Google researchers reveal potential hacking vulnerability due to electricity leak

As more and more transistors are crammed onto memory chips as time goes on, scientists have been increasingly concerned that this could cause electricity to 'leak' out and have harmful consequences for neighboring semiconductors.

Well, a team of researchers from Google's Project Zero may have shown that this is not only a problem, but that it could  potentially be manipulated by hackers to corrupt memory or even bypass security.

Scary stuff.

 

Microsoft reveals new open server design that includes lithium-ion batteries

Microsoft has been a part of the Open Compute Project (a group of large companies who share and standardize the designs of their cloud servers to reduce costs) since 2014. 

This month, they released a new design that replaces traditional lead batteries with power-tool grade lithium-ion ones as reserve power for the servers used in their data centers.

This dramatically increases performance and scalability, while reducing the data center's overall footprint. 

Read more here.

A sincere RIP to Leonard Nimoy

Lastly this month, some sad news - respected actor and beloved Vulcan, Leonard Nimoy, passed away this month at the age of 83.

As massive Star Trek fans here at BackupAssist, we sincerely mourn the loss of Mr. Spock.  But nobody can say he didn't live long and prosper.

RIP Mr Nimoy.