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Most vulnerabilities in modern computer systems are patched without any noticeable impact for end users. That’s not necessarily the case with Meltdown and Spectre, which strike at the very heart of microprocessors functionality. A new round of Spectre flaws have appeared, but Google is in the process of adding functionality …

After four years of secrets, speculation, and vague product promises, Magic Leap has finally unveiled that its mixed reality headset will hit store shelves in an exclusive deal with ATT. The company has also unveiled some prerecorded — but not live — demos of its technology, finally giving us a …

A new exploit related to the Spectre attacks we’ve been cataloguing since the beginning of the year has arrived, and Intel has a new plan for dealing with these events as they continue to periodically pop up. As has been the case with previous Spectre attacks, this new variant targets …

When Intel revamped its Xeon product branding last year with the Xeon Scalable Processor family, it didn’t replace its entire Xeon lineup in one fell swoop. Entry-level Xeons were still tied to the old E3 v6 family and were explicitly based on Kaby Lake (7th Gen) Intel cores, rather than …

ARM is under fire for the way it attempted to kneecap a fledgling open-source hardware project, and has retreated from its own line of attack after several days. ARM had launched a website, riscv-basics.com, which purported to offer “real” information on the rival ISA. As one might expect, the “information” …

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep neural networks are all red-hot topics right now. After decades of relative obscurity, these technologies are viewed as the key to driving the next generation of computing advances. Apple has been viewed as playing catch-up in these fields in some respects and the company …

Google has become adept at gobbling up your online activities to build a profile of you. That’s how it serves ads, but it also affects the content you see on services like YouTube and traditional search. Browsers have private browsing modes to disassociate your actions with your profile, but that’s …

Any company that wants to do business in China has to abide by the draconian censorship laws imposed by the country’s government. Even Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world, has to play ball. According to security researcher Patrick Wardle, Apple’s efforts to appease the Chinese government …

Yesterday, former Intel engineer Francois Piednoël tweeted that the long era of the Intel “Extreme Edition” processor family was about to come to an end. Intel is now pushing back on that messaging, claiming that the branding is very much alive. As a brand, the Extreme Edition dates back to …

Over the past three years, we’ve seen a revolution rippling through NAND manufacturing as companies transition towards stacked NAND configurations that pile dozens of layers of storage directly on top of each other, rather than in a conventional 2D configuration. Samsung has announced another major milestone in this process and …