In today’s “agentic” world, everyone seems to have forgotten approximately everything we used to know about security. And this new CPU is going all in on value speculation. Delightful.

Maybe if “cyber” models get good enough at exploiting speculation attacks, people will start demanding equipment that is less prone to these attacks.

Attacker: I can run any code on this machine? Time for speculation attacks!

Attacker: Oh wait, I can run any code? I already own the machine...