Anyone following the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities?

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Pretty major news on the computer front.

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Yes I’ve opened a thread about that:

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Definitely. This is my field of study in school, and I find it fascinating. It’s stressful, though. All we can do is wait for better processors. Oh, well, at least when I get a job, I’ll have more job security.

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There are already safe CPUs, for example all the ARM ones that are not listed in the table here are safe:

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I don’t see any Intel or AMD processors listed here.

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ye it talks about ARM ones, as for intel and amd I read only about Itanium server chips and Atom processors before 2013 safety…

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List of intel affected:

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00088&languageid=en-fr

amd says that only variant one affects their CPUs but it can be resolved by software: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

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Does this mean people will know i visited ChicksWithDixxx.com?

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