The Pentagon's R&D wing has contracted Tortuga Logic to develop hardware security tools that use commercial testing platforms to catch vulnerabilities in computer chips.

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

A small company is reporting major vulnerabilities in AMD chips, yet the disclosure itself has sent security researchers into a frenzy.

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.