Nuno Santos

Confidential VMs Explained: An Empirical Analysis of AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX

2024 · Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems

Confidential computing is gaining traction in the cloud, driven by the increasing security and privacy concerns across various industries. Recent trusted hardware advancements introduce Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) to alleviate the programmability and usability challenges …

Epistemological Infrastructure Capture: Artificial Intelligence, Invisible Synchronization, and the Algorithmic Gestell

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

This article introduces "Epistemological Infrastructure Capture" as a central concept to analyze how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems increasingly mediate the infrastructures through which relevance, legitimacy, and intelligibility are socially organized. This essay argues that under …