Post 9whB8hAEb0FT9E9IMi by rockario@kind.social
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 (DIR) Post #9whB8gSzBneaz5ukxE by BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com
       2020-07-01T09:34:55Z
       
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       the branch predictor is an important piece of hardware on modern CPUs that tries to determine whether a tree is going to happen
       
 (DIR) Post #9whB8gpfpRnm7SWsJk by BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com
       2020-07-01T09:37:32Z
       
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       SPECTRE is a vulnerability that occurs when the CPU detects a ghost tree instead of a real one
       
 (DIR) Post #9whB8hAEb0FT9E9IMi by rockario@kind.social
       2020-07-01T09:42:33Z
       
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       @BestGirlGrace As opposed to the DRM feature that prevents unauthorized playing of James Bond movies
       
 (DIR) Post #9whB8hv1n1g9UM2fIm by BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com
       2020-07-01T09:43:07Z
       
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       @rockario "Funny, Mr. Bond, I thought you'd die in the MELTDOWN."
       
 (DIR) Post #9whB8ihwr8oJw4vjYO by rockario@kind.social
       2020-07-01T09:44:34Z
       
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       @BestGirlGrace I don't know what that is, but by context I assume it is another CPU vulnerability
       
 (DIR) Post #9whB8j3vXQOL2FDHoO by BestGirlGrace@social.illegalpornography.com
       2020-07-01T09:45:19Z
       
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       @rockario yeah, Specter and Meltdown happened at the same time and often get bundled together. I think they're both similar kinds of speculative execution exploits.
       
 (DIR) Post #9whB8jcfSGBGlzT1xg by 361.xj9@social.sunshinegardens.org
       2020-07-03T02:51:38.542716Z
       
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       @BestGirlGrace @rockario meltdown is the much worse Intel variant of the same class of vulnerability