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Thursday January 4, 2018

Critical chip flaw affects Intel, AMD and ARM

By Ry Crozier

Google reveals research role, origins of vulnerability.

Google's Project Zero researchers have broken an agreed embargo to lay bare details of a serious CPU vulnerability affecting multiple chipmakers' products and the devices and operating systems running on them.

The early disclosure - the first confirmed details of the security issue - came as speculation heightened of a massive CPU hardware bug that was initially thought to only affect Intel products.

It has now become clear that chips from AMD and ARM are also affected, albeit to varying degrees.

Google today revealed that Project Zero researcher Jann...

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