AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...

A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...

Remember the Spectre CPU vulnerability that reared its head for the first time in 2017? Variant 2 of Spectre is back, and as such, Microsoft has published guidance about the mitigation. Remember ...

AMD recently released its Ryzen 9000-series processors, which brought the company’s new Zen 5 CPU architecture to desktops for the first time. But we (and multiple other reviewers) had issues getting ...