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Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior”

reader comments 15 with Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts. The flaw, affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs, causes them to “enter a glitch state where the normal rules don’t apply,” Tavis Ormandy, one of several security researchers… Read More: Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior” »

SGX, Intel’s supposedly impregnable data fortress, has been breached yet again

Enlarge (credit: Intel) Intel’s latest generation of CPUs contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to obtain encryption keys and other confidential information protected by the company’s software guard extensions, the advanced feature that acts as a digital vault for security users’ most sensitive secrets. Abbreviated as SGX, the protection is designed to provide a fortress… Read More: SGX, Intel’s supposedly impregnable data fortress, has been breached yet… »

A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys

Enlarge Microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and other companies contain a newly discovered weakness that remote attackers can exploit to obtain cryptographic keys and other secret data traveling through the hardware, researchers said on Tuesday. Hardware manufacturers have long known that hackers can extract secret cryptographic data from a chip by measuring the power it consumes… Read More: A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers… »

Samsung has its own AI-designed chip. Soon, others will too

Getty Images reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Samsung is using artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of designing cutting-edge computer chips. The South Korean giant is one of the first chipmakers to use AI to create its chips. Samsung is using AI features in new software… Read More: Samsung has its own AI-designed chip. Soon, others will too »

How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world

Jason Torchinsky reader comments 127 with 84 posters participating Share this story Let’s be honest: 2020 sucks. So much of this year has been a relentless slog of bad news and miserable events that it’s been hard to keep up. Yet most of us have kept up, and the way most of us do so… Read More: How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed… »