The Full Nerd ep 208: Steam Deck reactions and Nvidia LHR malware

In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray mull reactions to Valve’s Steam Deck, malware disguised as a instrument to unlock corpulent mining capabilities on Nvidia graphics cards, and a brand recent chiplet routine.

The preliminary Valve Steam Deck opinions are lastly in, and no shock, they’re rather blended. Despite this, the crew has high-hopes for the spectacular handheld game PC console. From there, the crew strikes on to the veteran adage that if it looks too factual, it doubtlessly is. That’s the lesson folks are learning from a hotly anticipated mod that promised to elevate Nvidia’s Lite Hash Price crypto-mining limit on newer GPUs, but as an quite quite loads of delivers a payload of malware.

To discontinuance the associated price out, Gordon, Brad, and Adam kick across the recent Standard Chipset Interconnect Specific routine that veteran enemies will conform to make spend of on recent CPUs.

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