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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Wednesday, May 15th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Intel has revealed a vulnerability that could let hackers steal data.

U.S. stocks recover after a series of tweets from President Donald Trump.

Then we take a look at a different U.S. trade issue, this one south of the border.

And Theresa May puts pressure on Jeremy Corbin to make a decision regarding her Brexit plan.

Plus the F.T.'s Buenos Aires correspondent, Benedict Mander, tells us how the IMF's 56 billion dollar bailout is playing out in Argentina.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Chipmaker Intel says there is a vulnerability in its chips that could let hackers steal data.

The weakness is known as zombie load, and it has existed in all Intel chips, made since 2011.

Intel says its latest microprocessors had been fixed at the hardware level to prevent the problems.

But older chips will need an update to their microcode, as well as updates to the operating systems running on them.

Fixing the zombie load problem could slow down some computer systems.

Apple is one of several companies that put out a software update yesterday

and said the fix may reduce performance by up to 40%.

Intel downplayed the issue saying exploiting it would be quote

extremely complex relative to other methods unquote. But experts say that while the flaw is hard to exploit, it's

also hard to fix. They also warned that zombie load could be a risk to cloud data centers.

Data centers that businesses and governments now rely on to handle part of their computing needs.

The revelation comes just a little bit more than a year after Intel disclosed two other chip vulnerabilities known as Specter and

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