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Intel Has a New Spectre and Meltdown Firmware Patch For You To Try Out (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: The Spectre/Meltdown debacle continues to rumble on, and now the chip manufacturer has announced the availability of a new 'microcode solution' to the vulnerability. The updated firmware applies to 6th, 7th and 8th Generation Intel Core devices, and the release sees the company crossing its fingers and hoping that everything works out this time.
This is Intel's second attempt at patching the vulnerability, and this time around both the company and its customers will be praying that the fix for Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips actually does the job.
This is Intel's second attempt at patching the vulnerability, and this time around both the company and its customers will be praying that the fix for Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips actually does the job.
There was a campy, over-the-top parody TV show called "Sledge Hammer" back in the 80s... although even if you're old enough, you may not remember it since it wasn't exactly a roaring success. The "protagonist" (using that term loosely) was a gun-happy cop whose solution to everything involved using his gun. If someone was stealing a candy bar, he might shoot the candy bar out of the perp's hands, for instance. If an old lady missed her bus, he might shoot out the tires of the bus.
Anyway, right now Intel reminds me of the show's intro. Most of it just featured glamour shots of Sledge Hammer's gun... but, at the end, Sledge Hammer says "Trust me, I know what I'm doing", and he shoots - but the bullet miscarries, resulting in a (virtual) bullet hole on your TV screen.
That's Intel, in a nutshell.
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Let me know how it goes, everyone! I'll see you all in therapy...
Take it easy, brah, don't have a meltdown
They are following the Google model of releasing everything as BETA so they have to provide no warranty, and push testing on the unwashed masses. Only after it is deemed successful will they remove the "BETA" moniker. Saves them the trouble.
You are assuming that Intel does testing in the first place. We now know that they prefer to pray than test. "Our Father, who art in Silicon Valley, hallowed be thy chipsets. Thy breadboards come, thy NAND gates done, on XOR as it is in RAM. Give us this day our daily clock speed and lead us not into a Meltdown but deliver us from AMD. For thine is the multi-core, the multi-thread, and the L3 cache forever. Amen."
Remember that there are two groups with similar names, the Cardassians and the Kardashians. One group is vaguely reptilian, have large misshapen heads and an overblown and undeserved sense of superiority. The other group, of course, invaded Bajor.
Great civilizations have lived and died on false theories. Don't mess up mine with a few facts.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Intel processors everywhere.
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