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Intel hasn’t stepped back on their efforts to show how concerned they’re for the people affected by the critical Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities disclosed ahead of schedule. The first lot of security patches released by Intel ended up rebooting people’s machines. Later, the world’s second largest chip maker had to advise users to refrain from […]
Fixing the chip security holes Meltdown and Spectre will take a long, long time, but Linus Torvalds and Intel developers are slowly moving to answers for Linux. Spectre and Meltdown are major design flaws in modern CPUs. While they’re present in almost all recent processors, because Intel chips are so widely used, Intel is taking […]
On Thursday, AMD unzipped their lips more on the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre bugs. While the company has stuck to their claims that their processors are at near-zero risk from Meltdown, the chips are not immune to Spectre bugs. AMD’s stocks fell by around 2% in the after-hours post the announcement. According to a blog […]