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July 24, 2023

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (July 24, 2023)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for July 24, 2023 :</p>

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Zenbleed

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html

Summary: A vulnerability (CVE-2023-20593) affecting all Zen 2 class processors has been discovered, allowing attackers to spy on operations like strlen, memcpy, and strcmp across virtual machines, sandboxes, containers, and processes. The exploit can leak about 30 kb per core per second, enabling monitoring of encryption keys and passwords. AMD has released a microcode update for affected processors, and users are advised to update their BIOS or Operating System.

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Driver.js: Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more

https://driverjs.com/

Summary: Driver.js is a versatile tool offering product tours, highlights, and contextual help. It features an extensive API for various use cases, such as onboarding users, removing distractions, providing contextual help, and promoting feature adoption. With millions of downloads, the MIT-licensed open-source project is widely used and has 16K GitHub stars.

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