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NASA launching a planet researching spacecraft to search for worlds beyond our solar system that orbit other stars. The exoplanet survey satellite is called „TESS“. It shall scan nearly the entire sky to discover planets around the closest and brightest stars.
Re:New Spectre/Meltdown Variants: MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:17PM (#16433049)
MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols

"The recent Meltdown [9] and Spectre [8] attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for automatically synthesizing microarchitecture-specific programs capable of producing any user-specified hardware execution pattern of interest."

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