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A roundup of VLSI conference 2025, including the use of digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process vs. TSMC, and more (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/21/vlsi2025/

Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not), China’s FlipFET, Digital Twins from Atoms to Fabs, and More
Long time readers will recall that SemiAnalysis covers more than just datacenters and AMD. Today we’re back to semiconductors with a tech-focused roundup of the best from this year’s VLSI conferenc…

A Practical Guideline and Taxonomy to LLVM's Control Flow Integrity
Sabine Houy, Bruno Kreyssig, Timothee Riom, Alexandre Bartel, Patrick McDaniel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15386

A Practical Guideline and Taxonomy to LLVM's Control Flow Integrity
Memory corruption vulnerabilities remain one of the most severe threats to software security. They often allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by redirecting a vulnerable program's control flow. While Control Flow Integrity (CFI) has gained traction to mitigate this exploitation path, developers are not provided with any direction on how to apply CFI to real-world software. In this work, we establish a taxonomy mapping LLVM's forward-edge CFI variants to memory corruption vulnerab…

In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fidji-simo-note-employees/

OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff
Ex-Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.

A Taxonomy and Methodology for Proof-of-Location Systems
Eduardo Brito, Fernando Castillo, Liina Kamm, Amnir Hadachi, Ulrich Norbisrath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14230 https://…

A Taxonomy and Methodology for Proof-of-Location Systems
Digital societies increasingly rely on trustworthy proofs of physical presence for services such as supply-chain tracking, e-voting, ride-sharing, and location-based rewards. Yet, traditional localization methods often lack cryptographic guarantees of where and when an entity was present, leaving them vulnerable to spoofing, replay, or collusion attacks. In response, research on Proof-of-Location (PoL) has emerged, with recent approaches combining distance bounding, distributed consensus, and p…

Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (Washington Post)

China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say
Researchers say Chinese actors, along with other criminal hackers, exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses.

Sources: Take-Two lays off 80 staff at BioShock studio Cloud Chamber, or ~33% of its 250 staff, and delays the next BioShock game to late 2026 or early 2027 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting" the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Australia orders Binance Australia to hire an external auditor within 28 days over "serious concerns" with money laundering and terrorism financing controls (Richard Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Music Group Increasing Efforts on Music AI Patents
UMG said it's filed for 15 patents through the partnership already, including one related to AI threat protection.