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The Intel 386 processor turns 40: the 32-bit era began
October 20, 2025, marks a significant anniversary in the history of computing: the Intel 80386 processor, also known as the i386 , celebrates its 40th birthday . And it’s a big birthday! Launche...
Intel releases urgent patches for new Spectre variant
VUSec researchers have presented a paper titled “Training Solo,” which challenges the fundamental principles of protection against Spectre-v2 attacks. Previously , the domain isolation mec...
Famous hackers: Vladimir Levin and the first online bank robbery.
Today we’ll meet another hacker from the past. He’s Vladimir Levin, a Russian hacker from St. Petersburg (Владимир Леонидович Левин), who became famous for breaking into the servers of the...
Cyber Attack on European Airports: Everest Ransomware Claims Claim
On September 20, we reported on a cyberattack that paralyzed several European airports, including Brussels, Berlin, and London Heathrow. This was a supply chain attack that exploited the compromise of...
Inmates hack prison: sentences reduced, funds transferred, and unauthorized visits
The Romanian penitentiary system has found itself at the center of a major digital scandal: inmates in Târgu Jiu hacked the PNA’s internal platform and, for several months, managed data on priso...
WiFi: From Marconi’s Origins to the Wireless Network We Know Today
Today, we live in a world where WiFi is a fundamental necessity, but how did this technology, now taken for granted, come about? How did it then develop into the network we now use every day? In this ...
Operation SIMCARTEL: 1,200 SIM boxes and 40,000 SIM cards stopped by Europol
On October 10, 2025, Latvian authorities conducted a day of action that resulted in the arrest of five Latvian citizens suspected of running a large-scale cyber fraud network. The operation, dubbed SI...
Nvidia loses 95% of the Chinese AI market! Export restrictions cause its share to plummet
Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, revealed that recent export restrictions have drastically reduced the presence of the company’s AI chips in China , from 95% to virtually nothing. “Four year...
Cyberdrones, radar evasion, and autonomous swarms: Rome, the invisible challenge of Jubilee 2025
Jubilee 2025 in Rome presents a challenge not only for managing millions of pilgrims and tourists, but also for protecting urban airspace. Drones, increasingly widespread and accessible, bring with th...
Bus becomes travelling museum of retro computers in UK
In the UK, father and son Jason and Luke Stoner have transformed an old school bus into a traveling museum dedicated to retro computers and game consoles. The inspiration came when Luke visited the fa...
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October 20, 2025, marks a significant anniversary in the history of computing: the Intel 80386 processor, also known as the i386 , celebrates its 40th birthday . And it’s a big birthday! Launche...

VUSec researchers have presented a paper titled “Training Solo,” which challenges the fundamental principles of protection against Spectre-v2 attacks. Previously , the domain isolation mec...

Today we’ll meet another hacker from the past. He’s Vladimir Levin, a Russian hacker from St. Petersburg (Владимир Леонидович Левин), who became famous for breaking ...

On September 20, we reported on a cyberattack that paralyzed several European airports, including Brussels, Berlin, and London Heathrow. This was a supply chain attack that exploited the compromise of...

The Romanian penitentiary system has found itself at the center of a major digital scandal: inmates in Târgu Jiu hacked the PNA’s internal platform and, for several months, managed data on pris...
Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability: CVE-2025-53506 Under Analysis
Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Putin imposes restrictions on foreign software that has “strangled” Russia
How an LLM Really Works: Costs, Infrastructure, and the Technical Choices Behind Big Language Models
Sophos fixes vulnerabilities in Intercept X for Windows

Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability: CVE-2025-53506 Under Analysis
Redazione RHC - July 19th, 2025
The Apache team recently fixed a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability classified as high severity. There's a new inconvenient guest in data centers around the world. It's called CVE-2025-53506 and it doesn't...

Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
Magnus Carlsen beat ChatGPT at chess without losing a single piece, while his virtual opponent lost all his pawns. The Norwegian grandmaster posted screenshots of the game on the social...

Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT at chess without losing a piece!
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
Magnus Carlsen beat ChatGPT at chess without losing a single piece, while his virtual opponent lost all his pawns. The Norwegian grandmaster posted screenshots of the game on the social...

Putin imposes restrictions on foreign software that has “strangled” Russia
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
The Kremlin press office reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to develop additional restrictions on software (including "communications services")produced in hostile countries by September 1, 2025....

How an LLM Really Works: Costs, Infrastructure, and the Technical Choices Behind Big Language Models
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
In recent years, large language models (LLM, Large Language Models) such as GPT, Claude, or LLaMA have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in understanding and generating natural language. However, behind the scenes,...

Sophos fixes vulnerabilities in Intercept X for Windows
Redazione RHC - July 18th, 2025
Sophos announced that it has resolved three separate security vulnerabilities in Sophos Intercept X for Windows and its installer. These vulnerabilities, designated CVE-2024-13972, CVE-2025-7433, and CVE-2025-7472, have been rated High...
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