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A spectre is haunting Unicode
A Hacker News thread titled 'A spectre is haunting Unicode' contains user comments discussing concerns about Unicode's governance, standardization processes, and potential technical or cultural consequences of recent proposals — but no official announcement, policy change, or verifiable event is reported.
Aug 16, 2026
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible - The Register
Researchers demonstrated Spectre-style speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities on certain RISC-V processor implementations, revealing a security risk previously associated mainly with x86 and ARM architectures.
Published Aug 12, 2026 · Analyzed Aug 16, 2026
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs - The Register
Researchers at MIT demonstrated a new speculative execution attack called TONTOU that bypasses existing Spectre mitigations on Intel and AMD processors, revealing a previously unaddressed vulnerability class in CPU microarchitecture.
Aug 8, 2026
New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes
Researchers discovered a novel CPU side-channel attack called TONTOU that evades current Spectre v2 mitigations and successfully extracts Linux password hashes, revealing a critical gap in hardware-level security defenses.
Aug 6, 2026
New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Researchers at MIT CSAIL discovered a new side-channel attack called INTERRUPT INJECTION that bypasses Spectre v2 mitigations on Intel and AMD CPUs by exploiting timing gaps during branch predictor sanitization.
Aug 6, 2026