ENOTTY

I think Confidential Computing undersells the idea of "Attested Computing". For example, when users send data into the cloud, remote attestation can give them some confidence that data will be used according to the terms of consent.

What features of a hardware platform would cause you to trust it?

Check out the Open Technology Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund

I deliberately bought a share of Hertz during the craze. I knew it had filed for bankruptcy.

If Hertz was somehow rescued, I could make some money and have an interesting story. Maybe the shareholder meetings would be ridiculous parties with other crazy retail investors.

But even if existing shareholders would be wiped out, I wanted to see first hand what happens in this sort of situation. (So far I haven't received any paperwork.)

A great source of these for the US federal jurisdiction is the CrimeADay Twitter account https://twitter.com/crimeaday

there’s going to be a brisk market in reverse engineering the drivers and getting around this

“RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.”

Contrary to the article, AMD is not yet shipping 5nm in volume. (Rumors point to Zen 4 later in 2021.)

Additionally, Intel works with ASML and other similar suppliers. Intel even owns a chunk of ASML.

There's good money to be made selling a solution that detects and blocks rogue DoH requests.

Anyways, it's possible: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3407023.3409192

Intel recently disclosed an ISA extension for matrix operations called Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). It should appear in Sapphire Rapids. https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3600/the-x86-advanced-matrix-...

Intel's 10nm SuperFin process at 5 GHz is quite impressive. Clocks like that, combined with the core improvements, should allow Intel to compete on performance and core count.

A culture war against the political and business elite Worked well enough to get Brexit passed.

How is this submission on the front page and not this other submission from just 2 hours ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25707959

Reading Amazon's reasoning, tech companies are basically setting a standard that if you want to have user-generated content, you must have professional moderators. This seems like it will be a barrier to innovation.

There are a lot of posts on Parler calling for violence, which violate Parler's terms of service. Parler itself doesn't appear to have strategy for moderating these posts.

Apple's ultimatum demands Parler implement a plan for enforcing its own terms of service, and reduce the probability that Parler is used to incite violence.

The economic development fund for the state of Alaska would not be purchasing tracts of lands for the purposes of preservation. They would be purchasing the tracts of land in order to preserve the ability to lease them to oil companies in the future, after the Trump administration leaves office.

It's sort of interesting that for having the same goal of reining in tech giants' power, China uses the language of Marxism while the US uses language like the rule of law, market competition, etc.

We shouldn't forget that Bezos himself was the one who got blackmailed very recently. It wasn't a tech company that did it, but it was a right-wing media outlet with an axe to grind.

Wow, I was just on No Starch's site for their Thanksgiving sale. How did I miss this? Thanks!

While I haven’t read this one just yet, I’ve found all of the author’s previous zines incredibly useful. They’re densely packed with information, presented in a way that makes them great quick reference material. My only wish is that someone could print and bind them into a book.

> Apple didn't have all these issues, because it is in their culture, to provide software that works, without much bloat and with great hardware

It's funny you write this when the linked article specifically calls out Apple's software for a few "warts" and even agrees with Moorhead's and Gruber's take that the software is not yet fully baked.

It's called Display Driver Uninstaller. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-

> they still carry all the x86 baggage in microcode, since tons of bad decisions leading to things like Spectra. ARM doesn't

> AMD is not affected by Spectre

This is not true. AMD, ARM, Intel, and IBM are all affected by Spectre (Bounds Check Bypass) and that particular variant has not been fixed in hardware, and short of disabling speculative execution or radical changes to ISA or microarchitecture, is likely to never be fixed purely in hardware.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05178.pdf

To be fair, there are limits on how far and how fast one can upgrade a fab and upgrades are planned out many years in advance. Equipment for the smaller nodes tends to be larger and more complex and involving more steps; this requires more space. Additionally, ASML only makes around a dozen of the EUV machines each year and they are booked years in advance.

Intel fabs plenty of stuff at the 22 nm node, including chipsets for their CPUs[1], RF and other analog uses[2], novel RAM technologies, and their Lakefield/Foreveros thing. Given Intel's expanding product portfolio, there's likely additional internal customers for older nodes.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-14nm-shortage-h310c,...

[2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9075914

Mythbusters attempted to replicate the 'death ray' and was not successful. It's highly likely that the death ray is a myth

I don't understand this ridiculous conspiracy. What competent government would force one company to backdoor their products but forget about their other competitors, all of which are domestic?

This reminds me of the debates in the Three Body Problem series (fictional) around 'Escapism'

The idea that multiple failures must occur for catastrophic failure is found in certain parts of the computing community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)

Tiger Lake does not have memory tagging. That capability was announced at Architecture Day by Martin Dixon to land in some unspecified future processor.

Tiger Lake has Control-flow Enforcement Technology, which allows the compiler to tag proper targets of control-flow changes.

These sort of exercises have motivated investments in miniaturization of electronics so they can end up being practical on occasion.