Building Secure Foundations: Taming Microarchitectural Defense Conflicts

As defenses against side-channel and speculative attacks grow more complex, ensuring their seamless integration is critical to maintaining system security.

As defenses against side-channel and speculative attacks grow more complex, ensuring their seamless integration is critical to maintaining system security.

Many classic horror games are now difficult or impossible to play, due to outdated controls, limited availability on modern platforms, or complete removal from sale. Even so, they can still be enjoyable, particularly for players who appreciate a retro horror experience. Beyond the gameplay itself, it’s undeniable that these games had a significant impact on the genre and left a lasting legacy that extends far beyond their initial popularity.

The upcoming Blade game faces a tricky situation. Marvel intended to reintroduce Blade to a modern audience through its cinematic universe, placing him alongside current heroes and villains. Without that connection, the game risks feeling disconnected, as the character hasn’t been prominently featured since the early 2000s movies. This is a double-edged sword: the game could become the defining version of Blade for a long time, meaning its success is crucial for the character’s future and overall relevance.

Gaming is set for a major transformation in 2026, and many players might be surprised by what’s coming. From the launch of exciting new games to the introduction of innovative technology, the next year will fundamentally change the gaming landscape.

Just a couple weeks into 2026, Pokemon GO is off to a strong start with new content! The game began the year with its Pinch Perfect event, introducing the Gen 9 Pokemon Klawf and the first-ever Shiny Dhelmise. Scopely has announced another new Shiny Pokemon – Shiny Fidough – will appear later in January as part of the Precious Pals event, starting on January 20th. Now, Pokemon fans are getting a preview of one of February’s major events.

Glowcaps grow exclusively in underground caves. These caves only become accessible right after a heatwave destroys most life on the planet’s surface.

To make your base core stronger, go up to it and press the ‘E’ key to open the upgrade menu. This will show you what materials you need. For instance, upgrading to level 2 requires certain items, such as:
![Memory capacity benchmarks reveal that the Memory-Hierarchical Network (MHN) maintains perfect recall up to a pattern density of [latex]P=N[/latex], significantly exceeding the performance of the Phasor-graph memory-which falls below 95% recall near the classical Hopfield bound of [latex]0.138N[/latex]-and demonstrating a substantial advantage over the Echo State Network, which rapidly degrades in associative recall performance due to its architectural limitations.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.04362v1/x8.png)
A new approach to reinforcement learning uses the principles of brain rhythms and sleep-like stages to enable agents to learn complex tasks and improve generalization.

Since its launch, ARC Raiders, like many popular online games, has dealt with players cheating. Over time, a lot of this cheating has been linked to paid programs sold online that give players unfair advantages. Sometimes, though, cheating happens by accident, and players quickly exploit the situation. Recently, this happened when players discovered and misused some settings related to field of view.

These games aren’t as massive as open-world titles, but they still offer players plenty of choices and a surprising amount of freedom. This can range from how you talk to characters to building and managing your own town. If you’re looking for a focused adventure with a lot of depth, these games are definitely worth exploring.