Intel SAPM Is a New Proposal for Mitigating Spectre Attacks By Lucian Armasu published 2 October 19 Intel's security team developed a proposal for SAPM, a new type of CPU memory that would prevent attacks like Metldown and Spectre but hurt performance.
Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy. Is Encryption Safe? By Lucian Armasu published 28 September 19 A Financial Times report revealed that Google achieved quantum supremacy. Is it now time to panic about encryption being broken, or do we have nothing to worry about?
Developer Releases Unpatchable Jailbreak Exploit For Older iOS Devices By Lucian Armasu published 27 September 19
Report: AMD Server Chip Market Share to Grow 10x From Pre-Epyc Era By Lucian Armasu published 26 September 19 AMD's recent contract winning streak is largely due to the impressive performance and value that its second-gen Epyc server processors offer.
D-Wave Announces First Sale of Its 5,000-Qubit Quantum Computer By Lucian Armasu published 24 September 19 D-Wave announced that the Los Alamos National Laboratory made the first purchase of its new 5,000-qubit quantum annealing computer.
Facebook Buys CTRL-labs Brain Interface Startup By Lucian Armasu published 24 September 19 Facebook agreed to buy CTRL-labs, a New York startup working on mind reading technology that allows people to control computer interfaces with their thoughts.
Fortune Names AMD's Lisa Su One of the Most Powerful Women in Business By Lucian Armasu published 24 September 19 Fortune Magazine named AMD president and CEO Lisa Su one of the most powerful women in business
IBM Announces New and Improved 53-Qubit Quantum Computer By Lucian Armasu published 18 September 19 IBM announced the largest commercially available quantum computer with 53 qubits. It features a new quantum processor design and smaller electronic components.
Extensions Masquerading as AdBlock and uBlocker Outed as 'Fake' By Lucian Armasu published 17 September 19 AdGuard revealed that two of the most popular ad blocking extensions on the Chrome Web Store are fake.
LastPass Fixes Latest Bug That Exposes User Passwords By Lucian Armasu published 17 September 19 LastPass fixes the latest security flaw discovered by Google Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy, the same security researcher that has uncovered multiple security bugs in LastPass Manager in the past.
India's First Three (Out of 60) Supercomputers Are Here By Lucian Armasu published 14 September 19 The Indian government has finished building three supercomputers as part of ITS National Supercomputing Mission, which aims to build 60 supercomputers by 2022.
China’s Tsinghua DRAM Fab To Be Built By 2021, Says Report By Lucian Armasu published 12 September 19
AMD Epyc CPUs Claim 14 World Records With Red Hat's Help By Lucian Armasu published 12 September 19 Red Hat revealed new performance world records for some data center-specific workloads that ran on AMD's latest Epyc Rome processors.
Hackers Use CAPTCHA to Launch Phishing Campaign By Lucian Armasu published 11 September 19 Security researchers found a Microsoft phishing campaign that prevented automated scanners from identifying it as such bu using CAPTCHA.
Exim Security Flaw Affects Millions Of Email Servers By Lucian Armasu published 9 September 19 Exim developers announced that they've released a patch for a dangerous security flaw in their email server software that impacts millions of email servers.
Qualcomm’s New 5G Chips Target Budget Smartphones in 2020 By Lucian Armasu published 6 September 19 Qualcomm announced that its next-generation 8, 7, and 6-series chips will come integrated with 5G modems, making smartphones significantly more affordable.
State-Sponsored Chinese Group Hacks Enterprise VPN Servers By Lucian Armasu published 6 September 19 Fortinet and Pulse Security customers that haven't updated their VPN servers are now at risk of being targeted by APT5.
Samsung Exynos 980 Launches With 5G Modem, Wi-Fi 6, Powerful AI Processor By Lucian Armasu published 6 September 19 Samsung announced its latest flagship processor, the Exynos 980, which comes with integrated 5G modem, Wi-Fi 6, a new and more powerful NPU.
New Facebook User Data Leak Is Five Times Larger Than Cambridge Analytica Leak By Lucian Armasu published 5 September 19 Researcher finds an unprotected server with leaked Facebook user data affecting more than five times as many people as the Cambridge Analytica data leak did.
USBAnywhere Flaw Leaves Supermicro Servers Vulnerable to Remote Attacks By Lucian Armasu published 3 September 19 Eclypsium researchers uncover new ways to remotely attack Supermicro's servers in "USBAnywhere" security vulnerability.
AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization Came From Work on Consoles By Lucian Armasu published 29 August 19
MIT Engineers Build 15,000-Transistor Carbon Nanotube RISC-V Chip By Lucian Armasu published 29 August 19 MIT and Analog Devices engineers create 15,000-transistor RISC-V CPU from carbon nanotubes, breaking all previous carbon nanotube chip-making records.
DOJ May Block Internet Cable Running From LA to Hong Kong By Lucian Armasu published 28 August 19 The U.S. government may block the 8,000-mile long cable built by Google and Facebook between Los Angeles and Hong Kong over national security fears.
