rsync 3.5.2 fixes CPU exhaustion flaw
3.5.2 prevents malicious checksum attacks and adds priority controls.
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Cactus Whistle, a 16.9 MB speech model, tested against Whisper Base
The guide is framed around word error rate, speed, streaming, timestamps, keywords and speech-to-tool calls on CPU.
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New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses
BTR, a new Spectre-v2 variant from VUSec researchers, hijacks stale JIT branch predictions to leak kernel secrets from fully patched systems.
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Risky Bulletin: Intel ends paid bug bounties
Intel dropped cash payouts from its bug bounty, which previously paid up to $100,000.
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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic will pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years for cloud infrastructure, Akamai's largest contract.
58 hardware vulnerabilities: A guide to the threats
CSO Online reference guide catalogs 58 CPU and DRAM hardware vulnerabilities from Spectre and Meltdown onward, covering side-channel flaws and mitigation limits.
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
Lemire's analysis shows AMD Ryzen X3D chips gained ~50% Geekbench 6 performance in two years through wider cores, larger caches, and 512-bit SIMD units.
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Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now
NVIDIA's Vera CPU, its first processor built for AI agents, is now shipping at scale to partners across the AI ecosystem.
A Three-Layer Caching Architecture for Low-Latency LLM Web Search on Commodity CPU Hardware
OreoLook's three-layer Redis caching architecture cuts redundant LLM calls and embedding work for CPU-hosted web-search answer generation.