EVAX paper proposes on-demand defenses for microarchitectural attacks
Authors report cutting InvisiSpec overhead from 27% to 1.26% and Fencing from 74% to 3.45%.
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PhotoFinish enables portable timerless probing of microarchitectural latencies
Converts latency differences into architectural values via parallel threads and shared memory.
TranScope: What the Software Hides About LLM Training Data, the Hardware Reveals at Scale, and Accelerators Magnify
TranScope detects LLM training membership from TLB and accelerator timing without a surrogate model.
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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