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The software development platform GitHub has been the target of censorship from governments using methods ranging from local Internet service provider blocks, intermediary blocking using methods such as DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks, and denial-of-service attacks on its servers from countries including China, India, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey.
The starting point of the white paper is that of a side-channel timing attack [58] applied to the branch prediction machinery of modern microprocessors with speculative execution. While at the architectural level documented in processor data books, any results of misprediction are specified to be discarded after the fact, the resulting ...
Windows 3.1 with enhanced networking; designed to work particularly well as a client with the new Windows NT. [4] [5] Snowball — Windows for Workgroups 3.11: An updated version of Windows for Workgroups 3.1, which introduces 32-bit file access and network improvements. It also removes the Standard Mode, effectively dropping support for 16-bit ...
In July 2024, UC San Diego researchers revealed the Indirector attack against Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs leveraging high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI). [86] [87] [88] Intel downplayed the severity of the vulnerability and claimed the existing mitigations are enough to tackle the issue. [89] No CVE was assigned.
Some tools such as GitHub and GitLab create a default branch named main instead. [114] [115] Also, users can add and delete branches and choose any branch for integrating. Pushed commits generally are not overwritten, but are reverted [116] by committing another change which reverses an earlier commit. This prevents shared commits from being ...
The users of the version control system can branch any branch. Branches are also known as trees, streams or codelines. The originating branch is sometimes called the parent branch, the upstream branch (or simply upstream, especially if the branches are maintained by different organizations or individuals), or the backing stream.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. [2] Founded in 1975, the company became highly influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields.
[12] [44] [75] [76] [77] These users included U.S. government customers in the executive branch, the military, and the intelligence services (see Impact section, below). [ 9 ] [ 78 ] If a user installed the update, this would execute the malware payload, which would stay dormant for 12–14 days before attempting to communicate with one or more ...