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

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

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 treats and the last 2 decades of business-enterprise software solutions we would be happy to sell it for them!

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