Hardware

At the USENIX Security Symposium here today, University of Florida researcher Nolen Scaife presented the results of a research project he undertook with Christian Peeters and Patrick Traynor to effectively detect some types of "skimmers"—maliciously placed devices designed to surreptitiously capture the magnetic stripe data and PIN codes of debit and credit cards as they are inserted into automated teller machines and point-of-sale systems. The researchers developed SkimReaper, a device that can sense when multiple read heads are present—a telltale sign of the presence of a skimmer.

There have been murmurs - from sources both official and unofficial - of an imminent re-entry into the discrete graphics card market by Intel. This would potentially add a major third player into a market that's effectively duopoly between Nvidia and AMD's graphics cards. Two months ago, Intel all but confirmed its foray into this field, touting a possible 2020 release date, and today, the company has released its first teaser for it.

Today -- after weeks of leaks -- Samsung finally revealed the eagerly anticipated Galaxy Note9. While we already knew just about everything about this smartphone, we now know that it has an astonishing price tag (between $1,000 and $1,250) and that it includes exclusive access to the beta version of Fortnite for Android.

Life-saving pacemakers manufactured by Medtronic don’t rely on encryption to safeguard firmware updates, a failing that makes it possible for hackers to remotely install malicious wares that threaten patients’ lives, security researchers said Thursday.

A hacker says they have hacked into John McAfee's "unhackable" Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet.

A Dutch "IT geek" that goes by OverSoft on Twitter tweeted Wednesday they had root access to the antivirus software pioneer's crypto-wallet, which McAfee and hardware wallet company Bitfi said had "absolute" security.

Arlo became a public company today, trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "ARLO."

The San Jose, California-based smart home company announced it sold about 10.2 million shares at $16 per share in Arlo's initial public offering (IPO). Arlo had a targeted price range of $18 to $20 per share.

Google is having a busy week at its Cloud Next '18 conference, but it's primarily been all software announcements. That changed on Wednesday with the Titan Security Key.

The Titan is a physical security key that adds a layer of authentication to an account — one that a digital authenticator can't match. It will first launch for Google Cloud customers before rolling out to all consumers via the Google Store in the months that follow.

While Intel's naming scheme for its processors is often best described as "obtuse," there have been some patterns that the company seemed to follow. For desktop processors, the i7 branding denotes chips with hyperthreading enabled, running two threads on each core. i5-branded parts had the same number of cores but with hyperthreading disabled. i3 parts in turn had fewer cores than i5 parts, but once again with hyperthreading enabled.

 Qualcomm's CFO, George Davis, just seemingly confirmed a major detail about this year's iPhones during an earnings conference call on Wednesday.

The iPhones coming out this fall are not going to use Qualcomm modems — leaving only one real company that could provide the chip design: Intel.

Apple's patch on Tuesday seems to fix most —if not all —of the clock speed excursions that the 15-inch MacBook Pro was experiencing when under load. AppleInsider delves into the situation, runs the numbers in some real-world applications, and talks about what led us to this point.

Intel's 2.9GHz six-core Core i9 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.8GHz is offered as a premium $300 option on Apple's 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, but according to Lee, the chip is unable to reach its full potential due to the laptop's design.