Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips

It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack:

The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. By loading the contents into the CPU cache before it’s actually needed, the DMP, as the feature is abbreviated, reduces latency between the main memory and the CPU, a common bottleneck in modern computing. DMPs are a relatively new phenomenon found only in M-series chips and Intel’s 13th-generation Raptor Lake microarchitecture, although older forms of prefetchers have been common for years…

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2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: [HEX]POD – Climate Tracker and Digital Nose

[eBender] was travelling India with friends, when one got sick. Unable to find a thermometer anywhere during COVID, they finally ended up in a hospital. After being evacuated back home, …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: [HEX]POD – Climate Tracker and Digital Nose

Samsung is Bringing Galaxy AI to Previous Generation Phones in the U.S.

Samsung will deliver Galaxy AI to its Galaxy S23 series, S23 FE, Z Fold5, and Z Flip5 phones and the Tab S9 series tablets via a One UI software update.
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