top 10 hacker news stories for 2018-01-04

Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

https://github.com/tombh/texttop

8 years ago

★ 18.7k JavaScript LGPL-2.1

iMac Pro's T2 chip

https://www.macworld.com/article/3245764/macs/the-t2-chip-makes-the-imac-pro-the-start-of-a-mac-revolution.html

8 years ago

Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-updates-protect-systems-security-exploits/

8 years ago

Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/

8 years ago

Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock

http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-ceo-krzanich-sold-shares-after-company-was-informed-of-chip-flaw-2018-1

8 years ago

LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack

https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723

8 years ago

Why things might have taken so long

https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/16417/

8 years ago

Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT

https://github.com/paragonie/past

8 years ago

★ 3.3k PHP

Meltdown and Spectre

https://spectreattack.com/

8 years ago

More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/more-details-about-mitigations-for-cpu_4.html

8 years ago