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Not really, they are mentioned in the article. What is fascinating is the number of discoveries by the Google team. The Wikipedia page has a summary of the prominent ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Zero_(Google) these are not bugs in obscure pieces of software but on major services and operating systems.

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Come on, Google completely "forgets" to mention the others, whilst the others do mention Google who detected it independently. And then look who wrote the papers, exploits and patches.

> Come on, Google completely "forgets" to mention the others

Err… fourth paragraph:

> Before the issues described here were publicly disclosed, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Yuval Yarom, Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Michael Schwarz, Mike Hamburg, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher and Werner Haas also reported them; their [writeups/blogposts/paper drafts] are at: Spectre (variants 1 and 2) Meltdown (variant 3)

Yuval Yarom's contribution (Flush+Reload) seems quite understated, considering how important it is to the attack.

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