#cpu
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Anthropic to spend $11.6B on Akamai's cloud — and get a stake in return
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, and in return gets the right to buy up to 5% of the supplier — an unusual inversion of the typical "investor bets on customer" pattern.
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Interrupt Injection: A Precisely Timed Interrupt Slips Past Spectre v2 Defenses
MIT CSAIL researchers have shown that an unprivileged program on Linux can wedge itself into the gap between the moment the branch predictor is cleared and the moment the kernel uses it — re-“poisoning” it and bypassing the standard mitigations against Spectre v2.