Lazy FP State Restore Vulnerability Affects Most Intel Core CPUs

Intel has disclosed a new vulnerability affecting most of its Core processors and making them targets for side-channel attacks similar to Spectre and Meltdown. The vulnerability, dubbed Lazy FP state restore (CVE–2018–3665), allows a process to infer the contents of FPU/MMX/SSE/AVX registers belonging to other processes.

Caching Clang-Based C++ Compiler Zapcc Open-Sourced

Zapcc is a caching C++ compiler based on a fork of Clang/LLVM that claims to be up to 50x faster on recompilations and 2–5x faster on full builds. Developed by Creemple and initially released at the end of 2015, Zapcc is now open-source.

Rust 1.27 Adds Support for SIMD

SIMD support is the most notable new feature in Rust 1.27, along with a more explicit syntax for traits.

TLBleed Can Leak Cryptographic Keys from CPUs Snooping on TLBs

A new side-channel vulnerability affecting Intel processors, known as TLBleed, can leak information by snooping on Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLBs), writes VUsec security researcher Ben Gras.

Git 2.18 Adds Support for Git Protocol Version 2

Support for the Git wire Protocol version 2 is now available in the latest official version of the Git client, Git 2.18, along with other new features aimed at improving performance and UI.