meltdown
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Newly Discovered Apple M1 Security Flaw is Unpatchable
Apple’s blisteringly fast and remarkably efficient M1 chips have been the catalysts behind a recent MacBook resurgence, but MIT security researchers have found a chink in their armour.
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Upcoming Windows 10 Update Will Boost Performance Of Spectre V2 Fix
OK, so Spectre — and its associated vulnerability Meltdown — were identified and some aspects of dealt with by CPU microcode and OS patches. Unfortunately, in the case of Spectre, these fixes resulted in a loss of system performance. The good news is for Windows 10 users, an upcoming update will reduce the impact to…
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The Only Chips Intel’s Refusing To Patch Are Ancient
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which leave every single Intel CPU made in the last 10 years open to attack, have been, for the most part, patched. But according to a new Intel document, a handful of processor types will never be patched for Spectre Variant 2, the vulnerability that affects nearly all modern CPUs…
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The Latest Chrome OS Update Includes Another Patch To Combat Meltdown
In the wake of Spectre and Meltdown, every major computing company is scrambling to try to find a way to fix, or at least address, the widespread security vulnerabilities at hand. And while things haven’t been going great over in the Microsoft camp after the company had to pull its latest security patch, today Google…