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Mark Killick, who was known to his customers as Marc Cole, spent his customers' money on travelling the world in style as well as funding his own gambling habit.

The A12 Londonbound is partially blocked at Junction 25 because of a reported crash.

Kaye Adams has been pictured looking downcast after being suspended from her BBC radio show amid 'bullying' accusations from junior staff members.

An anonymous reader writes: Gboard has introduced some significant changes to the app over the past few weeks, making typing on the app much easier than ever before. You can now resize the keyboard to your desired size, and there's even something in the works that will make adding apostrophes to your text even more seamless. If all of that wasn't enough, the app is now introducing a feature that some will find peculiar, which will allow users to remove the period and common punctuation keys from Gboard. This news comes to us from 9to5Google, sharing that this is now an option with the latest version of the app.

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by George Whittaker Introduction

In the world of modern CPUs, speculative execution, where a processor guesses ahead on branches and executes instructions before the actual code path is confirmed, has long been recognized as a performance booster. However, it has also given rise to a class of vulnerabilities collectively known as “Spectre” attacks, where microarchitectural side states (such as the branch target buffer, caches, or predictor state) are mis-exploited to leak sensitive data.

Now, a new attack variant, dubbed VMScape, exposes a previously under-appreciated weakness: the isolation between a guest virtual machine and its host (or hypervisor) in the branch predictor domain. In simpler terms: a malicious VM can influence the CPU’s branch predictor in such a way that when control returns to the host, secrets in the host or hypervisor can be exposed. This has major implications for cloud security, virtualization environments, and kernel/hypervisor protections.

In this article we’ll walk through how VMScape works, the CPUs and environments it affects, how the Linux kernel and hypervisors are mitigating it, and what users, cloud operators and admins should know (and do).

What VMScape Is & Why It Matters The Basics of Speculative Side-Channels

Speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre exploit the gap between architectural state (what the software sees as completed instructions) and microarchitectural state (what the CPU has done internally, such as cache loads, branch predictor updates, etc). Even when speculative paths are rolled back architecturally, side-effects in the microarchitecture can remain and be probed by attackers.

One of the original variants, Spectre-BTI (Branch Target Injection, also called Spectre v2) leveraged the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) / predictor to redirect speculative execution along attacker-controlled paths. Over time, hardware and software mitigations (IBRS, eIBRS, IBPB, STIBP) have been introduced. But VMScape shows that when virtualization enters the picture, the isolation assumptions break down.

VMScape: Guest to Host via Branch Predictor

VMScape (tracked as CVE‑2025‑40300) is described by researchers from ETH Zürich as “the first Spectre-based end-to-end exploit in which a malicious guest VM can leak arbitrary sensitive information from the host domain/hypervisor, without requiring host code modifications and in default configuration.”

Here are the key elements making VMScape significant:

• The attack is cross-virtualization: a guest VM influences the host’s branch predictor state (not just within the guest).

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RESIDENTS across north and mid Essex would like to see it become a dual carriageway as “it is not fit for purpose”.

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts

America's once-ambitious cyber defences are starting to rust, according to the latest annual report from the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which warns that policy momentum has slowed and even slipped backwards thanks to Trump-era workforce and budget cuts.…

The holidaymaker took the souvenirs from the Timanfaya National Park- a protected area in Lanzarote - several years ago.

ESSEX Police has launched an appeal looking for any information about the whereabouts of Kelly Beall.

British tourists are facing Storm Benjamin chaos in Europe as 100mph winds continue to lash at French coasts and a British Airways flight was forced to abort its landing in Switzerland.

This is the moment a prolific thief hid beneath a bed to avoid his imminent arrest whilst police tracked him down.

Alan, 82, invested £100,000 and received no compensation. He told the podcast how he now 'struggles to make ends meet'.

Jeremy Mogford, 78, appeared via video link at Oxford Crown Court today alongside Sarah Pickering, 71.

Gone are the days of fridge magnet souvenirs - as a quarter admit to packing lightly to leave room for their snack stash.

The seaman and 18 of his loyal men only had the compass, a watch, a quadrant and a week's worth of food and drink following the Mutiny on the Bounty in 1789.

Fujitsu has released a new laptop in Japan with a built-in Blu-ray drive. The FMV Note A A77-K3 includes a BDXL-compatible optical drive that can read and burn discs. Most laptop manufacturers globally stopped including optical drives in the second half of the 2010s. The Japanese market has refused to follow that trend. Shops in Tokyo's Akihabara district recently experienced a spike in demand for optical drives and systems capable of reading Blu-ray discs, Tom's Hardware reports. Fujitsu sells two additional models in the FMV Note A line using Intel thirteenth-generation chips. Those systems include DVD drives instead of Blu-ray capability. Some other Japanese manufacturers also released optical-drive-equipped laptops earlier in 2025.

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The Public Accounts Committee has written to the Crown Estate and the Treasury demanding information about the deal allowing the King's brother live in Royal Lodge in Windsor.

Greater Anglia is offering military personnel and veterans free travel to and from Remembrance Day events in London.

Greater Anglia is offering military personnel and veterans free travel to and from Remembrance Day events in London.