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Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades (www.engadget.com)

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Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.

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[-] DrDominate@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Unless I'm mistaken, the malware isn't on the CPU. The exploit is CPU, but the firmware is stored on the bios chip. Used motherboards are a potential for having malware on them, but then again they always have been a risk

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