Assorted links for Wednesday, August 7:

1. US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year
2. Securely design your applications and protect your sensitive data with VBS enclaves

   Virtualization Based Security (VBS) is the core feature of Windows used to the high value secrets stored within Windows (e.g., Credential Guard). VBS utilizes the Hyper-V hypervisor to create an environment that is higher privileged than the rest of the system kernel. Like VM isolation, the hypervisor sets memory protections in the second level address tables and IOMMU tables to isolate this environment from the rest of the system kernel.

3. Apple signs on to Biden’s responsible AI guidelines

   Apple now joins 15 other major tech companies, including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, in committing to responsible AI development and rollout.

4. N3199: Improved __attribute__((cleanup)) Through defer: A proposal for a defer keyword in C. See also defer reference implementation for C.
5. The C++ Object Lifecycle