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apparently intel has finally figured out why 13th and 14th gen CPU are failing. the issue is mainly caused by a faulty microcode algorithm, which causes the CPU requesting more voltage than it needs and results in oxidation issues within the chip itself.

CPU's that do not show any symptoms yet could be saved by a microcode update, but there is no real hope for those that already started to rust away

raise your paw if youre surprised that bad actors now distribute malware disguised as "crowdstrike fix / update"

So apparently Chrome ships with an extension that is invisible to the user, can not be disabled and allows any *.google.com page to get detailed information about CPU and memory usage.

It is apparently at least 10 years old, was originally developed to debug Hangouts and people do claim that it is also shipped in Brave and Edge.

Who knows what else might be hidden in there!

Original Tweet: https://xcancel.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018
Chrome Source: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/hangout_services/
Commit from October, 2013: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443

Some people have apparently not only gone through the trouble of digging out the latest available version of Archie (old FTP indexer / search engine from the mid 80's / 90's before Google was a thing), but they even set up a fresh install and made a web interface available. Even better: The entire source code apparently also still exists.

Video about said resurrection: https://piped.video/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI