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By now, we're sure most everyone have heard of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks. If not, head over to https://meltdownattack.com/ and get an overview. Additional technical details are available from Google Project Zero. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html The FreeBSD Security Team was notified of the issue in late December and received a briefing under NDA with the ori...

By now, we're sure most everyone have heard of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks. If not, head over to https://meltdownattack.com/ and get an overview. Additional technical details are available from Google Project Zero. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html The FreeBSD Security Team was notified of the issue in late December and received a briefing under NDA with the ori...

...re talks on timing side-channels in modern CPUs and PySpark at bare-metal speed. Kamil Rytarowski has posted an [update on NetBSD Memory Sanitizer progress](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_llvm_memory_sanitizer_support). ## On the mailing lists * The [Meltdown and Spectre attacks](https://meltdownattack.com/) have of course been big news in the last week. LLVM patches to mitigate Spectre have started to be posted for discussion: [retpoline](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20180101/513630.html), [`__builtin_load_no_speculate`](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-commits/Wee...