A security researcher designed a way to "weaponize" microcode updates to install ransomware directly onto the CPU. Rapid7 ...

From a more low-level programming perspective as inspired by C code and kin, the use of directly shared resources makes more sense, and can be argued to have performance benefits. This contrasts ...

as you'd have to manage a lot more low-level details. Another downside is portability. Assembly code is typically specific to a particular processor architecture, so you usually can't take code ...