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Re:Google researchers discover 'Reptar', a new CPU vulnerabi... by mgaunard on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:37PM (#38269367)
have you never heard of continuous integration?
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Re:Google researchers discover 'Reptar', a new CPU vulnerabi... by boneitis on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:19PM (#38269949)
Rather, it looks to be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_pipelining

From the Zenbleed link in sibling:

> I found this bug by fuzzing, big surprise [..] In fact, vendors fuzz their own products extensively - the industry term for it is Post-Silicon Validation.

That is, "a pipeline to validate the pipeline".

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