Hardware Busters

Bluetooth HDT Lifts LE to 7.5 Mbps, but Hi-Res Lossless Audio Rides on the Optional Tiers Bluetooth HDT in Core 7.0 lifts Bluetooth LE to 7.5 Mbps, enough for lossless audio, but the faster modes are optional. hwbusters.com/news/bluetooth…

Kmorph Promises Linux Kernel Crash Recovery Without a Reboot by Keeping a Spare Kernel Armed - a standby kernel takes over CPUs, memory and devices in about a second. hwbusters.com/news/kmorph-pr…

CUDA 13.5 Takes Vera Rubin to General Availability and Retires TCC Mode on Rubin GPUs - adds MPS v3 GPU sharing and multi-GPU Tile kernels. hwbusters.com/news/cuda-13-5…

Zen 6 RISC-V Security Core Surfaces in an AMD Firmware Commit, and Arm May Be on Its Way Out - A linux-firmware commit puts AMD PMF on a RISC-V based TEE in Zen 6 client chips. hwbusters.com/news/zen-6-ris…

Radeon RX 7500 Turns Up in HWiNFO, Hinting AMD Still Has Plans for Navi 33 - Radeon RX 7500 appears in the latest HWiNFO beta changelog. What the unannounced Navi 33 card could be, and why AMD might launch it now. hwbusters.com/news/radeon-rx…

TSMC 3D DRAM Plans Reportedly Drafted at NVIDIA's Request as the Memory Crunch Drags On - new fabs or a converted plant are on the table as the memory shortage drags on. hwbusters.com/news/tsmc-3d-d…

HKUST's Stamped NiTi Stack Pushes Elastocaloric Cooling Past 100 Million Cycles A stamped, stacked NiTi refrigerant pushes elastocaloric cooling past 100 million cycles at 95% lower cost than machined parts. hwbusters.com/news/hkusts-st…

FSR 4.1.2 on Xbox Series X|S Has Arrived, but Every Game Has to Opt In FSR 4.1.2 arrives via Microsoft's October GDK with Full and Lite INT8 models, but each game needs a developer update to use it. hwbusters.com/news/fsr-4-1-2…

OpenSSH and musl Flaw Lets an Oversized Password Into Locked Alpine Linux Accounts Any password over 256 bytes gets into locked accounts on Alpine Linux and other musl systems. Patch to OpenSSH 10.6p2 now. hwbusters.com/news/openssh-a…

Blue Origin Northstar Engine Promises More Thrust Than BE-4 at a Quarter of the Cost Northstar targets 715,000 lbf of thrust with half the parts of BE-4, plus a new GS3 third stage for New Glenn. hwbusters.com/news/blue-orig…

Nova Lake-S 5.1 GHz Limit Above 90C Is Locked, Says Intel Leaker - Intel's next desktop CPUs reportedly limit cores to 5.1 GHz above 90C, and a preliminary leak says the threshold cannot be raised. hwbusters.com/news/nova-lake…

Discord Is Dropping Electron for a Rust Client, and an Early Build Idles at 290MB of RAM - the CTO confirms Electron and React Native are out, with an early GPUI-based Windows 11 build shown. hwbusters.com/news/discord-i…

OpenAI's Agents Found 948 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Bugs in One Run, at About $1,280 Each - working exploits and patches, for about $1.2 million in API credits. hwbusters.com/news/openais-a…

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Corsair RM850e (ThermalProtect) review: quiet 850W power with Cybenetics ETA Platinum and LAMBDA A+, and the best 3.3V regulation of 13 units at 115V. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=f9MA81NF… Review: hwbusters.com/psus/corsair-r…

APT Vulnerability Let Network Attackers Swap Verified Packages and Run Code as Root - APT vulnerability CVE-2026-109518 let a man-in-the-middle swap a verified package and run code as root on Debian and Ubuntu. Fixed versions inside. hwbusters.com/news/apt-vulne…

Macronix ROM Exit Leaves Nintendo's Switch Game Cards Short a Key Fab - Macronix ROM production is being phased out as the chipmaker moves capacity to NOR and NAND flash, squeezing Nintendo Switch game card supply. hwbusters.com/news/macronix-…

Team Group Posts a Record Quarter, Then Warns the Memory Shortage Won't Ease Before 2028 - Team Group's record Q3 comes with a warning: its CEO sees no memory shortage relief in 2027, DDR5 contract prices up 5.5x, and balance not before 2H 2028. hwbusters.com/news/team-grou…

Google Takes Down XCPE Botnet Hidden in 1.3 Million Certified Android TV Boxes Google has banned Videostrong, the maker it says built the backdoor itself. hwbusters.com/news/google-ta…

Quad-GPU AMD Board With Four Polaris Dies and 32GB of GDDR5 Surfaces in Prototype Photos Its DVT labels hint at an RX 570-era design. hwbusters.com/news/quad-gpu-…