What we are working on

Most publishers say nothing about what they detect, but Krafton has published a roadmap that names its priority and gives a number.

Some titles now refuse to start without platform attestation, and the question is moving from what a driver sees to what the firmware will vouch for.

Three separate things change in a patch, and they cost wildly different amounts to repair. Only one of them is what people mean by updating the offsets.

The first twenty-four hours of a scare are almost entirely noise. Here is how the real signal separates out, and what a vendor should be doing while it does.

A used board can be a good purchase. But only if you price the hardware alone and get the photographs before the money moves.

Before a monitor shows anything, it hands the source a small ROM describing itself. Everything a fuser does happens around that handshake.

The card is not the expensive part: the item people forget is a second computer, and the item they underspend on costs about as much as lunch.

A USB device introduces itself before it is allowed to do anything. That introduction is a structured record, and it is far more specific than most people expect.

The USB cable between the two machines is the shortest leash on the desk. The layout has to be designed outward from it.

Past a certain point, the question is no longer what your machine looks like, but what your results look like.

Five failure patterns account for most of what reaches support. Four of them are fixed without opening a ticket at all.

The number on the box is a logic capacity. The letter after it is a transceiver. Neither one is a stealth rating.

The FPGA itself is rarely the problem. The usual causes are the cable, the bridge chip, the thermal design and the board revision.

Ring 0 is a very good seat. It is not a seat that sees everything, and the gap is built into the design rather than a matter of effort.

Any percentage on a page like this would be a number nobody in this market can compute. So we publish dated states instead.

A key is a credential that opens a delivery. It is not the same object as the entitlement that owns it.

Before any driver loads, a PCIe device has already told the host what it claims to be. That claim is a small, tidy record, and it gives away more than you would think.

You can check every pattern below from a browser in under five minutes, and none of the checks needs you to trust anyone's word, including ours.

What each published state asserts, and who moves it. Why a board that never shows a bad row is not worth reading.

A binary you cannot read is a bet on one vendor staying in business, staying honest, and staying interested.

A board with no red rows is not a good sign, because it usually means nobody with bad news to report has ever updated it.

The five steps between a paid firmware order and a card that enumerates. Two of them are yours rather than ours.

Independent security research built the toolchain this whole market runs on. It is worth knowing whose work it is.

Most publishers say nothing about what they detect, but Krafton has published a roadmap that names its priority and gives a number.

Some titles now refuse to start without platform attestation, and the question is moving from what a driver sees to what the firmware will vouch for.

The biggest change this year was not a new driver but platform attestation, which has gone from optional to a condition of entry.

The first twenty-four hours of a scare are almost entirely noise. Here is how the real signal separates out, and what a vendor should be doing while it does.

Past a certain point, the question is no longer what your machine looks like, but what your results look like.

The number on the box is a logic capacity. The letter after it is a transceiver. Neither one is a stealth rating.

The FPGA itself is rarely the problem. The usual causes are the cable, the bridge chip, the thermal design and the board revision.

A binary you cannot read is a bet on one vendor staying in business, staying honest, and staying interested.

Independent security research built the toolchain this whole market runs on. It is worth knowing whose work it is.

Before a monitor shows anything, it hands the source a small ROM describing itself. Everything a fuser does happens around that handshake.

A USB device introduces itself before it is allowed to do anything. That introduction is a structured record, and it is far more specific than most people expect.

The USB cable between the two machines is the shortest leash on the desk. The layout has to be designed outward from it.

Ring 0 is a very good seat. It is not a seat that sees everything, and the gap is built into the design rather than a matter of effort.

Any percentage on a page like this would be a number nobody in this market can compute. So we publish dated states instead.

A key is a credential that opens a delivery. It is not the same object as the entitlement that owns it.

Before any driver loads, a PCIe device has already told the host what it claims to be. That claim is a small, tidy record, and it gives away more than you would think.

Three separate things change in a patch, and they cost wildly different amounts to repair. Only one of them is what people mean by updating the offsets.

A used board can be a good purchase. But only if you price the hardware alone and get the photographs before the money moves.

The card is not the expensive part: the item people forget is a second computer, and the item they underspend on costs about as much as lunch.

Five failure patterns account for most of what reaches support. Four of them are fixed without opening a ticket at all.

You can check every pattern below from a browser in under five minutes, and none of the checks needs you to trust anyone's word, including ours.

A board with no red rows is not a good sign, because it usually means nobody with bad news to report has ever updated it.

What each published state asserts, and who moves it. Why a board that never shows a bad row is not worth reading.

The five steps between a paid firmware order and a card that enumerates. Two of them are yours rather than ours.