Remember those serious Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws (fave.co/3Za1Kdd) from five years ago? Well, Intel’s in hot water again with another serious vulnerability that affects years worth of processors. Known as ‘Downfall’, the vulnerability exploits a flaw in the AVX vector extensions of every Intel CPU from the Skylake generation onward until we get to the more recent 12th-gen Alder Lake processors.
Macs with these processors started appearing in late 2015 with the 21.5-inch iMac, and just about every Intel-based Mac – desktop or
