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    1 year ago

    A side channel vulnerability in some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction.

    influence the return address prediction

    agony-shivering

    What a good, safe, and healthy way the computer monopoly have decided on to speed up our fundamentally slow and sequential computer architectures. agony-wholesome

    porky-scared-flipped What? Do other things than selling faster PCs? That’s for the universities. If they come up with something backwards-compatible with the last decade of freeze-gamer treats freeze-gamer and the last 2 decades of porky-happy business-enterprise software solutions porky-happy we would be happy to sell it for them!

    Maybe if brandon sends us 1 trillion dollars in free money we can only spend 999 billion on stock buybacks and the rest on research.