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  • Slashdot: AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/1835230/amd-warns-of-new-meltdown-spectre-like-bugs-affecting-cpus Source: Slashdot Title: AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD has identified a newly discovered side-channel attack, known as the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA), which poses a potential information disclosure risk across a variety of its chip models. Although the vulnerabilities…

  • The Register: AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/amd_tsa_side_channel/ Source: The Register Title: AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs Feedly Summary: Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a ‘critical’ overall threat – patch accordingly AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead…

  • The Register: Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/nucor_steel_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion Feedly Summary: Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silence Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Hacker News: New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steals data from browsers

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    Source URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-apple-cpu-side-channel-attack-steals-data-from-browsers/ Source: Hacker News Title: New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steals data from browsers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent disclosure by security researchers reveals critical side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors, specifically regarding the FLOP and SLAP attacks. These flaws exploit speculative execution mechanisms to leak sensitive…

  • The Register: Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/torvalds_patch_linux_performance/ Source: The Register Title: Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6% Feedly Summary: 21 lines that show the big man still has what it takes A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux’s multithreaded performance.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…