More Windows security updates to come as Microsoft leverages AI vulnerability detection, but ‘only the highest-confidence findings reach the engineering team’

I’m pretty staunchly opposed to the use of generative AI—for me, it’s the one-two punch of dubiously sourced datasets and the argument that these models can replace the human creatives they so often rip off. That said, even I’m a little bit intrigued by AI’s application in cybersecurity. Case in point, Microsoft recently shared that…

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Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series cards have a tendency to run cool and quiet. On average, at least. The current generation of Nvidia GPUs were previously claimed to have had their hotspot sensor removed, which lead to limited temp readings in real-time monitoring tools like GPU-Z, as only the regular GPU and memory temperature data is available….

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Even though Old School RuneScape was ‘not built to have a LAN setup at all,’ it just had a live esports tournament with 4,000 attendees: ‘We were doubting at times whether we actually can pull it off’

On Saturday, June 20, something weird happened here in Chicago: 4,000 people gathered in person (and over one million tuned in to the stream) to watch Deadman All Stars, a PvP tournament of Old School RuneScape. Even with my only RuneScape experience having been getting cyberbullied in it by half of a pair of evil…

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