Hardware security researchers reveal on November 1, 2026 that a Lenovo-branded fingerprint USB drive marketed as AES-256 encrypted contains an unencrypted plain microSD card inside, while follow-up audits uncover backdoors in other secure drives.
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Open-source USB tool unlocks Nvidia’s half-speed GPU AI limiter on Windows — lifts GPUs’ FP16 math performance up to 65%
An open-source UEFI USB tool published on November 1, 2026 bypasses Nvidia’s FP16 tensor accumulation rate limiter on GeForce RTX 20, 30, and 40 series GPUs on Windows, boosting AI math throughput by up to 65%.