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Deep & Emerging Tech·September 7, 2026·1 min read

Another Rowhammer attack has been detected, and Nvidia workstation GPUs are firmly in the firing line

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GPUThor showing Rowhammer-style attacks bypassing ECC on Nvidia workstation GPUs means AI and HPC hardware is now a live security surface, not just a performance asset. If you’re running sensitive workloads on shared or untrusted GPU infrastructure, pull your security team into hardware selection and isolation decisions this quarter.

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