Microsoft quietly patched a Spectre-style vulnerability in Intel chips that could expose user data

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As with Spectre and Meltdown, the vulnerability takes advantage of speculative execution, a function that anticipates and executes instructions before any commands are received, thereby increasing CPU performance.





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