{"slug": "spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines", "title": "Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines", "summary": "The Spectre vulnerability has resurfaced in a new form targeting JIT engines, according to a report from The Register. The story appears in the publication's AI and Infosec sections, which also cover Huawei's claim that homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China and a new self-replicating prompt injection attack described as an AI-style worm.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wienersJust ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.\n- \n#### Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in ChinaThe chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says\n- \n#### Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injectionsIt's a worm attack, AI-style\n- \n#### Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputationNew business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai\n- \n#### AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrifiedRegular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user\n- \n#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines/5299937", "published_at": "2026-09-30 07:01:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-30 21:18:04.057561+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["The Register", "Spectre", "Huawei", "Nvidia", "Eric Xu", "Meta", "AMD", "Microsoft"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spectre-bug-is-back-this-time-to-haunt-jit-engines.jsonld"}}