Side channel attacks are as old as computing, and the specific CPU variants exploiting speculative execution have not simply occurred on 2018 hardware and stopped since; pretty much all CPU architecture is susceptible to some form of speculative execution exploit, Apple simply is not an exception to the rule, and I think it’s unfair to call them out as somehow incompetent for making the same mistake as literally everyone

https://www.vusec.net/projects/ghostrace/

We can laugh all we want but this issue was present on x86 hardware first

https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/new-research-reveals-spectre.html?m=1

You do realize this kind of attack first appeared on x86 hardware, right?

https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/new-research-reveals-spectre.html?m=1