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Intel CPUs are leaking passwords and killing performance | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
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A recently discovered vulnerability that affects lots of Intel CPUs could steal your data, but there's a fix. The downside? It'll cost you performance.

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[–] xilophor@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hasn't this happened before?

[–] bridge_too_close@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, there were similar vulnerabilities found around 5 years ago, known as Meltdown and Spectre.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yes. Meltdown and Spectre (twice) if not others.

The Register's article on the vulnerability contains more information about this, as well as what appears to be an equivalent problem that affects AMD processors.