Welcome to the Tech Name Right Home for Tuesday, July 25th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Big potential vulnerability in AMD chips.

Fallout from the whole X rebranding continues.

Now Tik-Tok is cloning Twitter.

The ARC browser is now available for anyone to try out.

And if you think Elon likes to have his hand on a lot of pies, a look at the increasing and increasingly

ambitious portfolio of Sam Altman related companies.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. It's been a while since we've had one of these, but this sounds pretty serious.

A Google researcher has found a vulnerability in AMD's Zen 2 Chips, which potentially gives access to secure information like

encryption keys. AMD expects most patches will not come until Q4.

quoting Tom's hardware.

The Zen bleed vulnerability spans the entire Zen 2 product stack,

including AMD's Epic Data Center processors

and the Horizon 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 line of

CPU allowing the theft of protected information from the

CPU such as encryption keys and user logins. The attack does not require physical access to the computer or

server and can even be executed via JavaScript on a web page.

A. M. D. didn't have an advisory ready at the time of publication but the company did add the AMD

the Amd has patches ready for its epic 7,000 to Rome processors now, but it will not patch its

consumer Zen 2, Rhizan 3,000, 4,000 and some 5,000 series chips until November and December

of this year.

AMD's processors used in the PS 5 Xbox series X&S and

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