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New Spectre-Related ‘Medium Severity’ Flaw Patched in Linux Kernel
On Thursday, Eduardo (sirdarckcat) Vela Nava, from Google’s product security response team, disclosed a Spectre-related flaw in version 6.2 of the Linux kernel. The bug, designated medium severity, was initially reported to cloud service providers — those most likely to be affected — on December 31, 2022, and was patched in Linux on February 27, 2023.
“The kernel failed to protect applications that attempted to protect against Spectre v2, leaving them open to attack from other processes running on the same physical core in another hyperthread,” the vulnerability disclosure explains. The consequence of that attack is potential information exposure (e.g., leaked private keys) through this pernicous problem….
Spectre v2 — the variant implicated in this particular vulnerability — relies on timing side-channels to measure the misprediction rates of indirect branch prediction in order to infer the contents of protected memory. That’s far from optimal in a cloud environment with shared hardware… The bug hunters who identified the issue found that Linux userspace processes to defend against Spectre v2 didn’t work on VMs of “at least one major cloud provider.”
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Delta Air Lines (DAL) sees improvement in business travel helped by small and medium business demand
Shares of Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) were down 1% on Thursday after the company delivered mixed results for the first quarter of 2023. Revenue beat expectations while earnings […]
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Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perk
Publishing platform Medium is opening up its debut Mastodon instance, me.dm, to its members, the company announced today. Last month, Medium first teased its plans around the Fediverse — the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the Twitter alternative Mastodon and others. It said it wanted to make access to […]
Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perk by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Trulieve begins ads on Twitter, first US cannabis company to advertise on the medium
Medium embraces Twitter alternative Mastodon with launch of its own community
Online publishing platform Medium, originally created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, announced today that it’s embracing the open source Mastodon platform by creating its own instance to support its authors and their publications. The company said it’s launching me.dm, a Mastodon community that will offer reliable infrastructure, moderation and a short domain name to make […]
Medium embraces Twitter alternative Mastodon with launch of its own community by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
The Last of Us’ Showrunner Unsure Whether the Game Is the Greatest Story of Its Medium or Just Silly Pixels
“Will [adaption X] break the video game curse?” is a debate as cyclical and pointless in entertainment criticism as “Are video games art?” is in games media, but Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin is intent on blending the two together to make his press tour as insufferable as possible.
Damien Bendall probation review ordered over ‘medium risk’ classification before murder
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UK’s Medium Businesses Say Tech is Key to Unlocking Economic Growth
Amid the rising cost-of-trading and economic uncertainty, the majority (65%) of business leaders from medium-sized UK companies say technology is…
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