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Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots

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Friday, January 12, 2018 3:14 PM (permalink)
 
Intel's firmware, which is delivered by hardware OEMs, is causing higher system reboots on systems with older Broadwell and Haswell CPUs.
 
ZDNet By Liam Tung | January 12, 2018 -- 11:53 GMT (03:53 PST) | Topic: Security

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 3:28 PM (permalink)
    What a mess.
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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 3:30 PM (permalink)
    Intel hire Microsoft to make the patch ?

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 3:51 PM (permalink)
    Cool GTX
    Intel hire Microsoft to make the patch ?


    One that installs every other day and requires a reboot

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 5:02 PM (permalink)
    Cool GTX
    Intel hire Microsoft to make the patch ?




    You laugh at your own jokes?
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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 5:05 PM (permalink)
    = Humor in my book
     
    = laughing IMO

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 5:11 PM (permalink)
    Cool GTX
    = Humor in my book

     
    = ROTFLMAO, no?



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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 10:45 PM (permalink)
    panzlock
    You laugh at your own jokes?


    No I am sticking my tongue out at Microspoof.
     
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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Friday, January 12, 2018 10:49 PM (permalink)
    Sajin
    What a mess.


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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:55 AM (permalink)
    Man.
    the tech world is just crazy nowadays.
    What the hell.

    Nothing is safe after all.

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Saturday, January 13, 2018 12:00 AM (permalink)
    Intel is stepping on it's own toes at this point!  Can't believe the mess...

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Saturday, January 13, 2018 6:59 PM (permalink)
    PietroBR
    Man.
    the tech world is just crazy nowadays.
    What the hell.

    Nothing is safe after all.


    Some could say it is because Our World was Built by Criminals.
     

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Sunday, January 14, 2018 4:44 PM (permalink)
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    Man.
    the tech world is just crazy nowadays.
    What the hell.

    Nothing is safe after all.


    Some could say it is because Our World was Built by Criminals.
     
     
    I'm beging to believe that myself. Here is another article.


     
    https://www.yahoo.com/new...spectre-221114762.html
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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Sunday, January 14, 2018 4:49 PM (permalink)
    Sorry bcavaugh, I accidentally hit the quote twice putting my quote in your box.
     
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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:26 PM (permalink)
    We get lots of Double Posts on the Forum no big deal.

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Monday, January 29, 2018 2:10 PM (permalink)
    Get the fix via out of band patch - not yet on Windows Update (fixing reboots). "Update to Disable Mitigation against Spectre, Variant 2"

    Information
    https://support.microsoft...inst-spectre-variant-2

    Patch
    https://www.catalog.updat...earch.aspx?q=KB4078130

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    Re: Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots Monday, January 29, 2018 2:30 PM (permalink)
    Nice.
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