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Ransomware has emerged in recent years as one of the most pervasive and effective cyber threats. It is generally easy to automate and execute ransomware attacks, and there is very little risk to the attackers—yet this type of attack enables cybercrimin… Continue reading Intel Teams with Cybereason to Fight Ransomware at the CPU Level
Chipmaker investigates a leak of intellectual property from its partner and customer resource center. Continue reading Hackers Dump 20GB of Intel’s Confidential Data Online
Alibaba Group introduced its first AI inference chip today, a neural processing unit called Hanguang 800 that it says makes performing machine learning tasks dramatically faster and more energy-efficient. The chip, announced today during Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Computing Conference in Hangzhou, is already being used to power features on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites, including product […] Continue reading Alibaba unveils Hanguang 800, an AI inference chip it says significantly increases the speed of machine learning tasks
AMD announced that Google and Twitter are among the companies now using EPYC Rome processors during a launch event for the 7nm chips today. The release of EPYC Rome marks a major step in AMD’s processor war with Intel, which said last month that its own 7nm chips, Ice Lake, won’t be available until 2021 […] Continue reading Google and Twitter are using AMD’s new EPYC Rome processors in their datacenters
Fungible, a startup that wants to help data centers cope with the increasingly massive amounts of data produced by new technologies, has raised a $200 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from Norwest Venture Partners and its existing investors. As part of the round, SoftBank Investment Advisers senior managing partner Deep […] Continue reading Fungible raises $200 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data
Nvidia has released 13 patches targeting two low-end embedded computing boards. Continue reading Nvidia patches severe bugs in edge computing modules
Arm, in collaboration with a variety of testing partners, has announced a series of certifications intended to make sure internet of things (IoT) platforms built using its processors are secure. In 2017 Arm created the Platform Security Architecture (… Continue reading Arm Bolsters IoT Security Testing
Researchers also devise a Spectre-like attack with no known mitigation. Continue reading Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
Of the six advisories Intel released last week, the most interesting is a flaw discovered in the company’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Continue reading Intel patches another security flaw in SGX technology
It’s no longer necessary to run attacker code on the victim system. Continue reading New Spectre attack enables secrets to be leaked over a network