Spectre 1.1 and 1.2 Vulnerabilities Disclosed
Two new vulnerabilities exploiting flaws in CPUs speculative execution have been recently disclosed. Dubbed Spectre 1.1 and 1.2, both are variants of the original Spectre (Spectre-v1) vulnerability and leverage speculative stores to create speculative buffer overflows which can escape Spectre-v1 mitigations.
NetBSD 8.0 Brings Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU Mitigations, and More
NetBSD 8.0, a major release of the BSD-based OS providing portability across many architectures, brings mitigations for the Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU vulnerabilities, along with many new features and bug fixes.
Google Cloud Incident Root-Cause Analysis and Remediation
Google disclosed its root-cause analysis of an incident affecting a few of its Cloud services that increased error rates between 33% and 87% for about 32 minutes, along with the steps they will take to improve the platform performance and availability.
Elixir 1.7 Improves Error Handling, Logging, and Testing
Elixir 1.7 is focused on quality of life improvements, writes Elixir creator José Valim. Those include a new __STACKTRACE__ construct to retrieve the stacktrace, integration with Erlang’s new :logger module, improvements to Elixir’s unit testing library ExUnit, and support for metadata in documentation.
Rust 2018 is Approaching: Managing the Transition from Rust 2015
The first release of Rust 2018, corresponding to Rust 1.31, will be ready on December 6 2018, writes the Rust Core Team, consolidating under a new label the wealth of new features that have enriched the language since Rust 2015 was first delivered.