Anyone following the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities?

[zeno]

Yes I’ve opened a thread about that:

Massive CPU security flaws get a name: Meltdown (intel only) and Spectre -- what you need to know

The flaws have received the names Meltdown and Spectre, and both potentially allow hackers to steal personal data from computers, including mobile devices and cloud servers, without leaving a trace. Both holes could be exploited to get access data stored in the memory of other running programs. A practical example would be your passwords stored in a password manager or browser, your personal emails, or business-critical documents. If that isn’t bad enough, patching the issue might slow down the performance of a CPU by up to 35 percent (a realistic worst-case scenario). At the moment we’re running preliminary tests on Windows 10 covering storage, gaming and applications to see what the immed…