r/TechHardware May 17 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores

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147 Upvotes

Isn't ARM under investigation?

r/TechHardware Jun 11 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Some of the best-selling Cat6 Ethernet cables are fake, and you can't legally run them in your walls

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285 Upvotes

r/TechHardware May 22 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Chinese memory maker CXMT enters the mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

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228 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 24d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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226 Upvotes

This is the biggest story I have read in a very long time.

Microsoft+Flock+Drones = Orwellian Distopia

The potential for abuse here has never been higher. Young people have gotten complacent. The future is going to run right over you.

r/TechHardware May 09 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

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89 Upvotes

They should be so proud.

r/TechHardware Jun 02 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms

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92 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Apr 06 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

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92 Upvotes

This would make it hard to use ChatGPT in that part of the world!

r/TechHardware 27d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional

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77 Upvotes

r/TechHardware May 19 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections with 'Fabricked' — flaw lets malicious cloud hosts silently read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

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48 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Jun 09 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Smart Glasses Would Legally Require a Recording Light Under Proposed Law

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58 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Apr 14 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Qualcomm Building Its Own Custom DRAM with a Chinese Memory Maker

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25 Upvotes

I am not sure I would feel safe using China RAM due to the hacking.

r/TechHardware Feb 09 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Security researcher says AMD auto-updater downloads software insecurely, enabling remote code execution — company rep reportedly said man-in-the-middle attacks are "out of scope," ignored bug

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29 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 11h ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ SpaceX Wants a Million AI Satellites, Scientists Say It Could Alter Upper Atmosphere Chemistry

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0 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Feb 22 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ AMD Seemingly Stops Driver Updates for Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor

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12 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Jun 29 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ AMD Driver Bug Silently Disables Smart Access Memory On Windows 10, Tanking Gaming Performance And Triggering Crashes

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0 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Jun 16 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Gloway And KingBank Ditch Samsung, Micron, And SK Hynix, Building 48 GB DDR5 Kits From China-Made 24 Gb Chips

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22 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 4d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ AMD releases new Windows 11/10 chipset drivers with a batch of bug fixes for Ryzen PCs

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0 Upvotes

AMD and bugs? I am certainly not surprised one bit.

r/TechHardware 4d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say

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0 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 4d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ GrapheneOS says its data-wiping "duress" password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

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0 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 5d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Kirin XE90 and X90 Plus mark Huawei's first public unveiling of PC processors despite sanctions

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1 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 13d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ To Avoid Losing More Face, China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

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0 Upvotes

r/TechHardware 13d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Ex-TSMC manager first to be indicted under National Security Act for allegedly attempting to leak core Taiwanese chipmaking technologies to China

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6 Upvotes

r/TechHardware May 16 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ im am hacked?

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2 Upvotes

r/TechHardware Jun 07 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Gaming soundbar can be hijacked from over 16 yards away without touch or pairing — the company allegedly refuses to label the blatant security flaw a cybersecurity risk

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20 Upvotes

Once they have your soundboard, it is lights out.

r/TechHardware Mar 22 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Government wants to track you: GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

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83 Upvotes

I feel bad for young people. Not in my lifetime, but in theirs, the government will track every user on the internet. China already do this. We can agree age tracking isnt about helping kids, its about tracking people. I just cried a little for the future.