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Unveil first code, joins giants in industry standard-club Last week, the first RISC-V port of its seL4 microkernel was released by the Data61 division of the Australian government's Commonwealth...

A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more...

All it would take is a low-level programming bug in your computer's CPU.

Coprocessors drafted for threat detection duties Having weathered revelations in January that its chips can be attacked through a novel class of side-channel vulnerabilities – mostly addressed...

And it talks to Azure. Cortana probably spotted lurking nearby Microsoft has designed a family of Arm-based system-on-chips for Internet-of-Things devices that runs its own flavor of Linux, and...

The crooks don't steal your whole card, which you'd probably notice, but just the chip from it...

If your PC runs one of Intel’s older microprocessors, bad news

The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a new scam involving the temporary theft of chip-based debit cards issued to large corporations. In this scheme, the fraudsters...

Company claims it's too hard, and few systems have exposure to attack.

Intel has halted patches for older chips addressing the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update.