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13555768273?profile=RESIZE_400xIntel has spent much of its goodwill with customers chasing down bugs: the Spectre and Meltdown bugs it dealt with years ago, as well as the instability that plagued its Raptor Lake processors last year.  Now there are additional chapters in each of those stories.

You don’t have to do anything, just make sure your PC is patched and up to date.  But there will be a price to pay in performance in fixing the latest issue, and one you can’t really do anything about.[1]

On 1 May, Intel issued yet ano

10834317652?profile=RESIZE_400xThe amount of computing power we can now squeeze into the smallest of devices is somewhat remarkable compared with what was achievable a decade ago.  Looking back even five or so years and a consumer desktop system that was the best in its class would be deemed outdated if put into a smartphone of today’s standards.  This is made possible simply because chip makers can increase the number of transistors on a chip significantly every year as developments in chip research advance.[1]

Back in 1965,

10294782079?profile=RESIZE_400xAt the onset of the Civil War, a man whose name would eventually become synonymous with famous American detectives was reportedly providing false reports to the Union’s top general.  Allan Pinkerton, who once successfully smuggled Abraham Lincoln into Washington, DC to avoid a rumored assassination attempt before he was even sworn in as president, acted as General George McClellan’s top intelligence officer.  He was considered one of the best spymasters in the United States, responsible for effe