Graphene transistors
As a technician it is always interesting for me to see how things are changing and developing in this industry. The processors that we use today can not be made to work so very much faster because of heat issues.
Last week IBM anounced that they have tested a new graphene transistor at 100GHz. That is around 25 times faster than any processor that is on the market today. Unfortunately you will not be able to buy a CPU with this speed for at least a couple of years. Most computers today have more computing power than the user will ever need, but the computer profession will still be upgrading and selling new computers with this development.
Microsoft (MS) updates
This month MS released 13 updates that fixes 26 vulnerabilities in Windows. I strongly recommend that you update your operating system by using Windows/Microsoft update. I prefer to use Microsoft update since it include updates for Office and other MS technologies.
Cracking TPM
TPM-chips are the cryptographic chips that are used for encrypting data in satelite-tv receivers, smart-phones and Microsofts Xbox 360 etc. Christopher Tarnovsky, owner of Flylogic Engineering, held a speech during the Black Hat conference on how to crack the security of TPM (Trusted Platform Module) - chips made by Infineon Technologies. It is unsure if his procedure can be used on other chips as well. To decrypt content on a computer, it is necessary to get physical access to the computer, so it will not affect you unless someone steal your computer.
