How good are mitigations to speculative execution attacks (Spectre, Meltdown) on the new Apple processors?

Do they beat Intel in this respect, too?

Microsoft is rebranding every one of their products "Copilot", so at this point it seems hard to avoid using it.

Can someone ELI5 what they are trying to build? Is it something similar to Android's verified boot + attestation or Play Integrity?

Because it's trivial to circumvent this security feature with a Faraday bag.

If you block Cloudflare, you block about 25% of the internet. Good luck with that.

Can't you do the same in a more standards-compatible way with CTRL+c, CTRL+v?

They have no need for it, when they always have a phone in their pocket. Are we also surprised people can't use a slide rule, ride a horse, or light a fire with a flint stone?

Oof I forgot that Slashdot is stuck in the second millennium ASCII era.

Julia already supports arbitrary Unicode, but the programmers there are more serious and use it for serious stuff like λ ≡ μ and a Ã-- b . The standard VScode Julia package supports it, and it's great for readability.

Makes sense, my first thought was also that it is a weird wording that makes it sound like evolution is an abomination that goes against the laws of nature.

2025 is the year of Linux on the <strike>desktop</strike> gaming tablet!

Are they going to put ads in generated code? Like printf("Buy Coca Cola\n")?

Especially wrong claims of linearity: it's 500% more, not 600% more.

> OSS doesn't charge 30% as a publishing fee to developers.

Well, in any case, 30% of zero is zero.

What is the idea behind giving a reward for an "exploit chain"? This seems counterproductive: if I find a significant exploit that doesn't pwn a Mac computer entirely, I am not incentivized to report it immediately, but rather to wait until I find another one to chain it with and win the jackpot.