Also known as the L1 Terminal Fault, this flaw is the latest round of attacks stemming from exploitation of speculative execution.

U.S. senators expressed concern that shortcomings in the industry-led process for disclosing software and hardware bugs could rear their head again.

The discovery is the latest twist in a monthslong saga around the disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre.

The company disputes the claims and says it is fighting all the lawsuits "vigorously."

Social media is filled with reports of problems and time lost to the buggy patches.

The "easily exploitable" vulnerabilities allow a hacker to stage a "virtual machine escape" to attack the host operating system.