TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented vulnerabilities in the CPU. For the rest (simplified), Modern computational security relies on maintaining the sanctum of memory, i.e keeping secure memory (say your passwords) out of access from user process (the meme website). The guard duty for this falls on CPU’s working in tandem with the OS. Recent security vulnerabilities in the CPU (>1995) has been disclosed which allows an attacker to breach...
