Phantom Spectre, Agency Prediction Branch

COALESCING fragments

Of a notable computer architecture vulnerability,  preceded by a few tangentially related media entries.

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Then there is something spooky about how this relates to the Meltdown and Spectre exploits in ARM, Intel and AMD CPUs… [forthcoming]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)

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

Syzygy

Painting of temporal model, first photographed during solar eclipse, then ran through a convolutional neural-network with max-pool target.