Intel says upcoming chips will include fixes for Spectre and Meltdown

Earlier this year, the tech world was rocked when teams of security researchers, acting independently of each other, unearthed two chip vulnerabilities which essentially impacted every single Intel processor released over the last decade. The vulnerabilities were dubbed Spectre and Meltdown, and provided malicious actors with avenues to access sensitive data -- such as usernames and passwords -- even if stored in protected memory. Adding another layer of embarrassment to the matter, Intel shortl...