Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Tech

Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today's Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel…

We haven't written up this one. Phoronix has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at phoronix.com →

More in Tech

Google Cloud Storage has the same problem as S3: Standard forever

GCP Cloud Storage has the same problem S3 has Everything goes into Standard class. It's the default. It's what people know.

  • Google Cloud Storage stores all data in Standard class by default
  • Standard class is most expensive for infrequently accessed data
  • Object Lifecycle Management and Autoclass reduce storage costs

More from Sunday 11 October →