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New UEFI Flaw Enables Early-Boot DMA Attacks on ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI Motherboards

UEFI firmware flaws in certain ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI motherboards allow early-boot DMA attacks before OS security ...

Major UEFI Flaw Enables Game Cheats On ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte & MSI Motherboards

However, even with it installed and updated, gamers may have received a notice that their system is restricted from launching ...

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That's because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters ...
Hackaday

The Unusual Pi Boot Process Explained

If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look ...
IEEE

Dual-mode Modulation of Bipolar Buck Converter with Voltage Balancing and Short-circuit Faulttolerant Operation Capability

Abstract: In this paper, the dual mode operation is proposed for bipolar buck converter with integrated voltage balancing and short-circuit fault-tolerant capability. During normal operation, the ...
IEEE

Neural Network Fractional Order Sliding Mode Control of DC-DC Buck Converter

Abstract: In this paper, a double hidden layer recurrent neural network fractional order sliding mode control (DHLRNNFOSMC) based on a finite time disturbance observer (FTDO) is designed for a DC-DC ...