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This sentence killed me: "Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers who discovered the latest round of chip flaws, said it works “just like” it PCs and can read data
by S_A_P 7y ago
This sentence killed me:
"Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers who discovered the latest round of chip flaws, said it works “just like” it PCs and can read data off the processor. That’s potentially a major problem in cloud environments where different customers’ virtual machines run on the same server hardware."
What are they saying here?
- jcoffland 7y agoIt should read: > ...said it works “just like” in PCs The number of mistakes in the Techcrunch article is atrocious.
- ficklepickle 7y agoI found two and emailed the author. It's my sad little hobby. He replied promptly and they all should be fixed now. In fact, he found a third that I missed. Keep in mind, this article was posted at 3am pacific, 6am eastern. Assuming the author is in North America, he was probably under a deadline and rather tired. I have found similar typos from prominent writers. Sometimes they email me back, which I appreciate. I found one in an article by Cory Doctorow on boingboing. I checked on builtwith.com, and they use WordPress/Jetpack. Jetpack has a feature that will warn you if you try and publish something with spelling mistakes, it is just not enabled by default. I let Mr Doctorow know all this, in a very polite manner, and he responded with "many thanks". I'm not big on celebrity worship, but it still made my day.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoThank you for your service!
- xondono 7y agoI know this comment adds nothing of value but I have to quote it anyway “Service guarantees citizenship, want to know more?”
- jcims 7y agoYour 'sad little hobby' is directly addressing one of the biggest cultural problems we face today. For some reason I never thought to approach it that way, I may pick it up myself if you don't mind the company.
- mfatica 7y agoWell, it's techcrunch
- dang 7y agoThis is from the Techcrunch article on the story: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/zombieload-flaw-intel-processors/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/zombieload-flaw-intel-proc... We merged that HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911465) into this one, via this other one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911715).