“It’s like a stutter,” Leo said over the emergency bridge, his face pale on her screen. “The CPUs are asking for random numbers, getting predictable garbage, and recalculating. The update broke the random number generator on Pluton chips.”
“No,” Maya said. “They just forgot that x64 architecture still respects raw SMI handlers.” “It’s like a stutter,” Leo said over the
Maya wasn’t convinced. The update’s size was wrong—489 megabytes, far too large for a routine security rollup. Buried in the release notes, under ‘Known Issues,’ was a single, chilling line: “After installing this update, systems with TPM 2.0 and Pluton security processors may exhibit unexpected behavior related to entropy collection.” “It’s like a stutter
