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Meltdown and Spectre: What they are, and what to do

The Parallax

Two newly discovered critical security vulnerabilities are very likely affecting your laptop and phone, security researchers revealed on Wednesday. The bad news is that because the vulnerabilities are in the hardware architecture of the chips that power them, patched devices may run slower. ”—Dan Kaminsky, security researcher.

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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab , a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer cybersecurity, published research in December demonstrating how 28 home wireless routers fail to use even basic security techniques. The organization’s acting director, Tim Carstens, says the research will be published soon on the CITL site.

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Pliops lands $100M for chips that accelerate analytics in data centers

TechCrunch

And in the realm of startups, Blueshift Memory and Speedata are creating hardware that they say can perform analytics tasks significantly faster than standard processors. Beitler, the former director of advanced memory solutions at Samsung’s Israel Research Center, co-founded Pliops in 2017 alongside Moshe Twitto and Aryeh Mergi.

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Technology Trends for 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It may be small consolation, but the drops for several of the most important topics are relatively small: Linux is down 1.6%, Terraform is down 4.0%, and Infrastructure as Code is down 7.3%. CompTIAs Linux+ exam held its own, with a decline of 0.3%. On our platform, weve seen that Linux resources are in high demand.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

“Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email. ” Together, launched in June 2022, is the brainchild of Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang.

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Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microsoft has begun a project that will make Linux’s eBPF available on Windows. In the Linux world, eBPF has proven invaluable for observability, security, and compliance tools. Windows eBPF will be bytecode compatible with Linux. Want to run Linux on an Intel 4004 , a CPU from 1971? Python 3.13 has been released.

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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Neither mentions AI; both address the question of why our hardware is getting faster and faster but our applications arent. Weve also noted the return of Pebble, the first smart watch, and an AI-driven table lamp from Apple Research that looks like it came from Pixars logo. The companys looking for researchers to help with testing.