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In web design (or more generally: user-interface design) you will often hear the terms “content” and “presentation.” These terms are useful devices for classifying the stuff that shows up on a web page when we browse to a URL, or on an application’s user interface. Content is the stuff you want to see, whether it [...]

A prof by the name of Colin Percival of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia has published a 12-page paper (PDF here) that shows how simultaneous execution of threads in the Intel Pentium hyperthreading model can lead to compromised security. If you can stomach wading through the details, it makes for a fascinating journey through [...]