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Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A huge bug found in the fundamental architecture of computers could require them to be entirely re-designed. The bug – which is actually two separate vulnerabilities – was found by Google researchers who say that the problem affects some of the most fundamental parts of how computers work. It is not even clear how the re-design could actually happen to remove Spectre, according to researchers, since there's no known fix for the problem. Though the flaw was only just revealed, security researchers have been secretly working to patch it for months – meaning that most consumer systems have actually already received patches for Meltdown.

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