AMD announces Advantage design framework initiative
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First gaming notebooks coming this month

During its Computex 2021 event, AMD has announced its new Advantage design framework initiative, a program that will help notebook makers to create the best possible gaming notebooks.

Alienware releases its "most powerful" laptops
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Super-thin too

Alienware has shown the assembled throngs at Computex its latest X-series of gaming laptops and claims they are their thinnest and most powerful.

Intel releases mobile parts
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Tiger Lake for ultrabooks

Chipzilla introduced two new 11th-gen Core mobile parts which are essentially enhanced versions of Tiger Lake processors for ultrabooks and an M.2 5G network module developed in partnership with MediaTek and Fibocom.

Rowhammer attacks level up
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Attacks broaden as RAM gets smaller

A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that broaden the attack's initial impact.

Apple's over-hyped M1 chip has a security flaw
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Too clever over a 
broken ARM

Fruity cargo cult Apple's much-hyped M1 chip has been shipping with a vulnerability that mysteriously is not getting much coverage in the Tame Apple Press.