Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider' [Mon Apr 17 2023]

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Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'

Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw

 
 

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Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

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Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

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China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high

Despite US blocks to advanced technology nodes

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The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver

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Germany and Intel both want more from planned Magdeburg mega-fab

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Sony Semiconductor sinks Simoleans into Raspberry Pi to advance edge AI

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Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great

Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship

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US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam

Maybe our prince has come at last

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Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools

Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS don't play nicely under certain conditions, Microsoft says

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While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn

Redmond expands a digital ID process for its platform as Musk seeks cash for blue check marks

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Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'

Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw

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To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO

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China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan

Plus: Warren Buffett’s TSMC worries; CHIPS Act bits China; Japan’s quantum investment; and more

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Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts

Where there's a will…

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FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases

How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation

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Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power

Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM

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Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid

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AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice

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Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars

And you thought patching your production environment was stressful

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ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons

Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years

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BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

He was charged on the spot

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