Non-Gaming News

This is a PSA: Google’s Project Zero announced a string of severe hardware bugs in just about any major mainstream CPU for the past 25 years. The net impact, as far as I can see, is that no shared computer should be considered ‘private.’ That specifically means instances on services like Amazon EC2, Azure, Google Compute, Rackspace, Linode, etc. I suspect a lot of popular cloud-based applications use such instances. Currently, the fallout from this is unclear, but I personally would not trust anything on a shared computer to be ‘private’ at this point.

In non-technical terms: If you have any personal data stored on a cloud service, now is a good time to ensure your backups are up to date and pull the data off, unless you mean to share it.