MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...

That time I gave a lecture at MIT…and why it didn’t matter | Mickey Z.

Bill Murray is camp counselor Tripper Harrison in the 1979 movie Meatballs Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2018 On March 10, 2003, I gave a very well-attended lecture at the Massachusetts Insti ...

Zeno’s Laughter | John Michael Greer

Zeno of EleaFeb. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? Last week’s post on the fallacy of claiming that there’s one and only one prop ...

Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 5, 2018 This is the second in a two-part article on the debt burden America’s students face. Read Part 1 here. The lending business is heavily stacked against stu ...

Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Dec. 26, 2018 Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors. The advantages of slavery by ...

Moral Obligation | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 11, 2018 What is all the current public angst about? The screaming, the waving of “MAGA” signs, the eruption of open racism and xenophobia? It seems as though, ...

Proof of randomness builds future of digital security | Katherine Q. Ye

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dec. 22, 2017 (Phys.org) -- In an effort to block emerging threats to online security, researchers at Princeton University have developed a method to verify the strength of ...

The 'secret' movement of quantum particles | David Arvidsson-Shukur

Credit: Robert Couse-Baker Dec. 22, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Researchers from the University of Cambridge have taken a peek into the secretive domain of quantum mechanics. In a theoretical paper published ...

New study visualizes motion of water molecules, promises new wave of electronic devices | Takeshi Egami

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led research team used a sophisticated X-ray scattering technique to visualize and quantify the movement of water molecules in space and time, which provides new insi ...

Hidden Genetic Variation Helps Drive Evolution | Mahul Chakraborty

First author Mahul Chakraborty looks through several specimens of fruit flies to identify new phenotypes. Credit: UCI Dec. 22, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Identifying complex mutations in the structure of an ...

Columbia Journalism Review names VTDigger leading news nonprofit | Anne Galloway

Anne Galloway -- VTDigger Dec 13 2017 Dear Readers: In an article published on Friday, the Columbia Journalism Review cited VTDigger as a national model for local nonprofit investigative news. David ...