meaning you'll need to update your motherboard BIOS again. As with the raft of ...

Bottom line: Chipmakers typically use microcode updates to fix bugs and improve CPU reliability. However, this low-level layer between hardware and machine code can also serve as a stealthy attack ...

All 6th, 7th, and 8th generation Core processors now have microcode available. It will be interesting to see if this allows for some recovery of CPU performance that is lost when completely inhibiting ...