Cybercriminals are creaming their jorts at the potential exploits this might open up.
Oof. But yeah. Fair.
I want to go on record that sometimes I just wear sandals with socks.
Hur Hur Hur… PPU
Haha okay
Edit: after a skim and a quick Google, this basically looks like a packaging up of existing modern processor features (sorta AVX/SVE with a load of speculative execution thrown on top)
Others have already laughed at this idea, but on a similar topic:
I know we’ve basically disabled a lot of features that sped up the CPU but introduced security flaws. Is there a way to turn those features back on for an airgapped computer intentionally?
The kernel option is mitigations=off, if you want to try adding it to your Grub command line? From the testing I’ve done, provides no benefits whatsoever - no more frames in games, compilation runs no quicker, battery life on a laptop is no better.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Turn_off_CPU_exploit_mitigations
Haven’t used it in years, but it might still work:
