You always knew this was coming twitter.com/_markel___/status/1373059797155778562

the very fact that Intel can ship microcode updates out to installed CPUs implied the existence of these instructions

so you're saying malware can brick Intel CPUs now?

yep

but I suppose bricking would be the least interesting possibility. better would be rewriting the microcode of a specific instruction, to embed malware

imagine rewriting the MOVSB instruction to execute a RandomX hash

total miners: 81025

minexmr.com: 32.3

xnbya, your pools goin DOWN!! RRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

1 CPU 1 VOTE Wooooo