· about 16 hours ago· Dev.to
Spectre and Meltdown: CPU Vulnerabilities Expose Sensitive Data Through Prediction
For decades, processor designers chased speed by letting the CPU run ahead of itself — executing instructions before it was certain they were needed, then quietly throwing away the work if it guessed wrong. In January 2018, researchers showed that the discarded work leaves a fingerprint, and that fi
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