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New AI-driven Windows malware feeds stolen data to Claude to rank victims’ assets by value, then deletes itself — payload builds custom target assessment, can switch models if one refuses, or skip the AI step entirely

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Stolen Gmail receipts and food-delivery orders feed an AI request for a ‘target assessment’ of each victim.

#tomshardware#volta#steals#asks#model#malware#photo#englishlanguage
about 5 hours ago

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.

#tomshardware#security#fingerprint#encrypted#card#researcher#photo#englishlanguage
about 17 hours ago

Open-source USB tool unlocks Nvidia's half-speed GPU AI limiter on Windows — lifts GPU's FP16 math performance up to 65%, UEFI unlocker covers RTX 20, 30, and 40-series desktops and laptops

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

It runs from a USB stick before Windows loads and has to run again on every boot.

#tomshardware#nvidia#uefi#tensor#windows#driver#photo#englishlanguage
about 17 hours ago

Biwin M560 2TB SSD Review: The DRAM-less drive to beat

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Next-gen responsiveness without the heat.

#tomshardware#hardware#biwin#m560#pcie#photo#englishlanguage
about 17 hours ago

PsiQuantum turns its photonics know-how into an optical switch for supercharging AI data center GPU networks — 8x8 lab prototype loses less light than rivals, with plans to develop larger devices

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Google’s mirror switches have 136 ports; PsiQuantum’s chip has eight, with larger devices in development.

#tomshardware#switch#light#psiquantum#optical#photo#englishlanguage
3 days ago

Anthropic’s IPO filing shows most of its compute goes to R&D, not serving customers — company details massive $800 billion in TPU and GPU contracts

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Anthropic’s S-1 splits its $8.9 billion H1 compute bill: most went to R&D, with less than a third estimated to serve Claude customers.

#tomshardware#capacity#anthropic#billion#compute#meanwhile#photo#englishlanguage
4 days ago

Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs hacked to remove a half-speed AI throttle — firmware exploit doubles RTX 4090's peak tensor rate, lifts RTX 3090 Ti matrix math up to 80%

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Real workloads gain less than peak tensor rates, and chatbot token speeds stay about the same.

#tomshardware#math#cards#imposed#half#speed#photo#englishlanguage
7 days ago

Cadence reveals Maestro, fine-tuned AI models built to run specialized chip design agents, with early access coming for 'select customers' in Q4 2026 — claims up to 30% higher quality results and up to 5x token efficiency over a general-purpose AI model

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Cadence unveiled Maestro, domain-specialized AI models for its chip design agents, with early access for select customers in Q4 2026.

#tomshardware#cadence#models#design#maestro#general#photo#englishlanguage
7 days ago

OpenAI's isolated red-team AI agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files — exploited CPU cache timing to bypass microVM sandboxes

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

A hijacked AI agent could use the same technique to leak data without touching the network.

#tomshardware#shared#hardware#network#agents#channel#photo#englishlanguage
8 days ago

China-aligned hackers deploy AI agents in massive ConnectWise supply chain attack — agents attempted sign-ins at more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, with some of the group's attacks reaching privileged access in under three hours

🌐 tomshardware.comSource

Automated password guessing failed, but stolen app credentials needed no user sign-in at all.

#tomshardware#connectwise#password#artex#penetration#microsoft#photo#englishlanguage
10 days ago