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Plus: Micro-op CPU caches abused to leak data, and more Share Copy In Brief Apple on Monday patched security flaws in its software said to have been exploited in the wild by miscreants to hijack gear. WebKit, fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, can be tricked into executing arbitrary code by processing malicious web content – a bad webpage can take over the browser, in other words. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited," it said in its advisory. Speci...

Intel, Researchers Debate Whether New Spectre-Type Vulnerabilities Exist Intel, Researchers Debate Whether New Spectre-Type Vulnerabilities Exist By Joel Hruska on May 4, 2021 at 4:23 pm This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Over the past three days, reports of new Spectre-class attacks emerged that supposedly break all previous speculative execution patches and require performance-crippling mitigation techniques. There’s just on...

2022 Snapdragon chipset aimed at high-performance ultraportables Matthew Hughes Tue 16 Mar 2021 // 15:50 UTC Share Copy Qualcomm said today that its new internally designed CPUs are expected to sample in the second half of 2022 as it completed the purchase of chip designer Nuvia. Bought for $1.4bn, the Arm data-centre chip design business launched in 2019 and swiftly raised a $53m Series A round from a bevy of investors that included Dell Technologies Capital and Mayfiel...