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🌖🕑 5 yr via NewsBot
Intel CPUs impacted by new Zombieload side-channel attack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-cpus-impacted-by-new-zombieload-side-channel-attack/
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🌖🕑 5 yr via Texnut
Huh. New Intel CPU attacks and Linux Mint has new Intel microcode for me.
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🌔🕙 5 yr via Arachis
@33MHz I’m seriously wondering if speculative execution was just a mistake categorically. Is the performance gain really worth the loss in clarity/predictability/safety/& can? It’s increasingly seeming like not.
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🌔🕤 5 yr via Texnut
@anth I'm thinking the same. Surely there are other optimizations that could be made if it weren't speculating, too.
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