Intel will NOT be patching all of its flawed chips After saying, for months, that it would release firmware updates to all chipsets produced in the last 5 years, Intel is now backtracking saying that it won’t produce patches for the Bloomfield line, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, Penryn, SoFIA 3GR, the Wolfdale line, and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tech Crunch is reporting that Intel told customers about the Meltdown and Spectre flaws before the public announcement, but they did not tell the U.S. Government about it. Most of the time, it is the other way around. The U.S. Government knows about a flaw but doesn’t tell the company who can do something about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Google’s Project Zero released information about the flaw and attacks as reports and speculation escalated (see here). Reporters, including this one, are just learning the details of this. An FAQ about the attack, which says that it affects Intel, AMD and ARM processors is available here. It does, they say, affect every microprocessor […]
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