Slowdowns expected as computer industry races to fix security flaws

Your laptop could soon be running noticeably slower, an Australian security expert says, as the world's computer industry scrambles to counteract two major flaws just discovered in the design of almost all of the world's processors.

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Security researchers have disclosed a pair of security flaws, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, that they say could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device, from smartphones and laptops to the machines that power the internet.

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Slowdowns expected as computer industry races to fix security flaws

Slowdowns expected as computer industry races to fix security flaws

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