#intel
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Intel Unveils GPU D Series, Formerly Known as Crescent Island
Intel has announced its GPU D Series — enterprise-focused accelerators optimized for inference workloads. The products were previously known under the Crescent Island codename.
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Intel Shuts Down Its Bug Bounty Program
The company has suspended its former bug bounty and launched a new program — this time with no payouts to researchers. The likely reason: a flood of AI-generated reports.
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DDRop: A Cheap Interposer Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP
Researchers have demonstrated a hardware attack that forces a processor to read stale encrypted data, bypassing the protections of confidential computing in the cloud. The device used for the attack costs less than $200.
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Why the x86 instruction is called ud2 and not just ud
Microsoft's Raymond Chen unpacks where the “two” in the name of the x86 instruction that's guaranteed to raise an invalid-opcode exception came from.
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Intel Has a Change of Heart: One Mono Font Spared After a Two-Day “Execution”
Amid cost cutting, Intel has spent two years shuttering its open-source projects. The One Mono font was set to be the next casualty, but a couple of days after it was archived the decision was reversed.
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A Mysterious x86 Processor Has Implemented APX and x86S, Abandoned by Intel
An unnamed company with no ties to either Intel or AMD has implemented a suite of the newest extensions in its x86 processor — including x86S, work on which Intel discontinued back in 2024.
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Torvalds Went Through “Debugging from Hell” — and Admitted AI Helped Him
Linus Torvalds personally committed a fix to the Intel Xe driver after an agonizing debugging session in which, by his own admission, artificial intelligence “helped enormously.”
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Linux 7.3 Scheduler: a boost for games, hybrid CPUs and lower latency
The Linux 7.3 merge window took in a notable batch of scheduler updates — from speeding up games on old “potato” hardware to more precise load distribution on Intel's hybrid processors.
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Intel's Jay Shader Compiler Passes the Vulkan CTS on Xe2 and Xe3
Intel's new SSA-based shader compiler Jay, developed under the leadership of Alyssa Rosenzweig, has passed the Vulkan conformance tests on Xe2 and Xe3 graphics cards for the first time.
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Linux 7.2: Cache-Aware Scheduler, Getting Ready for AMD Zen 6, and HDMI 2.1 FRL
The Linux 7.2 kernel release is expected on Sunday, August 16. It will form the basis of Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming distributions, and the list of new features includes a new scheduler, support for the latest AMD and Intel hardware, and the first steps toward Apple M3.
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New Exploit Technique Bypasses Intel CET via Segfaults
Researchers have presented a paper on exploiting segmentation faults and building attack chains that circumvent Intel CET hardware control-flow protection.
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Linux 7.3 to Enable Intel Nova Lake S Graphics by Default
In the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the integrated graphics of Intel's Nova Lake S processors will be deemed stable and work “out of the box” — well ahead of the chips themselves, which are expected in early 2027.