
AMD admits it is vulnerable to both versions of Spectre
So much for saying that the second one was low risk
After days of saying that there was a "near zero" chance of its chips being hit by the two Spectre bugs, AMD has finally admitted it's vulnerable to both of them.

"New" Apple bug lets outsiders fiddle with your house
You probably weren't expecting this
Apple's Homekit has a bug which allowed people to not only open your front door remotely, but unlock your garage, switch your smart plugs off and on, and mess around with your thermostat.

Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have broken hyper-threading
Dark side of the hyperthreading loom
While the war is blazing between Intel and AMD fanboys over the superiority of the latest range of chips, Debian developers have spotted some rather nasty coding in Chipzilla’s latest creations.

Bug in Intel chips threatens security
Wooden flaw
Researchers claim that they have discovered a bug in Intel chips that could compromise system securities.

MSI pulls Kaby Lake BIOS updates
Unspecified big bug
Motherboard maker MSI has pulled BIOS releases over an unspecified error in its Kaby Lake update.

IPhone 7 refuses to reconnect after airport mode "holiday"
You get what you pay for
When it is not hissing at customers for making it work, Apple’s new iPhone 7 is using Airplane mode as an excuse for a permanent snooze.

Nvidia rolls out new Geforce 361.82 Hotfix
To fix the graphics card eject bug
Nvidia has released the new Geforce 361.82 Hotfix drivers which should fix the graphics card eject bug that showed up with the earlier released Geforce 361.75 WHQL Game Ready drivers.

Prank website instantly crashes and reboots Apple iOS devices
Update: Now taken offline, but original code still available
Thanks to a few very simple lines of HTML script, a new Apple prank website promises to instantly crash the Safari web browser of any iOS and then reboot a user’s device.

Skylake bug found
Maths experts find errors
A team of maths experts have found errors in Intel's Skylake architecture which freezes the chip.

Bloke owned Google for a minute
Had webmaster access
A former Google worker managed to buy the domain name of his former employer and held it for a minute.