This week, Intel patched a CPU security bug that hasn’t attracted a funky name, even though the bug itself is admittedly pretty funky. Known as CVE-2020-0543 for short, or Special Register Buffer Data Sampling in its full title, it serves as one more reminder that as we expect processor makers to produce ever-faster chips that can churn through ever more code and data in ever less time… …we sometimes pay a cybersecurity price, at least in theoretical terms.

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