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"the boffins at Google have discovered a way to craft their own microcode that is accepted by AMD [...] works on all Zen-based AMD chips [...]"!!!"a proof-of-concept microcode update [...] forces a chip's read random (RDRAND) instruction to always output the value 4"
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