News Tech: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit on Tuesday fanned Chinese hostility amid escalating hostilities between China and Taiwan. Prior to Pelosi’s arrival, suspected Chinese hackers launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Taiwan’s government websites....

News Tech: A Linux kernel “fix” that allowed STIBP while using the IBPB mode for Retbleed mitigations on AMD processors was released this morning. In other words, this improved manner of Retbleed mitigation requires more safeguards. Retbleed, a novel speculative execution attack that takes...