Microcode is used to „patch” a CPU in case bugs are found and allows tweaks to very low level logic. From the original research paper it looks like understanding microcode is a challenge, let alone writing new microcode. In all likelihood this will be used for more research and reverse engineering of things that are trade secrets closed from public knowledge.

Now that we have examined the vulnerability that enables arbitrary microcode patches to be installed on all (un-patched) Zen 1 through Zen 4 CPUs, let’s discuss how you can use and expand our tools to author your own patches. We have been working on developing a collection of tools combined into a single project we’re calling zentool. The long-term goal is to provide a suite of capabilities similar to binutils, but targeting AMD microcode instead of CPU machine code. You can find the project source code here along with documentation on how to use the tools.

The zentool suite consists of tools for microcode patch examination including limited disassembly, microcode patch authoring using a limited amount of reverse engineered assembly, microcode patch signing, and microcode patch loading. We plan to also release details on how to decrypt and encrypt microcode patches in the future. A significant portion of the ongoing research is focused on building an accurate understanding of the AMD microcode instruction set – the current disassembly and assembly are not always accurate due to this challenge.

I was head mod of a national sub for 2 years so I’ll offer their perspective.

Big subreddits are constantly attacked by clever ways to self promote. Your trust was broken so many times you were forced into cynicism. Your rules need to be simple and treat everyone equally. You don’t want to make too many judgment calls because they’re always controversial. You don’t want to spend that much time moderating because you’re not getting paid. You don’t have a way to increase your headcount because people who can mod are a precious resource. You have to maintain cohesion within moderation team because you’ll end up squabbling rather than gardening.

But there are also mods that are just scared of losing power.

/draws card

Banning all self promotion is usually done not to play favourites. It gets tiring being a gatekeeper so you just remove that variable. Mods should have been shepherding communities to alternative and open platforms themselves though.

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I’m convinced that media that keep saying this are in cahoots with advertisers who have noticed this ages ago and have astroturfed Reddit beyond being reliable source of information since then.

I think publishers were involved but those services are the lowest priority so I wouldn’t look into it that much.

I’m sorry to say but this person is unfit to mod c/Europe and has been deleting posts quite arbitrarily. Can you please do a fresh mod call? If you don’t find anyone else I can volunteer my time in the interim.

Hopefully mod won’t delete this one altough it’s a shame since original source is obviously better.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/11085158

https://theins.ru/en/politics/270425

We do have “our own” Amazon since 2021. Before that Amazon.de was available in Polish and had multiple distribution centers in Poland so it wasn’t that much of a change other than having access to vanilla Prime (we had Prime Video before).

Allegro has a near monopoly here. It started out as an Ebay clone but over time shifted to more Amazon-like business model. It’s quite nice in terms of usability and user experience compared to both.

It’s plausible that this intelligence service was literally the first to know.

Apparently the leak happened because the discussion took place over an unsecured Webex call which is damning but at least means it’s not a bug or inside source. Still awful security awareness.

I don’t want to but keep getting into devils advocate shoes all the time so apologies in advance.

In my opinion blacklisting of sources is OK but the reason for doing so should be well sourced (Wikipedia paints that institute in rather positive light). I modded polish national sub for a while and we kept this documented as a list with reasons for blacklisting (usually connection to Russian misinfo reported by reputable NGOs) in a public wiki which might be overkill made our lives easier in a long run.

It’s not about boosting anti-EU parties, I’m saying neither PiS nor KO led government did what’s necessary to unlock the funds. KO didn’t change any laws that are the issue, because it would be vetoed by the president. All that was done was essentially executive orders by minister of justice and various legal tricks that could be undone immediately if KO lost power. Things working on a whim of a single person without any checks and balances is not exactly rule of law.

EU critics accused commission of withholding those funds based on sympathies alone and now they have very reasonable proof for just that. It’s not good long term, especially for deeper integration.

It’s nice that we’ll be getting this money but…

This is not a great look for the EU since we have not reached barely any of the milestones. We pinky promised to do so and are likely to achieve them in 2 years (after current presidential term), which is likely but not guaranteed. EU commission president and our prime minister (both EPP coincidentally) are supporting each other’s personal political goals which will be brought up by anti-EU crowd for sure. This screams lack of long term vision, again.

There’s a catch here. Large amount of AML regulations imposed on banks is an indirect form of taxation, even if it wasn’t the original goal. Banks have to do bulk of investigative work that makes sense to do there. To do that they have to employ crapload of people (in Poland, Hungary, Estonia etc). I’m not sure individual governments or EU want to get into that because they could turn out to be less competitive than private sector which has no qualms with outsourcing / offshoring as much as possible.

This is confusing, doesn’t EU mandate a free / basic tier of banking account already? And isn’t pretty much every currency digital too?

Public payment processor is a pipe dream though. Someone has to do AML, insurance. Free wire transfers are subsidized by other revenue streams.

IIRC the issue is that NATO doesn’t necessarily want Austria since their institutions are heavily infiltrated by Russian spies?

Interfax mentions unscheduled repairs at refineries in Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd but fails to mention that they were recently targeted by drone attacks. Oh well.

I think this is fine because while people should be allowed to do light drugs I don’t mind making them jump through some hoops so that it’s not that convenient. Alcohol and nicotine are definitely way too accessible and it affects perception of this law.

I use cannabis in Poland where we accidentally legalized it by allowing doctors to prescribe it online which combined with corruption means anyone who wants it can get it but it’s not so obvious unless you’re interested. It’s a surprisingly OK compromise.