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Starliner was astronauts’ ‘lifeboat’ if shattered Russian satellite hit space station; still no return date

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Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were strapped into their “lifeboat vehicles” and prepared for an emergency evacuation after a defunct Russian satellite broke into hundreds of pieces. That also applied to Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which officials said could have reached Earth if debris had crashed into the ISS. “We used Starliner for that … Read more

Armguard defenses are shattered 95% of the time by speculative execution

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In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as initially hoped. MTE was implemented and supported last year in Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones and previously in Linux. The goal is … Read more