Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, May 15th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today there's a new major chip flaw called

a zombie load. The major tech companies sign on to the so-called

Christchurch Call to Action.

San Francisco Band's facial recognition tech. Is Google

effectively deprecating search and did Beyonce make 300 million dollars on the Uber IPO?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well, once again, the Silicon ain't safe. Security researchers have found a new side channel flaw called zombie load that affects nearly all post

2011 Intel chips. Yes, this is a hardware flaw reminiscent of the meltdown and specter vulnerabilities which exploited speculative

execution in modern processors, but with a new twist, quoting Tech Crunch. Zombe load takes its name from a zombie load

an amount of data that the processor can't understand or properly process

forcing the processor to ask for help

from the processor's microcode to prevent a crash.

Apps are usually only able to see their own data, but this bug allows that data to bleed across those boundary walls.

zombie load will leak any data currently loaded. data to bleed across those boundary walls.

zombie load will leak any data currently loaded by the processor's core, the

researcher said.

Intel said patches to the microcode will help clear the processor's buffers preventing data from being read.

Practically, the researchers showed in a proof of concept video

that the flaws could be exploited to see which websites a person is visiting in real time but could easily be repurposed to grab

passwords or access tokens used to log in to a victim's online accounts. Like Meltdown and Specter, it's not just PCs and laptops affected by

zombie load. The cloud is also vulnerable.

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