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AMD is preparing what could be a meaningful upgrade to the PC gaming experience with its upcoming Zen six processors, expected to debut at CES two thousand twenty six. Beyond raw speed gains, the company is reportedly implementing per-core optimizations for power and thermal management, targeting the microstutters and frame-rate dips that have long frustrated even high-end gaming rigs.
On the firmware front, a company called three-em-deb has released the first open-source UEFI firmware for AMD's AM five platform, under the name Dasharo version zero point nine. Built on Coreboot and AMD's own openSIL framework, it brings a level of transparency and user control to motherboard firmware that the enthusiast community has been pushing toward for years.
And in the world of cryptocurrency, the fallout from a vulnerability in the Coldcard hardware wallet is telling a different story than the FTX collapse did. Rather than pulling funds off exchanges, smaller bitcoin holders are actually moving their assets onto them, seeking institutional safety over self-custody — a striking reversal of what we typically see when trust in the ecosystem breaks down.
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