hardware-security

  1. Alterego Silent-Speech Wearable: Not Mind-Reading, But Typing From Facial Muscles

    Alterego’s demo landed like a mini cultural earthquake: a behind‑the‑ear headset that its founders billed as a “near‑telepathic wearable” — capable of turning the silent motions of speech into typed text, AI queries, and spoken replies — and the internet responded with equal parts awe and alarm...
  2. Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and GPT: Upgrading for Modern PC Gaming

    Modern PC shooters are raising the bar: several recent AAA titles now refuse to run on Windows 10 unless Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 are enabled, forcing many players to move from legacy BIOS/MBR setups to a UEFI/GPT configuration before they can even launch the game. Background / Overview The...
  3. Windows 10 at Ten: A Decade of Compatibility and Service

    Ten years after its debut, Windows 10’s story reads less like a single product lifecycle and more like a decade-long experiment in balancing familiarity, compatibility, and incremental innovation — an experiment that, for most users and enterprises, largely succeeded. Background: the rescue that...
  4. Windows Hello Face Swap Attack: ESS Blocks It, Deployment Gaps Remain

    Hackers showed at Black Hat that Windows Hello for Business can be fooled into accepting an attacker’s face by swapping biometric templates on a compromised PC—an attack that works stunningly fast if the intruder already has local admin privileges. In a live demo, German researchers Tillmann...