By Bill Horne
As if Meltdown, Spectre and Foreshadow were not enough, recently a new critical vulnerability called ZombieLoad has been discovered that affects a series of modern Intel processors. This vulnerability enables a potential attacker to read small pieces of information from various programs running on the same computer, taking advantage of a special feature of the Intel chip called speculative execution.
By Wang Chen
Ant Forest turns an Alipay user’s environmentally friendly actions into “green energy”, which they can then use to plant and nurture a virtual tree. When the tree reaches a certain size, Alipay will plant a real one. In September, Ant Forest won two United Nations awards for scaling up climate action. “Ant Forest uses technology to link people and the environment, enabling everyone to participate in action to save the planet, and that has a huge impact,” said Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme.
