
4 Jan
2018
4 Jan
'18
5:39 a.m.
Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-sold-a-lot-of-stoc...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
Lev just tweeted the above links. This is annoying, it means rebooting all systems with Intel CPUs for which security is important and also ongoing performance loss for all modern systems with Intel CPUs.
Well it seems Intel has been very naughty https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intels_spin_the_registers_annotatio... But then again perhaps, "every-modern processor has-unfixable security flaws" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-pr... regards Rohan McLeod