Intel has apparently given AMD a substantial performance advantage, retroactively... can't wait to see what the details are on this one! https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ …
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Replying to @TinyConstruct
You can read the SPECTRE paper here: https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf I'm not a security person, so you'd have to ask a pro, but my cursory read was that it's not nearly as "bad" - it's more of a sandbox-escaping exploit than a read-protected-memory exploit...
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Replying to @cmuratori @TinyConstruct
... but I suppose these days since "browser security" is a primary concern, reading outside a sandbox is a pretty big deal :/
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