The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fact ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Streaming apps that once opened instantly can start to crawl, buffer, or even crash as your TV fills up with temporary data. Clearing that hidden clutter is often the fastest way to make Netflix, ...