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Spectre and Meltdown: Insecurity at the heart of modern CPU design
Making servers virtually better
Advances in virtualisation technology mean servers no longer need to be tied to a particular piece of hardware - they can be backed up or moved from one machine to another in the same way a file is copied from disk to disk
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eBay built its own servers in push to replatform its backend infrastructure
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Intel 'gags' Linux distros from revealing performance hit from Spectre patches
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