memory-integrity

The gaming‑PC placebo is real: dozens of forum threads and decades of benching show that social comparison — a buddy’s boast about “10 more FPS” or “100MHz more core clock” — routinely convinces otherwise‑happy players that something is wrong with their system, even when subjective gameplay was...

Hotpatching’s promise — apply security fixes without forcing reboots — hinges on one non‑negotiable platform capability: Virtualization‑Based Security (VBS). For organizations preparing fleets for hotpatch delivery, enabling VBS at scale is the single most important operational task, and it’s...

I installed Windows 11 on my gaming PC, ran a battery of real‑world benchmarks, and found that — on the hardware I use — raw gaming averages stayed essentially unchanged from Windows 10, but percentile lows and stability showed notable variance that every serious gamer should understand before...