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On the dangers of Intel's frequency scaling
While I was writing the post comparing the new Qualcomm server chip, Centriq, to our current stock of Intel Skylake-based Xeons, I noticed a disturbing phenomena.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 21 posts.
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ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm ARM vs. Intel CPU Comparison
One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware.
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Intel's Management Engine
Recent CPUs from Intel requires a binary called the “Management Engine” (Intel ME, or ME for short). This binary is one of three parts required if a business elects to use Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT), which Purism avoids. Purism laptops can function with a neutralized and disabled ME, as we have tested…
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A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Understand iPhone performance and its relation to your battery.
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Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Management Engine
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor
Google’s first custom-designed co-processor for consumer products is built into every Pixel 2. Soon, it will enable more applications to use Pixel 2’s camera for taking …
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Titan in depth: Security in plaintext
While there are no absolutes in computer security, we design, build and operate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with the goal to protect customers' code and data. We harden our architecture at multiple layers, with components that include Google-designed hardware, a Google-controlled firmware stack, Google-curated OS…
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I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors
Instructors of “Introduction to programming” courses know that students are willing to blame the failures of their programs on anything. Sorting routine discards half of the data? “That might be a Windows virus!” Binary search always fails? “The Java compiler is acting funny today!” More experienced programmers know…
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An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
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Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
Hidden away in Juicero’s bad week of press is one of the most powerful lessons we preach to hardware startups: unconstrained development is lethal. Last week Bloomberg published an article exposing how easy it is to “hack” Juicero’s produce packs by squeezing them with your hands, deeming the $69
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iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
A Reddit post from last week has sparked a discussion regarding iPhone performance as a function of battery age. While we expect battery capacity to decrease as batteries age, we expect processor performance to stay the same. However, users with older iPhones with lower-than-expected Geekbench 4 scores have reported…
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Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadcom's WI-FI Chipsets
Author: Nitay Artenstein Introduction Fully remote exploits that allow for compromise of a target without any user interaction have become something of a myth in recent years. While some are occasionally still found against insecure and unpatched targets such as routers, various IoT devices or old versions of Windows…
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x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware
When customers come to us with new and unique requirements for AWS, we listen closely, ask lots of questions, and do our best to understand and address their needs. When we do this, we make the resulting service or feature generally available; we do not build one-offs or “snowflakes” for individual customers. That…
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Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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