Microsoft Offers Payouts for New Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

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Speculative execution refers to a CPU optimization technique that's widely used in modern processors. But the functionality, which is physically built into processors, can be targeted via a trio of "side-channel attacks" to trigger information leaks. Millions of processors built by Intel, AMD and ARM are ...

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