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Kernel panic! What are Meltdown and Spectre, the bugs affecting nearly every computer and device?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/03/k...s-affecting-nearly-every-computer-and-device/
Security researchers released official documentation — complete with nicknames and logos — of two major flaws found in nearly all modern central processing units, or CPUs.
It’s not a physical problem with the CPUs themselves, or a plain software bug you might find in an application like Word or Chrome. It’s in between, at the level of the processors’ “architectures,” the way all the millions of transistors and logic units work together to carry out instructions.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/03/k...s-affecting-nearly-every-computer-and-device/