Apple to patch SLAP and FLOP web browser vulnerabilities

Apple plans to patch two new speculative execution attacks, SLAP and FLOP, that impact recent Apple chips, according to data shared today by Georgia Tech students who discovered the vulnerabilities.

Several Apple A-series and M-series chips are affected, including the A15 and later and the M2 and later, which are found in the following:

• 2022 and later M…