Business A year after Meltdown and Spectre, security researchers are still announcing new serious risks from low-level chip operations Cory Doctorow
security Son of Spectre: researchers are about to announce eight more Meltdown-style defects in common microprocessors Cory Doctorow
security AMDFLAWS: a series of potentially devastating (but controversial) attacks on AMD processors Cory Doctorow
infosec 139 pieces of (seemingly nonfunctional) malware that exploit Spectre and Meltdown are now circulating in the wild Cory Doctorow
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class war Astounding coincidence: Intel's CEO liquidated all the stock he was legally permitted to sell after learning of catastrophic processor flaws Cory Doctorow
security Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there's only a fix for one of them, and it sucks Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Upgrade your PC with this sale on refurbished computers from Microsoft, HP, Dell, and more Boing Boing's Shop
antifa A Civil War reenactor tried to frame Antifa by fabricating threats against his own Civil War reenactments Thom Dunn
Business The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4-20 minutes Cory Doctorow
picks Art pranksters upload Mark Zuckerberg deepfake to Instagram to test Facebook's non-removal policy Xeni Jardin
#deletefacebook Europe's top trustbuster thinks it'll be impossible to break up Facebook Cory Doctorow
uk Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers" Cory Doctorow
