Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Partially Addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2 [Unconfirmed] (macrumors.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday January 4, 2018 @04:00AM from the racing-to-fix-things dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A serious design flaw and security vulnerability discovered in Intel CPUs has reportedly already been partially addressed by Apple in the recent macOS 10.13.2 update, which was released to the public on December 6. According to developer Alex Ionescu, Apple introduced a fix in macOS 10.13.2, with additional tweaks set to be introduced in macOS 10.13.3, currently in beta testing. AppleInsider also says that it has heard from "multiple sources within Apple" that updates made in macOS 10.13.2 have mitigated "most" security concerns associated with the KPTI vulnerability. A Bloomberg reporter pointed out that Apple has not officially commented on the story.

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Re:Oh no. by ceoyoyo · 2018-01-04 04:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

If your AI can't figure out it's way around silly processor errors you've got a problem. Deep learning likes noise. You add extra, on purpose.
Regular algorithms are fragile and usually don't work if the numbers don't add up. But be fair: Intel has had two real bugs that I remember, in the last... forty years? Outside of those two, I doubt anyone has even contemplated the need to patch their processor. Not many projects in the computer business can say that.