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New UEFI vulnerability bypasses Secure Boot — bootkits stay undetected even after OS re-install

A new UEFI vulnerability has been discovered that is spread through multiple system recovery tools. Bleeping Computer reports that the vulnerability enables attackers to bypass Secure Boot and deploy bootkits that can be invisible to the operating system. Microsoft has officially flagged the vulnerability with the codename CVE-2024-7344 Howyar Taiwan Secure Boot Bypass. The culprit… Read more

Raspberry Pi 4 brings the Raspberry Pi stream deck to life

All sorts of stream decks are available on the market today, but where’s the fun buying something you could create from scratch? At least, that seems to be the spirit of the Raspberry Pi maker community, as shown in projects like this one, which was created by maker and developer Last-Shake-9874. Using our favorite SBC,… Read more

Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony’s retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade

A fan of Sony’s classic handheld Windows slider PC designs is planning a drop-in upgrade. On Friday, Tomsek68 shared his plans on Reddit, proposing swapping out the decrepit internals of a Sony Vaio VGX-UX Micro PC (circa 2006) with a custom PCB and assembly based on an OrangePi CM5. If the above-outlined project works out,… Read more

Microsoft auto-updates consumer PCs to Windows 11 24H2 — you can defer the update for five weeks

In a new blog post, Microsoft reports that it has reached a new phase in the gradual rollout of Windows 11 24H2. Compatible systems will be automatically updated to the latest release. Launched in October, Windows 11 24H2 has been plagued by a handful of jarring problems, including game-breaking bugs, persistent caches, and broken HDR…. Read more

New York proposes background checks for 3D printer purchases — the bill combats 3D-printed guns

(Image credit: Shutterstock) New York State Senator Jennifer Rajkumar sponsored State Assembly Bill A02228, which requires anyone selling a 3D printer capable of “printing a firearm or any components of a firearm” to “request and receive criminal history information.” According to Gizmodo, this gives New York State 15 days to conduct the background check and… Read more

OrangePi 4A Review: Coming for the king

Tom’s Hardware Verdict If you need a little more power than a Raspberry Pi 4, and want onboard NVMe, then the OrangePi 4A is a contender, but you need to be an experienced user to get the most out of it. Pros + NVMe storage as standard + Multi-core performance is good + GPIO is… Read more

Thunderbolt 5 dock comes with built-in PCIe 4.0 SSD and four TB5 ports — pricing starts at $399

Sonnet Technologies has announced the Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock. The headlining feature of this dock is that it can accommodate a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD and facilitate 6,100 MB/s data transfers. Sonnet claims it will be the first to ship a dock with this mix of performance and features (it boasts many other… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5 7400F sells for $115 in China — US availability and pricing remains a mystery

AMD quietly launched the Ryzen 5 7400F a few days ago but gave no details about its pricing or availability. However, X (formerly Twitter) user MEGAsizeGPU shared on the platform that this budget CPU, expected to be more affordable than the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F launched in July 2023, is now on sale in China…. Read more

Montech’s Heritage Pro case is like a designer handbag for your Micro ATX PC

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) With its distinctive combination of leather, glass, and steel, along with a robust leather carrying strap up top, Montech’s Heritage was one of the more memorable cases to break cover last summer at Computex 2024. Here in early 2025, the case has finally arrived on our test bench, in both its… Read more

RTX 5090 beats RTX 4090 by 36% in the Blender benchmark — RTX 5090D is 40% faster than RTX 4090D

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D graphics cards have appeared in the Blender benchmark database, demonstrating decently higher performance than the outgoing RTX 4090 (via VideoCardz). The RTX 5090 was tested in Blender 3.6.0, while the RTX 5090D used version 4.3.0, the latest. The Blender benchmark database doesn’t offer any details… Read more

Intel’s Arrow Lake fix doesn’t ‘fix’ overall gaming performance or match the company’s bad marketing claims – Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and previous-gen chips

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Our testing shows that Intel’s fix for its Arrow Lake chips isn’t effective in addressing the chips’ lackluster gaming performance, at least on the motherboards we tested with. And we found that the Core Ultra 9 285K’s updated gaming performance with one motherboard is now slightly slower than before. Additionally, the… Read more

Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal

(Image credit: Shutterstock) According to a new blog post from Microsoft, Microsoft 365’s Personal and Family plans have been bundled with Copilot and priced up to roughly $3 a month. The latest monthly cost is $9.99, up from $6.99, and the new annual fee is $99.99, up from $69.99. In addition to the basic plans… Read more

Custom RTX 5090, RTX 5080 listed for up to $2,800 and $1,400 overseas — initial pricing exceeds MSRP

(Image credit: Palit) As we march closer to the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080’s release, retailers have already begun putting up listings for the impending launch. As shared by momomo_us at X, early data from a European retailer suggests a significant uptick in pricing versus Nvidia’s set MSRP. When adjusted for VAT (Value Added Tax),… Read more

Analysts halve Nvidia Blackwell cabinet shipment forecasts for 2025 — prediction contrasts AI boom

Unnamed industry analysts quoted by DigiTimes have cut their 2025 forecasts for Nvidia GB200-based NVL72 machines by over 50%, which contradicts almost all shipment projections for AI hardware this year. One important catch is that the analysts slashed sales forecasts only for machines based on Nvidia’s Arm processors. Sales of x86-based machines with B200 GPUs… Read more

GlobalFoundries to expand New York fab — announces new $575 million advanced packaging and photonics facility

GlobalFoundries announced that it will build an advanced packaging and testing facility at its Malta, New York fab to support the growing demand for silicon built entirely within the United States. GlobalFoundries said that this extension will also provide assembly and testing for silicon photonics, a tech that combines optical and electrical components to deliver… Read more