https://www.newscientist.com/article/2157883-how-to-protect-yourself-from-the-meltdown-and-spectre-bugs/ > The bugs are called Meltdown and Spectre, and they exploit a process called “speculative execution”. This step allows a processor to predict what tasks it will have to execute and fetch the data that it will need ahead of time, speeding up tasks on your computer. > This can leave ostensibly secure data unprotected and allow programs to access the computer’s kernel, which has control over the whole system, without the