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The solution, called Retpoline, was created by Google software engineer Paul Turner to mitigate the Spectre vulnerability without a loss to performance.
Intel cautioned against going too far with software techniques to fix the vulnerabilities, implying slowdowns might be the fault of overzealous coders. It praised Google’s fix while withholding any recommendation for Microsoft’s approach.
The administration says two new Dell systems being added to existing IBM and Cray clusters in Virginia and Florida data centers will boost its compute power by one third and storage by 60 percent, extending its visibility into future weather from...
The greatest noticeable impact will be on servers in corporate on-prem. data centers, Microsoft said, where even small deficits in performance can be magnified because those machines handle a large volume of actions that require talking to the...
