It has been about six years since M82589933 was proven to be prime. Hope it won't take another six years to find the next one. This also marks the beginning of a new era of GPU supported prime discovery in favor of using Prime95.

The newly found prime has 41024320 digits, all of which you may download here: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/

apparently intel has finally figured out why 13th and 14th gen CPU are failing. the issue is mainly caused by a faulty microcode algorithm, which causes the CPU requesting more voltage than it needs and results in oxidation issues within the chip itself.

CPU's that do not show any symptoms yet could be saved by a microcode update, but there is no real hope for those that already started to rust away

raise your paw if youre surprised that bad actors now distribute malware disguised as "crowdstrike fix / update"

So apparently Chrome ships with an extension that is invisible to the user, can not be disabled and allows any *.google.com page to get detailed information about CPU and memory usage.

It is apparently at least 10 years old, was originally developed to debug Hangouts and people do claim that it is also shipped in Brave and Edge.

Who knows what else might be hidden in there!

Original Tweet: https://xcancel.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018
Chrome Source: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/hangout_services/
Commit from October, 2013: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443

Some people have apparently not only gone through the trouble of digging out the latest available version of Archie (old FTP indexer / search engine from the mid 80's / 90's before Google was a thing), but they even set up a fresh install and made a web interface available. Even better: The entire source code apparently also still exists.

Video about said resurrection: https://piped.video/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI

perfectly level.

If you don't like flying drones, treat them as hardware CTF's instead!

Google's browser not only got new chrome, it now also uses keeps track of all websites you visit to generate a topic list for ads that is shared with websites directly. Nobody asked for that.