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• PCI Express 7.0 Specs Released

  12-06-2025 23:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  The PCI-SIG, which oversees the development of the PCIe specification, has officially released the final spec for PCI Express 7.0. "The PCIe 7.0 specification increases the per-lane data transfer rate to 128 GT/s in each direction, which is twice as fast as PCIe 6.0 supports and four times faster than PCIe 5.0," reports Tom's Hardware. "Such a significant performance increase enables devices with 16 PCIe 7.0 lanes to transfer up to 256 GB/s in each direction, not accounting for protocol overhead
  
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• Microsoft Just Teased Its Next-Gen Xbox Console, and Nobody Noticed

  12-06-2025 22:50 via games.slashdot.org
  Microsoft quietly teased its next-generation Xbox by showcasing its collaboration with Asus "to bring two Xbox Ally handhelds to the market later this year," writes The Verge's Tom Warren. From the report: The Xbox Ally handhelds run Windows, but the Xbox team has worked with Windows engineers to boot these PC handhelds into a full-screen Xbox UI. The Windows desktop doesn't even fully load, and you use the Xbox app UI as a launcher to get to all your games (even Steam titles) and apps like Disc
  
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• CISA Releases Cybersecurity Advisory on SimpleHelp RMM Vulnerability

  12-06-2025 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA released Cybersecurity Advisory: Ransomware Actors Exploit Unpatched SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management to Compromise Utility Billing Software Provider.
  This advisory is in response to ransomware actors targeting customers of a utility billing software provider through unpatched vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM).
  This incident is part of a broader trend of ransomware actors exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp RMM since January 2025.
  
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